DiscoverNOW Process Flow Retrospective research No Feasibility What

Discover-NOW Process Flow – Retrospective research No Feasibility What type of research is the project? Client agreement with final proposal and client contract signed All required fields completed? Complete all required fields in application form Yes Query executed Researchers conduct projects User account created & access details provided Recruitment to a study Identify and engage a NWL PI to complete application form and obtain Letter of Support from the Head of Department/R&D Generate application to NWL DAG Access forms signed Yes Process Interaction Client agreement with final proposal and client contract signed Research question received NWL Data Access Group* Approved Data access to data required Client Interaction Retrospectiv e research Agree scope of the project and research questions defined, funding ICHP Senior Management Team reviews the project and gives decision if project can/cannot proceed No Feedback given to applicant & client No Yes Client contract development/ vendor formalities Feedback given to applicant & access details provided No Research conducted and report provided to client • depending when the application is received (Group meets monthly every 3 rd Thursday at 9: 30 am, application to be submitted to Discover-NOW by 2 nd Thursday; the decision is given on the day). The PI is required to dial in to the meeting. i. Note no data extractions are allowed prior to this approval being granted.

Retrospective Analysis Stage Entry dependent on completion and approval by NWL Data Access Group Kick-off meeting Scoping** Data Extraction and Analysis *** Data Analysis Iterations Final Review of Data Reporting **research questions, variables defined analysis plan/ Output Data Tables, protocol development, agree final protocol and tables to populate *** perform data extraction, run quality control, populate shell tables