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...
02 Oct Q&A: Bas de Veer Talks REDCap 2015 Conference Highlights
Bas de Veer, REDCap Administrator for the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, recently attended the REDCap 2015 Conference hosted by the Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute. We had an opportunity to catch up with Mr. de Veer for a few minutes post-conference to hear...
29 Sep Healthy Hearts Northwest: Better care for your patients, MOC credit for you
Healthier patients and happier docs: now it’s possible with Healthy Hearts Northwest. Healthy Hearts Northwest is a three-year initiative to help primary care practices in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho achieve better heart health outcomes, earn Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit, and leverage quality improvement support...
18 Sep UW Students Get Crash Course in Tech Commercialization
For 10 weeks this summer, a group of University of Washington graduate students spent more than 30 hours each week trying to answer a single question: would this product do well in the marketplace? Their answers were part of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences'...