About

Why this tool?

Designing research protocols on health data warehouses remains largely non‑standardized: protocols written in prose, variables tracked in spreadsheets, medical codes selected without shared governance. This heterogeneity limits reproducibility, hinders multicentric studies, and makes code sharing across teams harder.

Study Designer offers a graphical interface to author formalized, machine‑readable protocols aligned with OMOP‑CDM — to strengthen access to clinical data warehouses and standardize secondary research.

To dig deeper into clinical data warehouses and study design (in French): Understanding health data warehouses.

Author

Study Designer was created by Boris Delange, Hospital‑University Assistant Physician in medical informatics at Rennes University Hospital and the University of Rennes.

Interoperability with Linkr

Study Designer is interoperable with Linkr: a study designed here can be exported and re‑imported into Linkr to move on to data analysis. For more details, see the Linkr documentation.

Open source

The source code is published under the CeCILL‑B license. Contributions, feedback and bug reports are welcome.