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...
Understanding the responsibility of each cell on an individual level can open the door to targeted disease diagnoses and treatment. Currently, cost, complexity, and sheer volume of cells can limit a researcher’s ability to study what role a given cell will play in development and...
The Summer Institute in Statistics for Clinical Research (SISCR) is designed to introduce participants to state-of-the-art methodology for biomedical studies, including clinical trials and observational studies. Participants choose from a series of one-day and two-day modules and design a program best-suited to their interests. Prerequisites are...
Answering complex healthcare questions often requires input from many disciplines. For Christy McKinney, PhD, MPH, researcher and associate professor of pediatrics in craniofacial medicine at the UW and investigator at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, this meant reaching out to programming and data experts to design a...
The Clinical Research Ethics Consultation Collaborative receives recognition for their publication in the American Journal of Bioethics. Bioethics consultations have become a routine part of clinical medicine. But in in medical research, the system of review and oversight for clinical trials relies primarily on Institutional...
Overview In 2018, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) will present the FNIH Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists (Trailblazer Prize), which recognizes the outstanding contributions of early career clinician-scientists whose work has the potential to or has led to innovations in patient care. This...
When a project is moments away from completion, or a new question arises during the experiment, a little bit of extra funding can go a long way. This is the inspiration behind the ITHS Catalyst program....