The IRB is monitoring the status of more than 6000 studies in light of the COVID-19 research pause. Waves of surveys are sent to assess and monitor study status (paused/ongoing). The role of Project 1 volunteers are to 1) advise the IRB on the creation of central databases, 2) create and manage surveys and their responses, and 3) help the IRB to clean, manage, and maintain the databases. Ultimately, the aim of Project 1 is to optimize the workflow (as much as possible) and reduce the burden on IRB personnel.
Team
Manager: Haotian (“Howie”) Wu
Volunteers: Khushbu Kabra; Rebecca Kehm
Project Summary
Shortly after the launch of CRAC, data management quickly became one of our core competencies as there was a great demand from external collaborators and we had very talented and data-savvy volunteers. These projects had straightforward, though not necessarily simple, objectives - help our external collaborators manage existing or emerging databases, whether it’s data for the IRB, transplant patients, or the CCU. Toward those goals, our volunteers worked very hard at cleaning data, designing databases, and managing surveys. While it is hard for us to share any specific information about any of the databases as they are not meant to be publicly available, we are very happy to say that we have indeed accomplished all of the goals. We are almost sad that everything went so smooth it nearly looked boring from the outside!
Manager: Haotian (“Howie”) Wu
Volunteers: Khushbu Kabra; Rebecca Kehm
Project Summary
Shortly after the launch of CRAC, data management quickly became one of our core competencies as there was a great demand from external collaborators and we had very talented and data-savvy volunteers. These projects had straightforward, though not necessarily simple, objectives - help our external collaborators manage existing or emerging databases, whether it’s data for the IRB, transplant patients, or the CCU. Toward those goals, our volunteers worked very hard at cleaning data, designing databases, and managing surveys. While it is hard for us to share any specific information about any of the databases as they are not meant to be publicly available, we are very happy to say that we have indeed accomplished all of the goals. We are almost sad that everything went so smooth it nearly looked boring from the outside!