Statistics & Research Informatics Core (SRIC)
The SRIC serves to support the clinical, basic science, educational, and administrative research needs of SIU SM’s faculty with:
Statistical Support
The statistical support function within the Center for Clinical Research includes statistical modeling design and related data activities such as:
- Conceptualization of research problems
- Experimental design
- Statistical analysis of data
- Interpretation and presentation of statistical findings
- Presentation of research results
The staff provides expertise in a variety of statistical programs and has over 30 years of creating statistical models and study designs for basic science, clinical, educational, administrative, population, and translational research.
Health Outcomes Research
The health outcomes or health services research function within the Center for Clinical Research includes assessment of quality and effectiveness of producing desired outcomes as a cost-effective measure through assessment of hospital and health systems, government, and large health care records databases. With this research focus and data sources, CCR staff can perform the following health outcomes related tasks:
- Data acquisition
- Data management
- Data storage
- Analysis of data sources
Translational Research
The translational function within the Center for Clinical research includes assisting staff in a variety of functions to bridge basic and clinical research and bridge clinical and community research. This includes assisting faculty in:
- Navigating institutional and regulatory requirement necessary for developing and testing new treatments or therapies.
- Performing community and practice based research
- Assessing population level data
- Describing the demographic and sociological makeup of targeted communities and regions
Research Informatics
The research informatics function within the Center for Clinical Research includes research project design and related data activities such as:
- Database creation, management, and design
- Data collection/acquisition
- Data entry, coding, and de-identification
- Data analysis
- Data reporting
In addition, staff also provides expertise in using and managing research software and converting and formatting data for use with multiple applications. Their work in de-identification and other function allows them to act as an honest broker to ensure regulatory compliance.
Sources of Geography Based Descriptive Data [PDF]
A variety of data repositories are available from which descriptive data can be retrieved and used to help describe the demographic and sociological makeup of a community, area, or county. Additionally, such data can help describe the overall health, the prevalence of a certain disease or risk factor, the health behaviors, and the availability and quality of health care services of a given area. This information can then be used for internal description of a hospital’s or public health department’s service area, external use for grant application or manuscript preparation, and other uses.
Databases of Secondary Databases for Population Based Research [PDF]
For assistance in accessing and utilizing any of these data sets, contact Whitney Zahnd at wzahnd@siumed.edu or (217) 545-2428.
P.O. Box 19664
Springfield, Il. 62794-9664
Phone: (217) 545-9700
Fax: (217) 545-0799
email: ccr@siumed.edu