Bryan Comstock, MS, a senior biostatistician and consultant with ITHS, was recently highlighted by the UW Department of Biostatistics for his role in developing Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills (C-SATS), a new platform for evaluating surgical skills. The article titled, “Biostat grad among co-founders of...
Have you ever wanted to emphasize text in your survey to alert your study staff or highlight an important question? REDCap does not have this customization built into the online designer, but you can add HTML to customize your forms and surveys....
Investigators from across all disciplines of clinical and basic research came together to celebrate translational science. The second annual Translational Science Expo welcomed over 100 people to learn about ongoing projects and share in recent successes....
ITHS is excited to offer a two-day Introduction to Clinical Research Boot Camp for faculty, staff, and post-doctoral fellows. This intensive workshop is designed to provide foundational knowledge in designing and managing a clinical trial for researchers who are new to the translational process....
Translational science is a unique part of medical research that focuses on moving new ideas and inventions from the investigation to saving lives. Researchers need a flexible funding mechanisms to help transition their work along this path. To help fill this gap, ITHS offers four...
The NRC is pleased to announce the availability of noncompeting administrative supplements from the NIH/National Institute on Aging to fund projects that focus on several key areas....
Many study teams face their greatest challenge of all during clinical trial recruitment. Too often hardships in finding trial participants can raise costs or result in studies closing before the target data is collected. ITHS aims to reduce this barrier by providing recruitment support in...
The CTSA Trial Innovation Network (TIN) aims to make multi-site clinical trials as efficient as possible by reducing effort and cost. To further this mission, the TIN produces a regular webinar series to disseminate novel techniques and trainings to research teams. ...
ITHS is helping facilitate a major undertaking by Fred Hutch, UW Medicine, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to unify their clinical trials management through a new system. We are pleased to announce the refreshed website for the Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) Program Office....
Have you ever heard the advice: “When in doubt, choose option B”? This is based on the idea that test creators have a tendency to make option B the “correct” answer on a significant amount of the questions. Using the @RANDOMORDER action tag scrambles the...