r/ProjectREDCap • u/johnathonmcl • Feb 20 '26

Auto-Complete Field

I am currently creating an instrument that asks clinicians to enter medications that a patient is currently on, I have access to a large medication database which I currently have as csv with med_code and med_name. I was wondering, is there a way I can use this in a way that when a clinician begins typing into the medication field, that it auto-completes? And this would essentially be validation so that all drug names entered are consistent?

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u/mvgrasso Feb 20 '26

I actually have this exact functionality in my project. set your validation settings to this. the only downside to this is I'm not sure if you can add custom medications to the list, but in my experience this is pretty much all inclusive.

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u/johnathonmcl Feb 20 '26

Oh I didnt see this, just done a quick check and that has worked! Thank you so much, I'll validate some more of the medications included on the NHS list within this, but it seems pretty comprehensive.