Studies on your own clinical data.
What it is
The data is already there. The paper is not.
Most departments sit on years of clinical data that never becomes a publication: records that were never extracted cleanly, a registry nobody analysed, a trial dataset with one paper written and three left in it. We design a retrospective cohort, case-control, or registry study around what you hold, clean and harmonise it, run the pre-specified analysis, and write the paper to STROBE or RECORD.
What it is built for
You provide, the dataset (anonymised) or access to extract it, ethics approval, and the clinical judgement.
We provide, study design, data dictionary and cleaning, analysis, manuscript, and submission.
Your data, NDA and data-processing agreement signed before anything moves, transfer by secure link only (never WhatsApp or email), encrypted storage, deletion at project close on request.
Designs, retrospective cohorts, case-control, registry analyses, secondary analyses of trial data, prognostic factor studies.
How it works
The method, in plain terms.
Audit the data
What is there, what is usable
Design
Cohort, case-control, or registry
Clean & harmonise
Dictionary, exclusions, missingness
Analyse
Regression, survival, matching
Sensitivity
Checks reviewers expect
Report
STROBE / RECORD
How you benefit
Why authors start here.
- No new data collection. The dataset exists; the study starts this month.
- More than one paper. A well-cleaned dataset usually supports a series of studies.
- Defensible under review. Pre-specified analysis, documented exclusions.
- You stay the author. Your patients, your data, your judgement, our methods, to ICMJE standards.
The project, step by step
How a study on your data runs with Cohira.
Feasibility note
Send a description or a sample; we say what it can support.
Protocol
Design, outcomes, covariates, and a pre-specified analysis plan.
Clean & harmonise
A data dictionary, an exclusion log, and a dataset that can be re-used.
Analysis
Regression, survival, or matched analyses, with sensitivity checks.
Manuscript
Drafted with you to STROBE or RECORD, formatted to the target journal.
Submit & revise
Journal shortlist, submission package, and reviewer responses to a decision.
Published examples
What studies on institutional data look like in print.
Independent, peer-reviewed examples of what this route can produce.
Association between early treatment with tocilizumab and mortality among critically ill patients with COVID-19
Gupta S, et al. · 2021
A multicentre records-based cohort comparing treated and untreated patients with target-trial methods.
View in journal →
Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan: a retrospective cohort study
Zhou F, et al. · 2020
A two-hospital retrospective cohort of 191 patients, small data, rigorous design, landmark impact.
View in journal →
Presenting characteristics, comorbidities, and outcomes among 5,700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York
Richardson S, et al. · 2020
A single health-system record review that became one of the most-cited clinical papers of the pandemic.
View in journal →
Clinical characteristics of Covid-19 in New York City
Goyal P, et al. · 2020
A retrospective review of 393 consecutive patients from institutional records, published as a research letter.
View in journal →These are independent published studies, shown to illustrate the route, they are not Cohira's work.
Pricing
One fee, from idea to publication.
The fee covers
- Protocol, and registration or ethics submission where the design requires it
- Data dictionary, cleaning, and the pre-specified analysis
- Journal-ready manuscript, figures, and supplements
- Journal shortlist and the full submission package
- Reviewer responses, every round, to a decision
- A named lead and a second internal reviewer
Billed separately
- Journal fees and APCs, at cost
- Database access or licences, at cost
- Optional Acceptance Guarantee, offered at quotation
Per project, never per author. Raw exports needing heavy cleaning are scoped in the feasibility note. Scope and timeline are fixed in the free feasibility note before you pay. Discounts & Acceptance Guarantee →
Start a conversation
Sitting on a dataset?
Describe what you hold. You get a free feasibility note, what the data can support and where it could publish, before you commit.