BUSINESS

Clinical Research (CR)

Questionnaire development for QOL, patient satisfaction etc.

New questionnaire development

  • Design of questionnaire development plan
  • Consultation on development designs
  • Extraction of question items and concept organization
  • Question item review and documentation
  • Discussion and creation of response options and scoring
  • Cognitive debriefing
    • interviews
    • discussions with experts
    • finalizing questionnaires
    • writing cognitive debriefing result reports
  • Reporting
    • medical writing (manuscript writing assistance)
    • submission support
    • Point-by-point response letter writing and manuscript revision support
    • support for conference slide creation
    • support for conference poster creation

Translated questionnaires development

  • Design of development plan
  • Consultation on questionnaire development designs
  • Copyright management after questionnaire development
  • Forward translation
    • producing drafted translation by two independent translators
    • discussing drafted translation with experts
    • finalizing forward translation
  • Back translation
    • producing back translation
    • comparing back translation to original (checking for conceptual equivalence)
    • discussing drafted translation with experts
  • Cognitive debriefing
    • interviewing
    • discussing interview results with experts
    • finalizing translated version
    • writing cognitive debriefing result reports
  • Reporting
    • medical writing (manuscript writing assistance)
    • submission support
    • Point-by-point response letter writing and manuscript revision support
    • support for conference slide creation
    • support for conference poster creation

Psychometric validation (validity, reliability, and responsiveness assessments)

Proposal & plan
  • Design of study plan
  • Study design consultation
  • Support for protocol development
  • Preparation support for informed consent documents
  • Application support for ethics committees
Study implementation
  • Study office
    • creating study-related documents
    • support for participating healthcare institutions
    • forming implementation teams
    • arrangement of site initiation meetings
    • responding to inquiries
    • patient enrollment
    • study progress management
    • support for web survey operation
Data management
  • Data management (DM)
    • design of case report forms (CRFs)
    • creating DM plans (DMPs)
    • data input
    • coding
    • manual check & logical check
    • issuing queries
    • data lock
    • writing DM reports (DMRs)
Data analysis
  • Writing statistical analysis plans (SAPs)
  • Statistical programming
  • Statistical analysis
  • Creating statistical analysis reports (SARs)
  • Consultation
Reporting
  • Medical writing (manuscript writing assistance)
  • Submission support
  • Point-by-point response letter writing and manuscript revision support
  • Support for conference slide creation
  • Support for conference poster creation
  • Consultation