Health Sciences Libraries Advancing Collaborative Clinical Research Data Management in Universities

Abstract

Purpose:Medical libraries need to actively review their service models and explore partnerships with other campus entities to provide better-coordinated clinical research management services to faculty and researchers. TRAIL (Translational Research and Information Lab), a five-partner initiative at the University of Washington (UW), explores how best to leverage existing expertise and space to deliver clinical research data management (CRDM) services and emerging technology support to clinical researchers at UW and collaborating institutions in the Pacific Northwest.Methods:The initiative offers 14 services and a technology-enhanced innovation lab located in the Health Sciences Library (HSL) to support the University of Washington clinical and research enterprise. Sharing of staff and resources merges library and non-library workflows, better coordinating data and innovation services to clinical researchers. Librarians have adopted new roles in CRDM, such as providing user support and training for UW’s Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) instance.Results:TRAIL staff are quickly adapting to changing workflows and shared services, including teaching classes on tools used to manage clinical research data. Researcher interest in TRAIL has sparked new collaborative initiatives and service offerings. Marketing and promotion will be important for raising researchers’ awareness of available services.Conclusions:Medical librarians are developing new skills by supporting and teaching CRDM. Clinical and data librarians better understand the information needs of clinical and translational researchers by being involved in the earlier stages of the research cycle and identifying technologies that can improve healthcare outcomes. At health sciences libraries, leveraging existing resources and bringing services together is central to how university medical librarians will operate in the future.

Prognostic significance of early platelet dynamics in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

“…Daily platelet counts during the initial 7 days of SAB were recorded. Extracted data were recorded in REDCap, a HIPAA-compliant secured electronic database hosted at the University of Southern California [ 13 ].…”

Research data management systems and the organization of universities and research institutes: A systematic literature review

“…The studies named various tools like long-term storage, communication tools or software solutions as infrastructure for RDM and underlined the necessity to consider costs for investments and running expenses (e.g. Bardyn et al, 2018; Henderson and Knott, 2015; Macdonald and Martinez-Uribe, 2010). Makani (2015) emphasized that tools for RDM need to go beyond the differences among research disciplines and have to enable information connection.…”

“…Investments for infrastructure can take place through the implementation of special tools, space for the analyzing of the data (Bardyn et al, 2018), or institutional repository Elsayed and Saleh, 2018;Macdonald and Martinez-Uribe, 2010;). An in-depth understanding of the user-needs will be necessary before investments for infrastructure should take place ).…”

Adapting data management education to support clinical research projects in an academic medical center

“…Just as librarians at the University of Washington carved out a role for themselves in supporting clinical research efforts [45], we seized the opportunity to do the same by offering CRDM education. As the first line of defense for teaching researchers, identifying their data management issues, and hearing their concerns, our library is serving as the conduit for ensuring clinical research is conducted according to GCDM practices at our institution.…”