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VAIRRS dashboards

VAIRRS provides dashboards that offer users customized and tailored data, metrics, analytics, and decision-making tools.

Benefits of Dashboards
  • Consolidated overview of the research data
  • Ability to run custom reports for data analysis and reporting
  • Ability to leverage data for decision-making
  • Easy data auditing capabilities


Current Dashboards available to the field:

  • National Researcher Dashboard
    We are pleased to announce the newest addition to the dashboard portfolio. The National Researcher Dashboard was published in October 2022 for all VA researchers. As a researcher, you will have the necessary tools to search the national IRBNet dataset for active research projects. The National Researcher Dashboard is located here.
National Researcher Dashboard

Reminder: If you have not already requested access to your facility's dashboard, you can request access here. Please submit all feedback to VAIRRS@va.gov.

  • Field Staff Dashboard

    Please note: the "Data Curation" page was changed to "Data Integrity."

    "Data Integrity" emails were sent on Thursday, June 20, 2024. We have recently found an error in the number of "RDC Blank Yellow Flags" in the emails; please ignore this stat and head straight to the "Data Integrity" page for the latest details.

    There is now a "Pending Reviews" under the "Overall Project Status" to indicate whether something is in pending status. This will automatically rectify a few "RDC Blank Yellow Flags" moving forward. Further development work is pending and may further rectify some issues automatically.

    We have recently updated the language "Risk Level downgraded – not allowed" to "Risk Level downgraded – please verify." The program is not enforcing action be taken from a regulatory perspective, but simply providing an observation of what could be an issue. Unfortunately, even after checking "verify," this flag will continually show up even after the weekly refresh. The VAIRRS Support Team is currently working on a solution for end users to provide feedback to the database so that you can "check off" that you have already verified it. In the meantime, please ignore this kind of alert if you have already verified that it is not an issue.
    If you would like to learn more about the Field Staff Reporting dashboard updates, the recording of the VAIRRS End of Year Updates webinar is available.

You can request access to your facility’s dashboard here (VA network only).

Reminder: Once your access is approved, please refer to this link for access.


Field Staff Dashboard

Sample dashboard of local facility

  • COVID-19 Research Dashboard

    As of January 23, 2024, there are 969 active projects related to COVID-19 research taking place at 81 VA Medical Centers across the country.

    The projects submitted to VAIRRS can be easily tracked via our COVID-19 Research Dashboard. The COVID-19 Research Dashboard allows users to search studies by specific topic and/or location.

    The COVID-19-related projects submitted to the VAIRRS platform support and advance VA's clinical and research missions, ultimately helping Veterans affected by the disease.

    COVID-19 dashboard

    • Do you have ideas for improving the field dashboards? Do you have a request for a new dashboard development for your team? Please submit your suggestions to the VAIRRS Dashboard team using the online form at https://tinyurl.com/mr2str4d (VA network access only).



    VAIRRS Dashboards FAQs
    1. Who can have access to Dashboards?
      Any VA employee can request access to a VAIRRS Dashboard.

    2. How is the data for my facility being used?
       VAIRRS uses the data in the dashboards for regular reporting, leadership briefs and decision making. The VAIRRS goal is to create a trustworthy authoritative data set so that the data in the dashboards can also be leveraged for auditing purposes.

    3. Where does the data in the dashboards come from?
      Most of the data in the dashboards is pulled from the data and wizards in IRBNet. If a dashboard is pulling data from an additional source, it will be defined in the VAIRRS data dictionary.

    4. How often is the data in dashboards refreshed?
      The data in the dashboards are updated on a weekly basis and updates from the prior week will reflect on the following Monday.

    5. If a site has a multi-site IRB, will they have access to the studies reviewed for other sites in the Field Staff Dashboard?
       Individuals should only have access to the studies reviewed at their own site.


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