Participate in Research, a free, web-based study recruitment tool from ITHS, has helped 10 studies meet recruitment goals since the site relaunched last October. We talked to three study coordinators about how the site is helping them find study participants faster and easier....
University of Washington researchers and a local nonprofit are working to develop a cleaner, more efficient cookstove that could improve millions of lives. They engaged the Institute of Translational Health Sciences Research Coordination Center to help them gain the necessary Institutional Review Board (IRB) modifications...
Having a progress bar can be a nice visual aid for survey respondents and may help reduce survey dropout. While REDCap doesn’t have the capability to create a progress bar out of the box, you can add one with some clever use of HTML. Learn...
ITHS KL2 Scholar Dr. Abby Rosenberg is teaching teens how to improve their coping skills and overcome the hardships of serious illness....
In this Q&A, Dr. Allison Cole, Associate Director of the ITHS WPRN, discusses processes the Data QUEST Coordinating Center created to help guide electronic health record data extraction....
Drs. Natalia Murinova and Melissa Schorn partnered with ITHS to create a new patient questionnaire that gathers relevant information before patients arrive at their office....
For students who have an interest in both clinical care and research, the ITHS TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program provides a bridge between the two fields. UW Health Sciences NewsBeat recently interviewed three UW students in the 2016 TL1 cohort about their road...
It seems simple. Write some questions. Paste them into REDCap. Hit send. But anyone who has written a survey knows it is not that easy. This guide will help you write and design REDCap surveys that engage respondents and help you get the data you...
Investigators usually need research support staff for their studies. The question is: should they hire their own staff or use a staffing resource like the ITHS Research Coordination Center? Learn the answer in this Q&A....
ITHS has accepted 12 University of Washington students into its summer TL1 Multidisciplinary Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Training Program. The program offers a unique cohort-based training experience designed to create new leaders in clinical and translational research....