The CREST Dashboard is a comprehensive, multilevel data warehouse that facilitates evaluation of the cancer burden and disparities in the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) catchment area. CREST integrates data from the Duke Cancer Registry, Duke EHR, state cancer registries (NC, SC, VA), and contextual measures of social determinants of health (SDOH).
The DCI catchment area covers 104 counties, and a total population of 9.7 million individuals in NC (67 counties), SC (6 counties), and VA (31 counties).
All DCI members can access the CREST Dashboard to support their research or clinical efforts, however, users must log in via DHTS vpn in order to access the dashboard. We are careful to maintain confidentiality and data security and to do so, any cell size less than 11 is suppressed to protect patient privacy.
Duke Health IRB has reviewed and approved the dashboard ( Pro00108416).
Please request access via this link, and we will follow up with access instructions. To better understand the context for the dataset, we highly encourage completing the COEE Foundational Training.
The CREST team can be reached via email at dcicoe@duke.edu.
The current DCI data available on the CREST Dashboard reflects data from 2014 to 2019. Once 2020 DCI data is available then, the census data from 2020 can also be incorporated and the dashboard updated.
All of the information obtained for the tumor registry is abstracted from the medical record and not self-reported.
The Dashboard provides a snapshot of our patients seen at Duke from 2014 to 2019, we urge caution in making projections beyond what is reflected in the dashboard.
All DCI members will have access to the final version of the dashboard within Duke, as long as they have passed the HIPAA compliance training and are able to get on the Duke VPN/are using an on-site device.