Get the Support You Need, When You Need It
From the spark of an idea to publishing your findings. Wherever you are in your translational research, we’re here to provide the information, guidance and resources you need to keep your project moving.
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Consultation and services
The OCTRI Navigator can help guide you through the study design process, including connecting you to free and fee-based resources to help you kick off your research. Submit a cost estimate request to learn more.
See how the Trial Innovation Network can support your research project with resources and infrastructure for multi-site research.
Get hands-on help from the nursing, bionutrition, lab assay, and study coordinator teams in the OCTRI Clinical & Translational Research Center throughout your project.
Sign up for face-to-face feedback on your proposal draft at the OCTRI Design Studio.
Contact the OCTRI Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) program to get a statistical consultation.
Watch the video below to learn how the Clinical Research Development Team can help you develop your study.
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Tools
Access a database of qualitative patient-centered interviews via the Health Experiences Research Network (HERN). OCTRI's chapter of HERN conducts and disseminates health experiences research to facilitate a more comprehensive, rich, and representative understanding of patient health experiences.
Consultation and services
Measure the impact of your interventions with support from the OCTRI Evaluation Assistance Program. This team can help you with:
- Focus groups and interviews with community members in Oregon
- Evaluation consultation and evaluation plan support
- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation services
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When your research involves human subjects, it requires approval from the Institutional Review Board. You may also need regulatory approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. OCTRI’s Regulatory Knowledge and Support (RKS) team can provide guidance.
Consultation and services
Contact an OCTRI Navigator to connect with the RKS team for help in determining what requirements apply to your study and how to navigate the appropriate approvals and reporting requirements.
Explore the Consultation and Development resources, including consultation around regulatory knowledge and support, data safety monitoring, and investigational new drug and investigational device exemption process resources.
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Tools
Dig into OCTRI resources and guidance documents to help with your efforts in recruitment and retention of study participants.
Use TriNetX to determine patient cohort counts from electronic health record data.
We use qualitative research methods to provide you with real information from patients about their experiences with a particular topic or condition.
Consultation and services
Contact OCTRI's Recruitment Specialist to schedule a comprehensive recruitment consultation to identify the best resources for your study.
Get community recruitment support from the OCTRI Community Research Hub.
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Tools
Build and manage online survey responses and databases with REDCap.
Consultation and services
Reach out to OCTRI Navigator to schedule a consultation with an Informatics analyst for guidance on the best solutions to your data management needs.
Explore clinical research informatics services available through OCTRI, including streamlining data collection from electronic medical records, building customized databases, and data pre-processing.
Collaborate with the Biostatistics and Design Program (BDP) to prepare REDCap data for analysis.
Research Data Concierge at OHSU
The research data concierge is available to help investigators access and work with research data at OHSU.
The Research Data Sharepoint Online site has extensive research data resources, with more to be added over time from across the institution.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for or if you have other questions, please email the research data concierge directly: researchdata@ohsu.edu
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Consultation and services
Collaborate with a biostatistician in the Biostatistics and Design Program (BDP) to analyze your data and interpret the results.
Get qualitative analysis support from the Evaluation Assistance Program.
OCTRI Research Resources
This pre-recorded webinar provides a comprehensive overview of OCTRI research resources.
How to request OCTRI services
Watch this brief video to learn how a Research Navigator can connect you to the breadth of OCTRI’s services.
Amplifying patient voices with the Health Experiences Research Network
The Health Experiences Research Network (HERN) is part of an international movement to enrich the understanding of people’s experiences of health, healthcare, and illness. Web-based modules and data repositories can be utilized by a variety of stakeholders, including patients and caregivers, health care students and professionals, policymakers, and researchers.
To date, HERN has published eight completed modules available on the national HERN website and more are in production. Information contained in HERN modules can be used to:
- Augment community engagement activities by giving researchers access to the widest possible range of patient health experiences
- Illuminate health experiences of patients and caregivers who are harder to reach, including those from rural populations
- Enhance the patient centeredness of research questions by highlighting what issues are most important to patients and point to gaps in research and/or unexplored areas of inquiry
- Inform research on the collection of patient-reported outcomes and methods for identifying concepts relevant to patients and generating items to measure those concepts
- Understand patient experience of participating in clinical trials and how to improve recruitment and retention
To access the raw data from HERN modules or for more information about using HERN data in your research, please email healthexperiences@ohsu.edu.
Contact an OCTRI Navigator to connect with research resources
Need to cite OCTRI?
Please contact the OCTRI Navigator for grant numbers and sample language.
Navigator email: octri@ohsu.edu
Looking for OCTRI’s collection of OHSU forms and templates?
Review our document library.