Better Tools for Multi-site Research

This brochure-style publication provides a complete yet concise overview of special challenges that can arise when collecting data on sensitive topics and offers practical advice on issues such as setting boundaries, dealing with angry or depressed respondents, interviewer safety and confidentiality.   Click here to download.

From Clinical Trials Networks Best Practices (CTNBP) of Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).  https://www.ctnbestpractices.org/sites/therapeuticarea

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This guide is intended to assist researchers with the design and implementation of multi-site studies involving participants from the HMO Research Network (HMORN). Various strategies to optimize recruitment and data collection in a multi-site environment (mail, telephone and web) are addressed in the guide.  Click here to download.

From the HMO Research Network Collaboration Toolkit.  www.hmoresearchnetwork.org

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This manual is intended to be an introduction to interviewing for people who have never been formally trained in survey research telephone interviewing. Topics covered are professional ethics, introduction to interviewing, general interviewing practices, active listening, refusal avoidance, and additional considerations for in-person interviewing. A section on in-person interviewing is also included.  Click here to download.

From the HMO Research Network Collaboration Toolkit.  www.hmoresearchnetwork.org

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These data standardization recommendations for several commonly abstracted chart variables were developed by the HMO Research Network's Coordinated Clinical Studies Network.  Click here to download.

From the HMO Research Network Collaboration Toolkit.  www.hmoresearchnetwork.org

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A sample instruction manual for chart abstraction.   Click here to download.

Courtesy of Barry Carter, PharmD. Professor and Associate Head for Research, Department of Family Medicine, Carver College of Medicine.  http://icts.uiowa.edu/taxonomy/term/34

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This is an example of a nicely formatted medical history chart abstraction form.F131  Click here to download.

From Clinical Trials Networks Best Practices (CTNBP) of Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).  https://www.ctnbestpractices.org/sites/enrollment/medical_surgical_history_checklist.doc/view

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This guide was created to help staff put Data Use Agreements (DUAs) in place for multi-site studies within the HMO Research Network. It includes information about when DUAs are needed, the steps involved in putting a DUA in place, tools and resources related to DUAs and PHI disclosures, and best practices and common pitfalls.  Click here to download.

From the HMO Research Network Collaboration Toolkit.  www.hmoresearchnetwork.org

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This is an example of a Data Use Agreement template that can be used when a subcontract is already in place with the data recipient. Because the focus remains solely on the 5 federally required elements of a DUA, only a single page is needed.   Click here to download.

Courtesy of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Department of Population Medicine.  http://populationmedicine.org/content/default.asp

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This is an example of a Data Use Agreement template in which a Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) is to be sharing a limited dataset with a party with whom they already have an independent contractor agreement in place.   Click here to download.

Courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP NRN).  http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/research/natnet.html

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This example of an SOP from the Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP NRN) provides an example of the level of granularity that may be found in practice-based research networks and similar settings.  Click here to download.

Courtesy of Wilson Pace, MD and the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network (AAFP NRN)   http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/research/natnet.html

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