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Have you ever wanted to personalize your surveys to help increase your completion rate? If so, then you might want to try REDCap’s “Piping” feature. Piping allows you to display any entered variable, such as someone’s name, in that survey throughout the survey itself or in the thank you message at the end. For example, you want to say, “Thank...

Has getting institutional review board (IRB) approval ever taken longer than you expected? Have delays cost you time or money you didn’t have? If so, you’re not the only one. Understanding the IRB’s needs and knowing how to meet them can improve IRB turnaround time. Karen Adams and Adrienne Meyer, Regulatory Specialists for the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, offer...

Two papers from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences were accepted for publication and presentation at the American Medical Informatics Association 2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science, which will take place March 23 to 27, 2015, in San Francisco. The ITHS papers examine the secondary research uses of clinical data and also researcher needs and barriers to using electronic health...

The Institute of Translational Health Sciences is pleased to announce the availability of up to six small pilot research grants of $13,000 each to support community- and clinical practice-based research. These grants are intended to foster collaboration between academic investigators and tribes or American Indian or Alaska Native organizations, community-based clinical practices, or clinical health organizations affiliated with ITHS-supported research...

As you know, REDCap allows the ability to send automated survey invitations to participants. Users can also customize the message of the invitations with any message they want. But did you realize that you can also include pictures in these invitations? The trick to adding pictures is to insert HTML into your message. Begin by copying the following text to...

The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today the launch of Participate in Research, a new website that supports health sciences research study recruitment. The site, which was built in partnership with the Office of Research and Graduate Education at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, is intended to meet the needs of local researchers who have been lacking...

The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today that its TL1 Multidisciplinary Pre-doctoral Clinical/Translational Research Training Program is now accepting applications from students in all six University of Washington Health Science schools for its year-long cohort. The first part of the application is due January 9, 2015. The application period for the summer-long TL1 program cohort will begin in mid-January....

November’s Course: What Really Happens at a NIH Study Review What happens to your grant once it gets to a study section? Dr. Paul Martin leverages his experience as a seasoned NIH grant reviewer, including his tenure as Chair of the Cancer Immunopathology and Immunotherapy Study Section, to provide insight into the workings of NIH study sections. Dr. Martin discusses...