BioSTIC - Marseille       

Who are we?

The Biostatistics and technologies of information and communication service (BioSTIC) has for mission to bring and resort to methods center on the professions of biostatistics, medical information and technologies of information and communication to contribute to the development of clinical and epidemiological research and this for the benefit of patients.
The BioSTIC team proposes formalized consultations in order to support investigators in their clinical and epidemiological projects, innovative experimentations in patients care or patients monitoring and needing methods from biostatistics, medical information and technologies of information and communication. This consultation is organized in a structured activity and is part of a quality assurance approach. It process projects promoted by AP-HM or not but implicating its staff. It assures a technical and scientific support for the implementation and monitoring of research projects as well as statistical analysis and results valorization.
The predilection areas of the BioSTIC team are biostatistics, biomathematics, epidemiology, medical informatics, structuration and management of data from heterogeneous sources, computerized systems for decision aid and epidemiologic surveillance help.
These research works are made in collaboration with clinical teams and researcher from labeled teams of the site. They notably are included in the activities of UMR 1252 SESSTIM (Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l’Information Médicale) Inserm/IRD/ Aix-Marseille University from which the BioSTIC members are associated.

Main publications

• Ousseine YM, Butow PN, Fenaux P, Dring R, Festy P, Restivo L, Vey N, Mancini J. Association between health literacy, communication and psychological distress among myelodysplastic syndromes patients. Leuk Res 2018;73:44-50.
• Ouedraogo B, Inoue Y, Kambiré A, Sallah K, Dieng S, Tine R, Rouamba T, Herbreteau V, Sawadogo Y, Ouedraogo LSLW, Yaka P, Ouedraogo EK, Dufour JC, Gaudart J. Spatio-temporal dynamic of malaria in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2011-2015. Malar J 2018;17(1):138.
• Meresse M, Bouhnik AD, Bendiane MK, Retornaz F, Rousseau F, Rey D, Giorgi R. Chemotherapy in Old Women with Breast Cancer: Is Age Still a Predictor for Under Treatment? Breast J 2017;23(3):256-266.
• Dufour JC, Reynier P, Boudjema S, Soto Aladro A, Giorgi R, Brouqui, P. Evaluation of hand hygiene compliance and associated factors with a radio-frequency-identification-based real-time continuous automated monitoring system. J Hosp Infect 2017;95(4):344-351.
• Grafféo N, Castell F, Belot A, Giorgi R. A log-rank-type test to compare net survival distributions. Biometrics 2016;72(3):760-9.

Contact Us

Service de Biostatistique et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (BioSTIC)
Hôpital de la Timone
264 rue St Pierre
13385 Marseille cedex 5
04 91 38 80 89
roch.giorgi@ap-hm.fr