I'm taking full ownership of some research data, and today I'm creating a new, less disorganized schema (Excel file lol) for tracking patient enrollment, testing, results, followups and data entry. The system we are using now is a patchwork creature that Mary Shelley would recoil from in terror. It started as a template created by some Ivy-leaguers who would never actually participate in the project I'm working on, and quickly ballooned as research coordinators (Like myself) found that they needed to keep track of more and more things, which has resulted in a document that is really really time consuming to use, and never looks good. Unless of course someone up in clinic decides they want to participate, in which case that whole plan get's thrown out the window.