Cancer care data and statistics hub
Statistical Methods and Data Core
This project builds a data and statistics hub to help researchers understand how cancer care is organized and how that affects patients.
Quick facts
| Grant type | P01 program project |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Harvard Medical School NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Boston, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11145972 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
From a patient point of view, the team will bring together and clean large health records from many hospitals and clinics so researchers can use the same data for multiple projects. The Core will manage, secure, and standardize data, handle missing information, and coordinate analyses across studies. Staff will also create new statistical and network methods to map how cancer care providers and organizations connect and how those connections change over time. The work supports other cancer research projects by making their analyses more consistent and rigorous.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Patients with cancer whose treatment and follow‑up appear in the electronic records of participating hospitals, clinics, or health systems would be most relevant to this work.
Not a fit: Patients treated entirely outside the participating health systems or those seeking direct clinical care rather than contributing data are unlikely to directly benefit from the Core itself.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could reveal how different ways of organizing cancer care relate to better outcomes and help guide improvements in access and quality.
How similar studies have performed: Previous health services research has linked care patterns and provider networks to outcomes, but creating a centralized core that harmonizes many large datasets and develops new network methods is relatively novel.
Where this research is happening
Boston, United States
- Harvard Medical School — Boston, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Hatfield, Laura — Harvard Medical School
- Study coordinator: Hatfield, Laura
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.