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About ITHS The Institute of Translational Health Sciences is dedicated to speeding science to clinic practice for the benefit of patients and communities throughout Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, (WWAMI) and beyond. ITHS promotes this translation of scientific discovery to practice by fostering innovative research, cultivating multi-disciplinary research partnerships, and ensuring a pipeline of next generation researchers through robust educational...

Monitoring Services ITHS offers clinical study monitoring to help investigators who are required by FDA or their funding agency to have ongoing independent review of their research records. ITHS monitoring services helps clinical investigators to: Maintain compliance with international, federal, state, local, institutional, and protocol-driven regulatory requirements for clinical research Ensure the accuracy of research data, including source document verification,...

Auditing and Quality Assurance Review Services ITHS offers auditing and quality assurance review services for departments and investigators who are interested in one-time data checks. The goal of these programs is to ensure your study is run efficiently and effectively to produce high-quality data. ITHS Auditing & Quality Assurance Review Services helps departments and individual investigators to: Prepare for inspections...

Recruitment Resources The purpose of clinical research is to gather data and answer questions that will be used to improve human health. However, slow participant accrual can result in studies closing prior to completion or remaining open past intended completion dates. These accrual challenges can thereby expose participants and volunteers to potential study risks without contributing any new knowledge to...

Helpful Links to Resources We have compiled links to a number of helpful links and resources in this section of our website. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to suggest other materials for us to add. Are you not finding the right facility or resource to meet your research needs? ITHS is pleased to offer a...

NIH Guidance on When Data and Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) are Needed The NIH requires a data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) for Phase III clinical investigations (or any multi-site clinical trial) involving interventions that entail potential risk to participants. For phase I and II trials, a DSMB may be appropriate if the studies have multiple clinical sites, are blinded,...

Data and Safety Monitoring Plans The Data and Safety Monitoring Plan (DSMP) helps ensure the safety of participants, the validity of data, and the appropriate termination of studies for which significant benefits or risks have been uncovered or when it appears that the investigation cannot be concluded successfully. Clinical Research Center (CRC) requirements for data and safety monitoring are based...

Frequently Asked Questions This page is meant to answer questions specific to the ITHS REDCap installation and its governing policies. We recommend you review the dedicated REDCap FAQ page embedded in REDCap if you have a general question about how to accomplish certain tasks. Please note that a REDCap account is required to access those materials. 1) New Users How...

REDCap Advanced Features Plugins Plugins are little pieces of code that add extra functionality to the “vanilla” version of REDCap. These plugins are created by the global REDCap consortium and need to be installed individually. Plugins are first tested on the ITHS REDCap Development instance (rcdev.iths.org). After being approved, these plugins are then installed on the main REDCap production instance....