Working with Population Health Sciences
The Population Health Sciences center offers assistance in three critical areas related to pediatric health. The center strives to assess population health and how to improve patient experience, determining whether patients are receiving the right treatment at the right time, for the right outcomes, and how fundamentally clinical practice can be changed. Services offered by the PopSci center include:
Project management and study initiation
ICCTR staff can serve as overall project manager and/or study coordinator to work closely with the PI to plan study start-up and serve as front line manager for all aspects of study implementation. ICCTR Project Managers will supervise study staff, coordinate across departments and divisions within BCH and across hospitals for those studies operating at multiple locations. ICCTR staff can also provide templates for and/or assist in the development of case report forms to allow for the efficient and consistent data collection and to facilitate the development of a study database based on the study protocol.
Case report form design
ICCTR staff can provide templates for and also assist in the development of case report forms to allow for efficient and consistent data collection and to facilitate the development of a study database based on the study protocol.
Survey and questionnaire design
ICCTR staff advises investigators on all aspects of survey design. This includes determining the appropriate sampling procedure, selecting the data collection method (i.e., in-person or telephone interviews, mail surveys, web surveys), and determining detailed survey implementation features. Questionnaires can be reviewed with regard to their design and the wording of the questions. If new measures need to be created, ICCTR staff can advise investigators on how to establish reliable and valid measures. In accordance with best survey practices, all changes are made to minimize survey errors (sampling, coverage, nonresponse, measurement, and processing errors).
Web-based surveys
ICCTR staff provides guidance to investigators with regard to the implementation of web-based surveys. Based on the complexity of the survey ICCTR staff can recommend different web survey software for programming web surveys. ICCTR has also staff available to program web surveys. As with CRFs, these surveys must meet a minimal design standard for ICCTR programming services.
Survey data analysis
In general, ICCTR staff can help prepare quality-control and survey implementation reports including descriptive tables, graphs, and other statistical analyses. All report methods are current with best practices in survey research. In case the survey protocol included complex sampling methods (strata and clusters). ICCTR staff can perform statistical analyses that account for the complexity of the sampling methods to guarantee efficient estimates. Depending on the amount of data available for respondents and non respondents, we can provide non response bias analyses.
To request services, complete a request services form. A team member will contact you within 10 business days of submission.
