CCORDA Scope of Services

The CCORDA will coordinate an array of support services for collaborative projects, including:

• Research Design
• Data Acquisition and Management
• Research Ethics
• Analysis

Research Design

• • Participate in protocol and grant development
  • Study design
    • Laboratory based studies
    • Clinical Trials
    • Epidemiological studies
    • Health Services Research studies
  • Study conduct
  • Sample size calculations
  • Qualitative study design
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Statistical analysis plans
  • Protocol coordination
  • Randomization sequences
  • Design of secondary analyses of complex survey data

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Data Acquisition and Management

• • Data analysis
    • Biostatistical analysis
    • Epidemiological studies
    • Health Services Research studies
  • Data management
  • Data monitoring
  • Data query reports
  • Develop, monitor and manage study databases
  • Develop web-based surveys
  • Develop case report forms
  • Develop web-based data entry programs
  • Program scannable case report forms
  • Perform complex data acquisition, merging and processing

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Research Ethics

• • Proactive/preventive consultation
  • Access for investigators for emerging ethical issues

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Analysis

• • Statistical analysis and interpretation
  • Participate in manuscript writing
  • Secondary analyses of complex survey data
  • Geographic information system (GIS)
  • Economic evaluation of health care
  • Needs assessment and evaluation
  • Analysis of experiments producing high-dimensional ‘omic’ data (i.e. Affymetrics/Illumina Microarray, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), Proteomics, Methylation)
  • Analysis of RT-PCR data
  • Analysis of Genome Wide Association (GWAS) data and candidate gene/SNP data
  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Mixed methods analysis

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