You are invited to participate in a research study, Epidemiology Design Decision Inventory and Evaluation (EDDIE), being conducted by OMOP.  Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary. 
 
For detailed information go to:  http://omop.fnih.org/ObservationalStudy or download the EDDIE study overview for a printable document.  To get started, go to the web-based survey - EDDIE.  The study will close December 31, 2011.
 
The purpose of the study is to capture (using a web-based survey) and analyze the potential decisions that epidemiologists, statisticians, clinicians, and other researchers would make when designing a study to determine the association between drugs and potential outcomes of interest (for example, ACE inhibitors and Angioedema). We would like to understand what choices researchers would make, what variability in those choices may exist among researchers, what patterns emerge within design choices across drug-outcome pairs, and ultimately how those choices impact the ability to identify true effects, and not identify false findings.
 
Within the survey you will be asked a series of questions about how you would design an epidemiology evaluation study for specific drug-outcome pairs and specific decisions about how that design would be implemented. This is a web-based survey that you can complete within your own setting/location and you can pause at any time; the survey allows you to work straight through or save your answers and complete the survey over time. The time for completing one drug-outcome pair may take approximately ten to fifteen minutes. Therefore, if you choose to complete six drug-outcome pairs it is expected to take less than sixty minutes. If you decide to complete ALL the drug-outcome pairs available within the survey (thirty pairs in total), it may take you several hours. Completing additional drug-outcome pairs is entirely optional.
 
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.
 
For any questions or comments, please email Emily Welebob, welebob [at] omop [dot] org
 
Thank you,
OMOP Research Team