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Feasibility Assessment

How do you get data about UTSW patients from the electronic medical record who may be available to participate in a study or whose data may be available for analysis?

A feasibility assessment (patient count) allows you to determine the ability to recruit your population of interest from UT Southwestern patients as you develop a study, or to assess the availability of UT Southwestern patient data for analysis (de-identified data only).

Get a Count of Potential Participants

You can schedule a free consultation or use self-service tools to get a count of potential participants to help with a funding application or decision to start a research project.

  • Free Consultation
    Bring your inclusion/exclusion criteria and we can guide you through the process and show you how to use our two main feasibility tools: SlicerDicer and i2b2. kathleen.esselink@utsouthwestern.edu to schedule a consultation or pick a convenient time by signing up online.
  • Access our self-service feasibility tools (No IRB approval needed)
    • Epic SlicerDicer – Log into Epic and Find under the “Reporting” Menu
    • I2b2

Note: All data received from these processes are de-identified.

Get Electronic Health Record Data for Your Research Project

The Informatics Coordinating Office will help you translate your research idea into a description of an analyzable patient dataset and help you refine your inclusion and exclusion criteria.

This includes a de-identified dataset for one-time use or a dataset with patient identifiers. Each of these requires specific levels of IRB approval.

For a count of potential participants, kathleen.esselink@utsouthwestern.edu to get started or to learn more about using the EHR for feasibility assessments.

To request data, aamirah.vadsariya@utsouthwestern.edu to get started or to learn more about data available to researchers at UT Southwestern.

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