Use of electronic data capture in a clinical trial on infant feeding.

Background/objective: The European Childhood Obesity Project is a multi-centre double-blind randomised clinical trial in five countries testing whether protein intake in early life is related to later obesity risk. We use electronic data capture (EDC) in this trial and report here on our experience with the method.

Subjects/methods: Data capture for the first two study years was done with 10 notebooks, which were installed with the RDE (Remote Data Entry) programme Clindoc.