ITHS Rising Star Dr. Kirk Hevener was recently awarded an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) to investigate the bacterial enzyme FabK as a novel, druggable target for selective therapy of Clostridium difficile infections....
Ever wish you could make a certain field read-only? Well, action tags will allow you to do that and more. Action tags are a relatively new addition to REDCap and can be applied to any variable. Each has a corresponding action that is performed when...
Dr. Cynthia Curl's pilot study will follow 20 women through their second and third trimesters to better understand the effect of eating organic and conventional produce during pregnancy....
As Director of Lean Performance, Jennifer Sprecher helps people and teams work smarter, not harder. In this Q&A, she discusses the Lean methodology and how to incorporate it into your daily life....
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....