Feb 08, 2022
Protocol 1: Clinical and demographic information
- Sophie Adler1,
- Mathilde Ripart2,
- Meld Project2,
- Konrad Wagstyl2
- 1Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry, UCL;
- 2University College London, University of London
Protocol Citation: Sophie Adler, Mathilde Ripart, Meld Project, Konrad Wagstyl 2022. Protocol 1: Clinical and demographic information. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bws3pegn
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: In development
We are still developing and optimizing this protocol
Created: July 22, 2021
Last Modified: February 08, 2022
Protocol Integer ID: 51771
Funders Acknowledgements:
Rosetrees Trust
Grant ID: A2665
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Abstract
The MELD Project is an international collaboration aiming to create open-access, robust and generalisable tools for FCD detection.
This MRI data protocol details
1) How to get access to the MELD Focal Epilepsies Redcap database
2) Inclusion criteria for the study
3) How to fill in the participant information questionnaire
PLEASE NOTE: To take part in the MELD Project each site will be required to 1) sign our memorandum of understanding and 2) provide a letter from the head of department or local R&D office confirming that they have obtained appropriate ethical approval to share the anonymised data with UCL.
Guidelines
If you have any questions or run into problems, please feel free to contact the MELD project: (meld.study@gmail.com)
Before start
Contact the meld.study@gmail.com in order to
1) Ensure you have the necessary ethical approval to take part in the study
2) Obtain you site code
3) Get access to the RedCap questionnaire
Access to the RedCap Database
Access to the RedCap Database
Anonymised clinical and demographic information for all participants should be entered by filling in the participant information survey on Redcap.
Each participating site needs to send us the institutional email addresses of the individuals who will be carrying out data entry. Accounts on RedCap will be set up by the study co-ordinators to give you access to the participant questionnaire.
Please note researchers at your institution will only be able to see / review / edit records that have been created by your site.
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
- Any age > 0
- 3D T1-weighted MRI scan (either 1.5T, 3T or 7T)
- A radiological and / or histopathological diagnosis of:
- Focal cortical dysplasia
- Hippocampal sclerosis / granule cell dispersion
- DNET / ganglioglioma / other low-grade tumour
- Polymicrogyria
- Periventricular nodular heterotopia
- Cavernoma
- Gliosis
- Non-specific pathology
- mild malformation of cortical development
OR
- MRI-negative, unoperated focal epilepsy
Controls can be healthy controls or patients scanned for headache with a normal MRI
Exclusion criteria:
- Meningoangiomatosis
- Hemimegalencephaly
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Infarcts
- Rasmussen's encephalitis
- Tuberous sclerosis
MELD anonymous IDs
MELD anonymous IDs
Each participant should have been given an anonymous ID according to the following naming structure:
MELD_[site code]_[patient/control]_number
[site code] = site identifier which will be provided to you e.g. H1 for Great Ormond Street Hospital
[patient/control] = P if patient, C if control.
Examples of IDs:
MELD_H1_P_0001
MELD_H1_C_0001
If participant was included in the FCD study and has an ID such as MELD_H1_15T_FCD_0001, the ID should be kept the same. I.e. Use the original FCD flag and scanner flag
If control was included in the FCD study and has an ID such as MELD_H1_3T_C_0001, the ID should be kept the same.
[number] = 0001, 0002 etc.
Examples of old participant IDs from the FCD study :
MELD_H1_15T_P_0001
MELD_H1_3T_C_0002
MELD_H2_3T_FCD_0042
Please make sure to securely keep a spreadsheet at your centre which links the anonymous IDs used in this study back to the IDENTIFIABLE patient data. THIS MUST NOT BE SHARED and should be kept securely
Filling in Participant information on the RedCap Database
Filling in Participant information on the RedCap Database
Login to UCL RedCap (redcap.slms.ucl.ac.uk) using your login details
Click on My Projects
Click on MELD Project: Focal Epilepsies
Click on Add / Edit Records
Under "Enter a new or existing MELD Project Anonymous Participant ID" type the anonymous ID of the participant you want to enter data for
e.g. MELD_H1_P_0001
This can either be a new participant or you can edit the information of a previously entered participant.
To edit the participant, you will need to click "status"
You will now be able to fill in the questionnaire:
Here is an example
Filling out seizure outcome data:
Some centres use ENGEL outcome and others use the ILAE classification system. Please fill in
1. Whether the patient was seizure free (no auras) at 1 year follow-up
2. Whether the patient was seizure free (with auras) at 1 year follow-up
3. ENGEL or ILAE outcome at 1 year follow-up
4. ENGEL or ILAE outcome at most recent follow-up
There is no need to provide both ENGEL and ILAE unless you easily have this information.
When you have finished filling out the questionnaire, save and exit the form.
If you partially fill out a form, under form status ensure the box states "incomplete". This will allow you to reenter the record and edit the information at a later date.
Do not click complete until you have filled in all information.
If you have any questions about how to fill out the questionnaire - please contact meld.study@gmail.com
or post a comment on this protocol!