Access Before Analysis™ welcomes thoughtful collaboration with organizations and researchers interested in studying what happens before pediatric laboratory analysis can begin.

Collaboration may take different forms depending on the question, setting, expertise, and institutional requirements involved.

For health systems, pediatric programs, laboratories, and quality teams interested in establishing a baseline for specimen-acquisition outcomes and encounters resulting in no specimen.

Understand where specimen collection workflows break down—and where improvement efforts can begin.

Benefits:

• Identify specimen access barriers
• Understand escalation patterns during pediatric encounters
• Support workflow redesign and improvement planning

For researchers interested in:

• Describing the incidence and characteristics of pediatric encounters resulting in no specimen
• Refining observational definitions and measures
• Evaluating documentation feasibility and inter-rater reliability
• Examining relationships among preparation, support, escalation, and collection outcomes
• Developing appropriately reviewed multisite or generalizability studies

All proposed research remains subject to the participating institutions’ scientific, ethical, privacy, and operational review requirements.

Access Before Analysis™ contributes:

• A clearly defined upstream access problem

• A developing observational framework

• Draft documentation concepts and methodological guardrails

• Frontline pediatric laboratory and behavioral insight

• A growing body of published and professional work

Collaborating organizations and researchers may contribute:

• Clinical and operational context

• Methodological expertise

• Institutional oversight and research infrastructure

• Access to appropriately approved study settings

• Critical review of definitions, measures, and interpretation

The strongest work will combine frontline observation with rigorous research and institutional expertise.

If your organization or research team is examining pediatric specimen access, unsuccessful collection encounters, or missing pre-analytic data, I would welcome a conversation about whether our questions align.