Services Offered

Pre-award Support:

• Assistance with formulating and clarifying research questions or hypotheses and measurement approaches. Variable identification based on your research questions, determine what variables are needed, how to code these variables and what the best data collection method is.
• Assistance with research study design, power and sample size calculation, appropriate analytic approach and implementation plan, and data sharing plan.
• Develop data management including data handling, data storage, data archiving, data security and IT plans, data sharing plan, and write related application sections
• Assist with the collection and analysis of preliminary data used in determining sample size and power considerations.
• Create scanable survey forms for data collection with TeleForms.
• Participate in writing methods and analysis sections of applications; collaborate in writing application
• Assistance with data coordination center for single and multisite studies
• Protocol development - as needed for pre-award submission

Post-award Support:

• Participate to develop protocols, manuals of operation, and data collection forms. Collaborate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of network protocols
• Set-up and maintain study sites IT infrastructure. Establish/manage secure computerized system to collect data. Set-up and maintain automatic transmission of data.
• Develop/manage secure computerized system to collect data. Provide data management and quality control and adverse event monitoring
• Data Entry, Cleaning, and Quality control - data entry services for non scannable forms and use of TeleForms software to scan data. Data cleaned of outliers and checked for response accuracy and quality control checks performed on data collected to ensure quality is being met.
• Develop needed databases and implement a web-based system to coordinate program activities and monitor performance of the study centers and other central units
• Provide coordination of DSMB, Steering Committee, and Research Site subcommittee teleconferences and meetings
• Prepare and distribute report (e.g., Monthly/Quarterly, adverse event report compilation and distribution, clinical center recruitment performance, Steering Committee, DSMB, and final report.)
• Design and implement state of the art analytic approaches and interpret results. Collaborate on joint presentations and joint publications
• Conduct original methodological research related to the analytical challenges posed by the project.
• Data analysis and interpretation

Other Services:

• Biostatistics Consulting
• Scanning and data entry, creation of datasets
• Provide support for meetings and teleconferences, including support for travel arrangements.
• Provide logistical support necessary to run an efficient and productive network.
• Periodic report preparation.
• Training: Short courses offered in the past (SAS, Stata, Epidata, and National Data sets).
• Data Portal Services
• National Dataset library - Maintain library of national public access datasets with documentation such as Vital Records data and National health survey data
• Local Dataset library - Maintain archives of research projects that may be used by other researchers with limitations.
• Dataset Acquisition Liaison - Serve as liaison to other agencies owning data that USC and other researchers want to use.
• Service offered:
• Archives data from completed projects and maintain a library of National and State level public access data such as vital records and national health surveys from the National Center for Health Statistics. Makes this data readily available to the USC students and researchers.
• Maintains a documentation of web access health related data websites.
• Assists researchers and students in accessing data from other sources such as the SC Central Cancer Registry, SC office of Research or other agencies, organizations and institutions. 
• Maintains a library of documentation for any data entrusted to it or obtained by it.
• Data file conversion & Storage - data can be stored or converted to any of the following formats: SAS, Stata, SPSS, CSV & other.
• Archiving - HSRC offers permanent storage for electronic data as well as paper survey forms.