Research
Training
Resources
Multicenter Clinical Trial Design
Items in this section aim to enhance the researcher's skills in designing multicenter clinical trials
- Designing Clinical Research (5th ed.) by Browner, Newman, Cummings et al. (Wolters Kluwer, 2022).
- Fundamentals of Clinical Trials (5th ed.) by Friedman, Furberg, DeMets, Reboussin, & Granger (Springer, 2015)
- Pilot Studies: Common Uses & Misuses, NIH website
- Contemporary Clinical Trials | Pragmatic and Virtual Trials | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier – Contemporary Clinical Trials special issue resource in trial design
- Contemporary Clinical Trials: Pilot and feasibility studies: Is there a difference from each other and from a ransomised controlled trial?
- AAP: Research -- Practice-Based, Pediatrician Surveys, Child Health Data Trends
- UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI): Virtual Research in a Complicated World
- Clinical Trial Examples & Professional Development: ECHO Discovery Series
- Creating a Good Research Question - Harvard Catalyst
Multicenter Clinical Trial Implementation
Items in this section will enhance the researcher's skills in implementation of multicenter clinical trials.
- University of Kansas Medical Center's (KUMC) Department of Biostatistics & Data Science: "Introduction to Biostatistics for Clinical & Translational Researchers"
- KUMC Research Administration's Investigator Support Program
- KUMC IND/IDE Support
Multicenter Clinical Trial Publication
Items in this section will enhance the researcher's skills in publishing multicenter clinical trial manuscripts.
- Research Writing Toolkit - Research Guides at University of Kansas Medical Center
- KU CTSI: Science Communication Services -- includes research editing, mock study sections, etc
- The Science of Scientific Writing by George D. Gopen & Judith A. Swan.
- Reader Expectation Approach (REA) to the English Language by Dr. George Gopen | Lectures on Video – 12 parts
Our Goal
The goal of SPeCTr is to improve opportunities for children in rural and underserved areas of Kansas to participate in clinical trials. We are part of a National Network!
ECHO ISPCTN Portal
ECHO ISPCTN Professional Development includes presentations on a variety of research topics from "Defining a Research Question" to "Publishing & Presenting." You need access to the ECHO ISPCTN Research portal to see them. Go to this website and click on the “Need Access?” link.