Clinicum: organised support for clinical and translational research
Key facts:
- Clinicum project started in 2021 to improve the conditions for high-quality research and efficient use of health data at KI and in the Stockholm Region
- Clinicum consists of a central function and 7 nodes which represent the care provider organisations in Region Stockholm and SLSO
- Clinicum provides support for KI employed or affiliated researchers
- Advice and support functions are currently free of charge
About Clinicum
Clinicum is part of the region-wide initiative that aims to strengthen the quality of clinical and translational research.
Clinicum's organisation
Clinicum consists of a central function and 7 nodes which represent the care provider organisations in Region Stockholm and SLSO. The nodes' activities aim to offer scientific advice and to provide methodological support and guidance in the planning and execution of research projects.
Clinicum nodes:
- Danderyd Hospital
- Karolinska University Hospital - Huddinge
- Karolinska University Hospital - Solna
- S:t Erik Hospital
- S:t Göran Hospital
- Stockholm Läns Sjukvårdsområde (SLSO)
- Stockholm South General Hospital (Södersjukhuset)
Clinicum's mission is to:
- Provide clinical and translational researcher support in assessing and developing the quality of their study design and analysis of data
- Provide methodological support and advice in biostatistics and bioinformatics
- Ensure access to the support services and IT environments to facilitate handling of health data in research
Local support
- Several of Clinicum's nodes currently offer research support including methodological advice
- Researchers can contact their local Clinicum node via contact details summarised on this page
Central support
You can apply for central support via Clinicum's central method support function if your local Clinicum node can't currently offer methodological advice.
What can you as a researcher get support with?
In Clinicum's operations, there are researchers in biostatistics, bioinformatics, epidemiology and other method-intensive disciplines who participate in the scientific advice.
For projects in the early phase, there is opportunity to discuss issues related to:
- study design
- choice of statistical method
- data orders
- description of method sections in applications to the ethics review authority or to grant providers
Clinicum can also help with recommendations and considerations linked to:
- conference abstracts
- statistical analysis plans
- study protocols
- review comments
Clinicum's method support network can also participate in shorter consultations that can help researchers avoid common mistakes when performing statistical programming or analyses, as well as discuss ideas for new studies and analyses.
Apply for support:
- You need to fill in a complete application for support to ensure that you as a researcher receive the best possible help from our method and research specialists
- Your application will then be processed by Clinicum's method support coordinator and you will be contacted shortly via e-mail to schedule an initial appointment
- Location and format of meetings will be decided according to what suits best in each individual case as Clinicum operates through its nodes and virtual network of specialists
- Physical meetings between researchers and Clinicum's advisors are recommended to maximise the benefit of the meetings, digital meetings are possible too
Things to consider when applying for support:
- Apply for support in time. The earlier your application is received, the better support you can expect.
- Fill in the application form carefully. A more clearly formulated question gives us a better chance of connecting you to the right methodological competence.
- Feel free to bring key collaborators to the counselling session. We encourage researchers to consider our consultations as research meetings and welcome PhD students, postdocs, your own statisticians or programmers to participate.
- As a basic rule, we cannot provide practical support with data processing or statistical analyses via Clinicum.
- Researchers in need of long-term and/or hands-on data analysis are advised to contact the Biostatistics Core (Division of Biostatistics, IMM), or MedStat (LIME).
Clinicum nodes
Kliniskt Forskningscentrum Danderyds sjukhus KFC
Contact:
- Eva Isaksson, eva.isaksson@regionstockholm.se
- Hillevi Asplund, hillevi.asplund@regionstockholm.se
- Statistics support - statistik@kids.ki.se
Contact:
- Thomas Olsson, thomas.a.olsson@regionstockholm.se
- Statistics support - Mikael Andersson Franko
Centre for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CBB
Contact:
- Carsten Daub
- Hannes Hagström
- Statistics support - cbb@ki.se
CLINICUM Solna – lokalt forskarstöd med fokus på vetenskaplig och metodologisk rådgivning
Contact:
- clinicum-solna@ki.se
- Statistics support - apply via this link
Contact:
Henna Hasson, henna.hasson@regionstockholm.se
Contact:
Contact:
Anna Norhammar, Anna.Norhammar@capiostgoran.se
Contact at KI
Please send your questions regarding Clinicum operations and activities to clinicum@ki.se