The following web links will provide you with some guidance while developing a research project. There is an accompanying document (see Research Project Outline) that will help you to be successful in your research as well as help prepare you for IRB submission and writing a manuscript.

If you have suggestions about improving this guide or additions that you would like to see, please contact the Research Department 616-732-6223.

The following list of links is organized in the order in which you would develop a research project.

Research Process

1. Developing Research Ideas
2. Formulating Clinical Questions
3. Research Question
4. Research Hypothesis
5. Research Planning
6. Research Design
7. Measurement
8. Sampling
9. Analysis
10. IRB-General Information
11. IRB-Specific Information
12. Presenting Your Work
13. Getting Published

Developing Research Ideas
www.childrens-mercy.org/stats/plan/ideas.asp
www.grmerc.net/research/resources/outline.html

Formulating Clinical Questions
http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/practise/

Research Question
http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/3cc42a4225143
47a8525671d0049f395/f87fd7182f0ff21c852569c2005a47b7?OpenDocument

Research Hypothesis
http://www.cmh.edu/stats/plan/hypo.asp

Literature search "how to"
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/li/hl/pdfs/searchingguide.pdf
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/mschafer/Sociology/Synthesizing_Literature.html
http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/inside/FC/docs/
Synthesizing%20the%20Literature.pdf

Research Planning
http://www.childrens-mercy.org/stats/plan.asp

Research Design

Choosing the best
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/315/7123/1636

Design options
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/res_meth/login.html http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/research_methods/index.htm

Quantitative
http://servers.medlib.hscbklyn.edu/ebm/2toc.htm http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/desintro.htm http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/GlossClinStudy.htm

Qualitative
http://kancrn.kckps.k12.ks.us/guide/qualitative.html

Measurement

Levels
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/measlevl.htm

Surveys
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survey.htm

Secondary data analysis (retrospective chart review)
http://www.srl.uic.edu/SEMINARS/Analysis/2ndanalysis03-04.PDF

Focus Groups
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/research_methods/group.htm

Sampling
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/GlossClinStudy.htm
http://www.audiencedialogue.org/gloss-quant.html
http://www.csulb.edu/~msaintg/ppa696/696sampl.htm
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/sampling.htm

Analysis
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

IRB-General Information
In order to conduct research through GRMERC, you must complete the NIH tutorial found at the following link:
http://cme.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning/humanparticipant-protections.asp

http://www.cmh.edu/stats/plan/irb.asp

Office of Human Research Protection:
www.hhs.gov/ohrp/

Belmont Report:
www.nihtraining.com/ohsrsite/guidelines/belmont.html

Common Rule:
www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/#common

Declaration of Helinski:
www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm

Nuremberg Code:
www.nihtraining.com/ohsrsite/guidelines/nuremberg.html

IRB-Specific Information
In order to conduct research through GRMERC, you must complete the NIH tutorial found at the following link:
http://cme.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning/humanparticipant-protections.asp

Contact information for area IRB institutions listed below.
IRB approval is needed for research, even retrospective chart reviews.

Ferris State University IRB Human Subjects Review Committee (HSRC)
College of Arts and Sciences Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI 49307
Phone: 231-591-2759
Website: http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/administration/academicaffairs/
vpoffice/hsrc/hsrcinstruct.pdf

Grand Valley State University IRB Human Research Review Committee
401 W Fulton
Faculty Research and Development Center
301C DeVos Center Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Phone: 616-331-3197
email: hrrc@gvsu.edu

Michigan State University IRB UCRIHS (University Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects)
CRIRB (Community Research Institutional Review Board)
202 Olds Hall East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-355-2180
Website: http://www.humanresearch.msu.edu/
UCRIHS E-mail: ucrihs@msu.edu
CRIRB E-mail: crirb@msu.edu

Saint Mary's Health Care IRB
Ph: 616.752.6198
Fax: 616.752.6151
E-mail: johnstom@trinity-health.org

Spectrum Health IRB
Phone: 616-391-1299
Website: Coming Soon!

State of Michigan IRB
MDCH IRB
3423 N MLK Jr Blvd Lansing, MI 48909
Phone: 517-335-9080
Website: http://michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2945_32550---,00.html

Presenting Your Work
Structuring an Abstract: http://ec.hku.hk/acadgrammar/report/repProc/sections/abstract/imradstr.htm
Guide to Writing Papers: abstract, intro, methods, results, discussion, lit cited: http://classweb.gmu.edu/biologyresources/writingguide/ScientificPaper.htm
Writing a Case Report: http://www.studentbmj.com/issues/04/02/education/60.php, http://www.grmerc.net/research/resources/caseReportOutline.html
Writing a Clinical Study: http://www.grmerc.net/research/resources/clinicalStudyOutline.html
GRMERC Research Day: http://www.grmerc.net/research/researchday.html
Poster Templates/Guidelines: http://www.grmerc.net/research/researchday/posterguide.html
PowerPoint Template/Guidelines: http://www.grmerc.net/research/researchday/powerpoint.html

Getting Published
Over 3000 Journals listed with instructions for authors:
http://mulford.mco.edu/instr/