The OMOP Epidemiology Design Decision Inventory and Evaluation (EDDIE) is now launched. EDDIE seeks to address three research questions among participants with experience in observational studies using databases:

1. What study design choices do researchers make when implementing an analysis of a potential drug-outcome association?
2. How do study design choices differ across different drug-outcome pairs?
3. How do expert-based decisions impact performance in discriminating between true effects and negative controls?

WHY SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY?

FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES! Asking how you would solve a problem might lead to solutions previously not considered.

MAKE A CONTRIBUTION. Your voice matters and this is a way to express your decisions and opinions and be a part of a real-time, ongoing scientific research project among scientists.

RESULTS. You will receive individualized reports that compare your responses to an anonymized composite summary of all respondents for the same drug-outcome pairs.

CHANCES TO WIN! There will be prize drawings at different levels depending on how many survey sections you complete. Respondents who complete all six pairs within a group will be entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card worth one hundred dollars. After completing the first group of drug-outcome pairs, respondents will be invited to repeat the exercise for four other groups of six drug-outcome pairs. Respondents who complete all five groups (thirty drug-outcome pairs) will be entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card worth one thousand dollars.

To find out more information and to get started, go to the web-based survey - EDDIE. The Indiana University Institutional Review Board has reviewed this project, Protocol #: 1107006236; IRB-03, IRB00000228. The study has been extended and will now close on January 31, 2012.

Please share this information with your colleagues so they can also participate in the survey. If you have any questions, please contact contact OMOP.