Clinical audits should be regularly undertaken by all health professionals. They involve a review of some aspect of clinical practice and represent an essential first step to identifying problems and inefficiencies for improvement. This handbook is an opportunity to support audit processes for those needing training or a refresher in methodology. It is also useful for those planning to conduct other types of surveys. The Handbook is a deliberately generic and open access guide that is suitable for students and staff from any clinical discipline
This contents offers an introduction to the basic concepts of building a database in REDCap and is most useful to anyone building a new project, or those tasked with managing or maintaining an existing database.
This content offers a comprehensive look at creating a database and using surveys, and builds upon contents from the REDCap Basics Workshop Training Manual providing an overview of the advanced functionality that REDCap offers. It is recommended that readers be familiar with navigating and using REDCap for project set-up for best use of this resource.
Research Fundamentals provides a practical introduction to research and examines why we do research, and the steps in the research process. This seminar includes how to decide whether an idea is worth pursuing, through to putting together a quality protocol, and also covers your responsibilities as a researcher.
Writing is the most used channel for communication of ideas, research, and findings. Being able to have quality and effective scientific writing is a fundamental part of successful research translation. This seminar provides a practical overview of scientific writing; including principles of good writing, how to get started, article structure and organisation, how to negotiate authorship, and the publication process.
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) provides the ethical and scientific standards and guidelines by which all research is conducted, and is a requirement for all researchers to know and apply. This seminar covers key components of GCP including responsibilities, approvals, informed consent, document and data management, and reporting of adverse effects.
All new research project applications must cover requirements for both ethics and governance. This seminar focuses on the general principles and responsibilities related to research. governance, and provide practical tips for preparation of governance applications. It also covers recent changes to state and national governance frameworks and implications for researchers
As a researcher, it is difficult to reach the public and broadcast your work. Building and maintaining your "brand" will help set you apart. This seminar provides the tools to connect with other researchers, build your network, and in the long run, effectively translate your research to a wider audience.
The Department of Health WA now preferentially supports REDCap use and many health service providers are switching to REDCap as the database of choice for safely entering, storing and reporting on data. This presentation covers how to access REDCap, basic REDCap functionality, and where to go for further assistance and resources and is presented by staff from The Telethon Kids Institute Biometrics team, which provides access to REDCap for all Telethon Kids, Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS), and Perth Children's Hospital based researchers.
Surveys, including clinical audits, are one of the most commonly conducted clinical research projects. There is a lot more to doing these well than meets the eye. This seminar provides practical help for planning and conducting surveys. It includes good survey design, approval pathways, sampling and administration methods, writing high quality questionnaires & data collection instruments, maximising response rates and reducing data errors.
This seminar covers the importance of understanding the rights and responsibilities of both supervisors and supervisees doing research, whether for a formal degree or a small project, and how to get the best out of both roles. It also provides practical tips related to the selection of suitable research projects, supervision frequency and time allocation, different supervision styles, remote supervision and working with multiple supervisors.
This seminar covers fundamental statistical concepts for clinical researchers, including why we use significance testing, how to interpret confidence intervals and p-values, how sample size and variability affect results, why bias and confounding factors are important considerations in designing studies, and when to seek statistical support.
This seminar provides an overview of how to perform sample size calculations for different research study designs and demonstrates how to use free "PS" software. It also covers issues specific to clinical trials and assists researchers to identify situations where the best course of action is to consult a statistician.
Ensuring that research findings are translated into practice involves a systematic approach from the beginning when you are designing your research. Implementation science bridges the gap between developing and evaluating effective interventions and implementation and de-implementation in routine practice. This seminar covers key elements of implementation research; theoretical approaches, research designs, involvement of stakeholders, behaviour change interventions.
Every researcher should be actively involving consumer or community members to improve quality and increase impact of their research. Community involvement is increasingly a requirement for funding agencies. This seminar provides a practical introduction and will cover basic principles of consumer and community involvement, the benefits and barriers, and what to put in place to get started.
Good data are crucial to a successful project with impact. This seminar explains why we need good data management practices, outlines researcher responsibilities, and provides practical data management planning strategies, including database design and development, data entry, cleaning and storage to ensure the most robust and safe data possible.
