Recruits and screens study participants. Conducts telephone or in-person interviews with study participants. Edits and codes questionnaire data. Prepares forms and maintains accurate records and files.
Essential Functions:
- Answers participants’ questions and assists in screening, recruiting, and consenting patients. Contacts patients who do not respond to mailings. Schedules examination appointments for study participants. Conducts structured telephone or in-person interviews with study participants. Reviews questionnaires for completeness and accuracy; checks for inconsistencies; and codes open-ended questions. Prepares, mails, and processes questionnaires. Assists in tracing study participants. Prepares data for electronic processing. Keeps accurate records and files.
- Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
Education
- High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
Licenses, Certifications, Registrations
Additional Requirements:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; telephone skills required.
- Familiar with medical terminology
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in a research/health care environment preferred.
- Previous interviewing experience preferred.
- Experience and knowledge of computer applications, such as word processing and database software, preferred.
- Associate’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Familiarity with editing/coding questionnaires preferred.
- The Assessment, Serial Evaluation and Subsequent Sequelae in Acute Kidney Injury (ASSESS-AKI) Study is a national, multi-center prospective parallel, matched cohort of adults and children with and without acute kidney injury.
- This novel study characterizes the short-term and long-term natural history of acute kidney injury, as well as, evaluate novel blood and urine biomarkers for acute kidney injury.
- We established a prospective parallel, matched cohort at the Kaiser Division of Research of 354 participants that will be followed for up to eight years.
- Participants receive annual clinic visits and interim phone contacts to update exposures and outcomes.
- A set of diagnostic tests will be performed on all subjects (blood and urine tests, physical measurements, etc.).
- In addition, all subjects are administered questionnaires during their study visits.
- The ASSESS-AKI Study is sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
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