Clinical Research @AHS

33 Pages·2016·0.85 MB·English

by  David Veitch

Clinical Research @AHS
Clinical Research @AHS: Tips and Pointers
for Proposal Development and Initiating
Your Study

Peter Faris, Director, Research Facilitation
Becky Wong, Director, Research Administration
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AHS Research, Innovation and
Analytics (RIA)
Brief Description
Brief Description
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Who We Are: Research Innovation & Analytics
AHS Research Innovation and Analytics has a broad mandate to enable the creation
and sharing of evidence used by health care practitioners to inform decision
making that will achieve better health outcomes.
VP, Research,
Innovation &
Analytics
Data Integration, Innovation and Research
Knowledge Strategic Clinical
Measurement Research Priorities and
Management Networks
and Reporting Operations Implementation
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Who We Are: Research Facilitation
Research Priorities and Implementation (RPI) consists of the following
expert teams designed to enable and enhance quality patient-oriented
research and evaluation.
Research
Innovation and
Analytics
Research
SCN Scientific
Priorities and
Directors
Implementation
Engagement, Workforce
Evaluation Research Knowledge 4
Education and Research and
Services Facilitation Change
Capacity Evaluation
Mandate: to enable the highest standards of research and evaluation, and to
ensure that high quality knowledge is used to inform system sustainability,
better practice and improved health outcomes for Albertans.
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Who We Are: AHS Research Facilitation
Research Facilitation (RF) – Director Peter Faris
– 5 Biostatisticians
– 3 Senior Data Analysts
– 1 Senior Project Manager
– 2 Project Assistants

RF provides consultation and support for research and innovation
projects that are of priority to Alberta Health Services.
We also provide consultation to all researchers that would like to use
AHS data sources for research purposes.
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Why contact us?
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How we can help
• AHS Way-finding
• Connect with SCN leaders
• RF pre and post approval services

EARLY
Contact us – in the proposal development process!

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Services Available
Pre-Ethics
Proposal Development Support
Researcher RF Navigates to
Identifies Internal/External Consultation
Support Needs Services

Features and Benefits:
Access to: Proposal Development Support Data
availability, AHS purchased services, ethics,
budget, data capture options, legal, privacy, etc.
Address issues prior to submission to
ethics/granting agencies

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Research Facilitation Services
Proposal development:
• Assessment of administrative data suitability and availability
– Refine research question to make it suitable for analysis
using administrative data sources
– Identify appropriate administrative data sources
– Identify and operationalize cohorts using administrative
data
– Identify and operationalize outcome measures
– Prepare a data acquisition plan to describe steps to take
in acquiring data
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