Understanding how to work with the media is essential and a critical responsibility for all researchers, whether it's the newspaper, TV, radio, or social media. This seminar will provide practical techniques on working with the media and ensuring your bottom line is delivered in an engaging, accurate, and responsible way.
Effective presentation of research results is a key component of research translation, a moral responsibility to undertake for your research participants, funders and institution, and an opportunity to get important feedback. This seminar includes a range of tips on choosing and organising materials, delivery styles and techniques, preparing for questions, gaining confidence, and how to run a session effectively.
Systematic reviews play an important role in health research. They provide a high level summary of studies and can inform policy and practice relevant to a particular area of inquiry. Understanding review methodologies is useful for those who wish to undertake a systematic review, or just read one. This seminar provides an overview of several types of reviews, along with simple strategies to focus a review and support review methodology.
This seminar provides an overview of important considerations for engaging Indigenous people in research, including understanding cultural differences, ethical considerations, and the importance of community consultation.
Given the sheer volume and variable quality of published papers even in high impact journals, it is essential to have skills to target and rapidly appraise relevant literature to answer current clinical questions. This seminar provides simple strategies to help focus your reading, examine validity of results, and decide whether to accept and apply them in your setting.
To accompany the Rapid Critical Appraisal of Scientific Literature seminar, this seminar tackles critical appraisal from a statistical literacy point of view based on the 2013 Nature paper by Sutherland et al. It uses examples from the medical literature to "help non-scientists interrogate advisers and grasp the limitations of evidence" and will indicate when it is time to consult the statisticians. These tips are highly relevant for those looking for a refresher in statistical literacy or struggling to understand the seemingly unlimited sources of bias and confounding.
This seminar covers where and how to find grant opportunities and strategies for putting together a high quality grant application. It also focuses on understanding the grant review process, and how to submit and respond to reviewer comments.
This seminar reiterates ethical principles and focuses on understanding ethics processes for clinical research and responsibilities for researchers. It provides practical and up-to-date guidance for completing quality ethics applications
The use of qualitative research methods is becoming more popular in health either as the primary research method or as part of a mixed methods approach to investigating a health issue. This seminar covers the benefits of using qualitative research; some of the myths associated with the use of qualitative research; the types of qualitative methods; how data is collected and analysed; and, how the research prepares to use qualitative research to improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities.
This seminar covers COVID-19 research activities and their coordination in WA, including WAHTN's role in funding, coordination and prioritisation.
This seminar covers the common problems investigators face during the pandemic, suggest how solutions can be documented, and proposes statistical solutions to minimise bias.
Compared with traditional fixed design clinical trials, adaptive clinical trials have a flexible design that uses accumulating results to make changes to the trial design as it is continues, according to pre-specified rules. This introduces a number of potential advantages including efficiency. This seminar provides an overview of adaptive trials - what they are and why we should consider using them, basic methodology including platform trials and the use of Bayesian statistical methods.
Ethics in research is often perceived as a bureaucratic hurdler to be struggled over. This seminar will instead cover how to embrace ethics as a powerful tool that can ensure research is relevant and will meet its end point. This seminar will empower researchers to fulfil their obligations more easily, ensuring public trust in their work.
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Ethics in research is often perceived as a bureaucratic hurdler to be struggled over. This seminar will instead cover how to embrace ethics as a powerful tool that can ensure research is relevant and will meet its end point. This seminar will empower researchers to fulfil their obligations more easily, ensuring public trust in their work.
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The Department of Health WA now preferentially supports REDCap use and many health service providers are switching to REDCap as the database of choice for safely entering, storing and reporting on data. This recording is from a workshop presented by Dr David Foley, Research Education Program Fellow, in May 2021. This recording provides a stepwise guided walkthrough of REDCap, from logging in to building your first project. This session is directed towards new or novice users of REDCap. The objective is to build familiarity with the layout and processes involved in setting up a new project.
The Department of Health WA now preferentially supports REDCap use and many health service providers are switching to REDCap as the database of choice for safely entering, storing and reporting on data. This recording is from a workshop presented by Dr David Foley, Research Education Program Fellow, in May 2021. This walk-through will explore REDCap surveys, including their design, set-up and distribution. It is targeted to those who are familiar with using REDCap in a so far as logging in and setting up a project.
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