OCTRI Research Services
Proposal Development (and Study Design Consultations):
- Letter of Support
- Data Safety Monitoring Plan (DSMP) Review and Consultation
- Experimental Design & Laboratory Expertise Consultation
- Bionutriton Consultation - Protocol design, methodology & data analysis
- Evaluation Core Services
- Statistical Genetics Consultation: Experimental Design & Analysis
- Bioinformatics Consultation
- Statistical Support - Sample size calculations, data analysis plan & protocol design consultations
- Identifying potential numbers of eligible participants in Epic - Cohort Discovery
Regulatory & Study Start-Up Services:
- Regulatory Consultation
- Investigations New Drug (IND) & Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Consultation
- Data Safety Monitoring Plans (DSMP) Review and Consultation
- Study Coordination Services for start up
Data Collection & Management Services (including REDCap):
- REDCap database - hosting a database you build yourself
- REDCap database - hire OCTRI to build your database for you
- Custom Databases
- Research Data Warehouse (RDW) - Epic data for research
- Cohort Discovery - self-services method of creating a query for Epic data. Provide you with deidentified total counts of people who meet your criteria.
- Data Management Consultation
Data Analysis Services:
- Statistical support
- Free Drop in sessions for Statistical Support
- Statistical support for genetic data
- Bioinformatics Support
- Evaluation Core
Participant-based Services (Including the Clinical and Translational Research Center: CTRC):
Recruitment Resources:
- ResearchMatch - recruitment
- Research Volunteer Registry & Biorepository - recuitment and samples
- Cohort Discovery - self-serve identification of potential research participants for recruitment using a query interface to Epic data
- Research Data Warehouse (RDW) - Epic data for research for recruitment
- Epic for Research - How to use Epic for Scheduling, Ordering, Workbench reporting, recruitment, and more
- Study Coordinator efforts for recruitment purposes
- Recruitment Consultation (provided at no cost) - meet with our recruitment specialist to discuss your specific study
Bionutrition:
- Body Composition Measurements (anthropometrics, bioelectrical impedance, DEXA, BOD POD)
- Energy Expenditure Measurements (indirect calorimetry, activity monitoring)
- Food intake & Supplement Assessment
- Nutrition Education & Counseling
- Meals, Snacks, Specific Research Meals, Diet & Feeding Studies
- Kitchen Services - rent professional kitchen space
- BOD POD - available to researchers and also to the public
Nursing:
- Clinical Space - inpatient & outpatient
- Cardiac Monitoring (ECG)
- Insulin Clamp
- Glucose Tolerance Testing: Intravenous, Oral & Meal
- IV starts & Medication Infusions
- Phlebotomy & Specimen Collection (including, catheter access - Groshon, Port-a-Cath, PICC, Hickman)
- Point of Care Testing: CBG, Hemoglobin, HCG & Urine Dip
- Vital Signs & Physical Measurements
Lab:
- Clinicial Specimen Processing, Storage & Shipping
- DNA & RNA Extraction & Purificiation
- Genetic Analysis
- Laboratory Assays & Analysis
Study Coordination:
- May include: recruitment, consenting, scheduling, study document management, regulatory activities, study procedures, survey administration & data entry