Six Months Cleaning. Six Days Analysing.

Between a complete dataset and a submitted manuscript sit months of exporting, merging, recoding and reconciling.

This work is invisible, unfunded, and the reason most departmental research quietly expires. The analysis itself is seldom the hard part — a competent statistician needs days. What takes half a year is producing one table everybody agrees on.

When that work restarts from zero for every project, and is done after hours by whoever volunteered, only the most stubborn clinician ever finishes.

The delay is not the analysis. It is everything before it.

Continue reading — Part 3 of 4

Six Months Cleaning. Six Days Analysing.

Part 3 of a four-part series on turning routine care into published proof — why the six months before analysis are the reason most departmental research quietly expires, and how analysis-ready data by default changes what is possible. Share your email to read the full piece.