Services
The Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics supports translational research across the Stanford community with a variety of services:
Access to Clinical Data
If you need clinical data for either a research project or clinical quality improvement, you can either request a no-cost online Data Review Tool cohort or fund a project to extract data from the EMR.
Biospecimen Banks
SCCI runs several sample freezer tracking databases and is collaborating with HIMS to develop and deploy an easy-to-use search interface.
Outcomes Registries
SCCI is collaborating with the Pain Division of Anesthesia on the Collaborative Health Outcomes Information System (CHOIR) as well as running several other major outcomes registries.
Custom Software
Hire part-time or dedicated software developers to create HIPAA compliant purpose-built research data management systems to exactly meet unique requirements.
Study Databases
Keep your valuable research study data clean and secure using one of our variety of online tools and services for compliant clinical study data management.
Study Enrollment Alerts
Boost study enrollment figures with patient eligibilty reports based on data available in the EMR. Reports can be delivered either in real time or as daily or weekly summaries.
Service costs
Many of our services are offered free of charge to the Stanford research community while others require licensing fees and/or hourly salary coverage for informatics and software development labor costs. The one hour initial consultations are always free, for example, and very large software engineering projects always require salary support, but in between those two extremes there is a wide range of alternatives. Our general rule of thumb is that we require salary support for any project that will take more than 4 hours to complete.
Citations and References
Publications resulting from the use of SCCI tools or consulting services should include a citation to the appropriate supporting grant.
STRIDE
STRIDE should be cited for projects which include the use of any of the following:
- Anonymous Cohort Identification Tool
- Data consultations and clinical queries
- Data extraction services
- STRIDE Clinical Data Review Tool
Please use the following wording:
"STRIDE (Stanford Translational Research Integrated Database Environment) is a research and development project at Stanford University to create a standards-based informatics platform supporting clinical and translational research.
The project described was supported by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant UL1 RR025744. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH."
Please also reference:
- Lowe HJ, Ferris TA, Hernandez PM, Weber SC, STRIDE - An Integrated Standards-Based Translational Research Informatics Platform, AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2009 Nov 14;2009:391-5. (link to article)
REDCap and REDCap Survey
For projects using REDCap or REDCap Survey to collect, manage, or report data, please cite both Stanford CTSA Grant UL1 RR025744 and REDCap. We recommend the following boilerplate language:
"Study data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at the Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture)1 is a secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies, providing: 1) an intuitive interface for validated data entry; 2) audit trails for tracking data manipulation and export procedures; 3) automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to common statistical packages; and 4) procedures for importing data from external sources.
The project described was supported by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant UL1 RR025744. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH."
- 1Paul A. Harris, Robert Taylor, Robert Thielke, Jonathon Payne, Nathaniel Gonzalez, Jose G. Conde, Research electronic data capture (REDCap) - A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support, J Biomed Inform. 2009 Apr;42(2):377-81. (link to article).
CTSA
If your research does not include STRIDE or REDCap but uses other CTSA resources such as Spectrum, biostatistics, security and compliance, etc..., please use the following wording:
"The project described was supported by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant UL1 RR025744. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH."
For K award-supported scholars, the grant number to use is: KL2 RR025743.
For T award-supported trainees, the grant number to use is: TL1 RR025742.