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Upcoming Live Training: Standardize Your Research with the NIH Common Data Element Repository

Upcoming Live Training: Standardize Your Research with the NIH Common Data Element Repository. NLM Tech Bull. 2024 Nov-Dec;(461):b5.

November 08, 2024 [posted]
January 07, 2025 [Editor's Note]

[Editor's note added January 07, 2025:  A recording of the webinar is available.]

Common data elements (CDEs) are standardized, precisely defined questions paired with a specific set of allowable responses, used systematically across different sites, studies, or clinical trials to ensure consistent data collection. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Data Element Repository (CDE-R) provides access to CDEs that have been recommended or required by NIH Institutes and Centers for use in research and for other purposes.

Through live demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this course will introduce you to CDEs and the NIH CDE-R.

The course begins with an in-depth introduction to CDEs and examples of how researchers are already using them. Then, you'll see how to search the repository and practice searching on your own. CDE-R staff will be in attendance to answer your questions.

Consider attending this course if you:

  • Want to standardize the data you collect so it can be easily shared with colleagues and other researchers.
  • Have been awarded a grant that requires the use of CDEs.
  • Have heard that CDEs can be part of a compliant data management and sharing plan.
  • Assist researchers with the research data management lifecycle.

Date and Time: December 12, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. EST

Duration: 90 minutes

Register Here

Continuing Education:

  • This class has been approved for 1.5 Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education credits.
  • This class qualifies for the MLA Data Services Specialization (DSS).