Resources for clinical research
These seminars are freely available and maybe helpful resources for clincial research
- Rapid critical appraisal of scientific literature– simple strategies to help focus your reading, examine validity of results
- Research fundamentals– an overview of how to design a study
- Biostatistics– introduction, sample size calculations and other tips
- Qualitative Research Methods– types of qualitative research, how data is collected analysed, and how qualitative research can improve patient outcomes
- Data Management and RedCAP– Data management strategies, such as database design, data entry, cleaning and storage and an overview of a popular database, RedCAP
- Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in clinical research– what is Quality of Life?; Selecting a measure and good PRO design
- Understanding health economics in cancer research and other health economics resources
- Consumer and community involvement in research– basic principles, the benefits and barriers
- Conducting systematic reviews– an overview of several types of reviews, along with simple strategies to focus a review and support review methodology.
- GRADE approach to rate the certainty of evidence from network meta-analysis and Summary of findings tables– A 3 part webinar from the Cochrane training hub discussing the GRADE approach with examples
- Cochrane Review author starter kit– A collection of resources to begin your journey as an author in Cochrane
- Constructing your systematic review– a practical and interactive workshop that introduces the steps involved in developing a systematic review
- Scientific writing– getting started, structure and organisation, authorship and the publication process
- Implementation science– aimed at clinicians who want to develop their understanding of this area
- Grant applications and finding funding-Covers the fundamentals of grant applications. Many funding opportunities presented are specific for WA, but further funding opportunities are regularly updated on TOGA’s Funding Opportunities page
