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Estimating the value of an internal biostatistical consulting service

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Parker

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
104 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0277-6715

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✦ Synopsis

Biostatistical consulting is a service business. Although a consulting biostatistician's goal is long-term collaborative relationships with investigators, this is the same as the long-term goal of any business: having a group of contented, satis"ed customers. In this era of constrained resources, we must be able to demonstrate that the bene"t a biostatistical consulting group provides to its organization exceeds its actual cost to the institution. In this paper, I provide both a theoretical framework for assessing the value of a biostatistical service and provide an ad hoc method to value the contribution of a biostatistical service to a grant. Using the methods described, our biostatistics group returns more than $6 for each dollar spent on institutional support in 1998.

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