03 Nov ITHS Wins Four MarCom Awards in Digital Media
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences was announced as a winner of two Platinum- and two Gold-level 2015 MarCom Awards in digital media for its website....
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29 Oct Japanese Researchers Visit SCRI and ITHS to Discuss Research Ethics Repository
Dr. Inoue and Dr. Aizawa plan to use the insights gained from the visit to help build an inter-institutional research ethics consultation service repository in Japan....
27 Oct Five Study Recruitment Tips from a Research Coordinator
Looking to increase clinical research study enrollment? An ITHS research coordinator shares his top tips for recruiting study participants and why research coordinators should not be afraid of marketing....
23 Oct Studying the Impact of Opioid Overdose Prevention
Researchers from the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute are studying how education, counseling, and take-home Naloxone kits impact opioid overdose numbers....
21 Oct REDCap Tip of the Month: Adding Project Notes
Frequent users of REDCap can run into challenges differentiating one project from another as their project list grows. This issue most often occurs when they have multiple projects with similar names or went through multiple iterations to develop a single project. To address this issue, REDCap...
20 Oct Dr. Bonnie Ramsey, ITHS Co-PI, Named to National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Bonnie W. Ramsey, Co-PI of ITHS and a UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s pediatrician, has been elected as a member to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ramsey is a worldwide expert in cystic fibrosis clinical care and research....
19 Oct Expanding Fibromyalgia Trial Recruitment with EMR Data
Dr. Dennis Turk is leading a multi-site clinical trial examining treatment options for patients with fibromyalgia. When Dr. Turk encountered recruitment challenges, he was able to work with ITHS to boost his monthly recruitment numbers by 95% with the help of biomedical informatics....
13 Oct Q&A: Michael Donahue Talks Study Recruitment
In this Q&A, Michael Donahue shares a number of study recruitment tips he has learned over the course of his 15-year career as a research coordinator....
06 Oct Beating hypertension: How one community clinic went from worst to first
Helping patients get their high blood pressure under control is a challenging goal for primary care practices everywhere. For 2014 Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion award winner Peninsula Community Health Services (PCHS) in Bremerton, Wash., this goal was especially important. More than 26 percent of...
05 Oct Local Study Recruitment Site Gets a New Look
Efforts to recruit participants for local clinical research studies got a boost today with the launch of the new Participate in Research website. This site, which was originally released by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences late last year, has been redesigned to improve the...