Summary
epiCentre is a desktop application for measuring patient reported outcomes for those experiencing persistent pain. Patients send their referrals to clinical/data entry staff, who input the patient details into epiCentre. A questionnaire is generated for the patient and sent to them to complete online via a REDCap instance at UOW, or via a paper form. The patient fills out the questionnaire and staff either tell epiCentre to refresh it's questionnaire data (in the case of questionnaires done online) or manually enter the data into epiCentre (in the case of questionnaires done on paper forms). The workflow of epiCentre allows staff to keep track of where a patient is in their treatment cycle and generate new questionnaires where appropriate. Every 6 months, staff will extract data from epiCentre via an in-built menu and send it to ePPOC via a secure web portal. ePPOC staff will use that information to measure patient outcomes and to compare them against other Australasian services.
Technical Requirements
epiCentre will work on a Windows machine running Windows Vista or newer. It also requires .NET Framework 4.6. While not required, it is also recommended that all computers running epiCentre also have Outlook, Word, Excel, and a PDF reader in order to fully utilise all of epiCentre's features. Citrix setups, or similar, are also compatible with epiCentre.
Any version of SQL Server from 2008R2 (express, full, or Azure) onwards can be used for the database.
Installation size and data storage requirements
Using 2.2.5 of epiCentre as a measure, epiCentre takes up about ~145MB on a computer.
See the below table for estimated database sizing:
| Table | Estimated records (per patient) | Size (KB per record) | Total size (KB per patient) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient | 1 | .23 | .23 |
| Episode | 3 | .16 | .48 |
| Pathway | 9 (3 per episode) | .08 | .72 |
| Service Event | 30 (10 per episode) | .08 | 2.4 |
Questionnaire | 15 (5 per episode) | .76 | 11.4 |
| Total | 15.23KB per patient |
If we assume a system of 1000 patients, that's ~15MB, not including any overhead involved in SQL creation, nor the relatively static tables within epiCentre (code sets, users, facility information, etc).
Installation
For information on installation, please see New install
Data Security
For information on data security, please see epiCentre and your data.