RESEARCH CENTER FOR SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT

症状管理研究中心(RCSM)的目标是 增进症状管理领域的知识，从而， 改善卫生保健提供者的做法和个人的症状结果。 症状是人们寻求医疗保健的最常见原因。症状是 自管理以来，个人及其家庭面临的主要问题 由此产生的结果往往是他们自己的责任。很多人 想知道他们是否在做正确的事情，以及他们的症状管理 策略是适当的。如果没有实现症状控制，通常 个人有价值的活动被打乱，他们的生活质量 受到不利影响。与此同时，医疗保健提供者拥有 难以制定可应用于以下领域的症状管理策略 急诊护理、门诊护理和家庭护理环境，因为有 很少有经过测试的症状管理模型。 RCSM的总体目标是： 1.发展跨健康科学的症状管理子学科 通过阐明和测试 症状管理模型(Larson等人)印刷版)； 2.通过降低症状发病率和改善个人健康状况 从而提高他们的生活质量，特别强调 特定的文化和族裔群体； 3.培养护理学和其他学科的科学家 症状管理领域的跨学科培训； (四)建立相互促进、相互配合、相互配合的机制 致力于症状领域的跨学科临床研究人员 管理层。 实现这些目标的直接战略是：建立 管理、研究支持和研究的组织单位 发展和传播核心；促进联合国儿童基金会正在进行的工作 11项目前资助的赠款(见《研究基地说明》 )，并协助为公元01年选定的三项试验研究 ；正式将临床研究工作与 症状管理；并为RCSM提供可访问的中央资源 附属教员。 我们的赠款建议是对RFA在急性和非传染性疾病领域的回应 在整个过程中处理人类反应的慢性致残条件 寿命。我们有这些人员，这些人员的承诺， 资源和加州大学旧金山分校的设施 弗朗西斯科开展研究中心核心拨款的规模和范围 在本申请中描述的。

The goal of the Research Center for Symptom Management (RCSM) is to advance the knowledge in the field of symptom management and, thereby, improve health care providers' practice and individuals' symptom outcomes. Symptoms are the most common reason people seek health care. Symptoms are a major problem for individuals and their families since their management and resulting outcomes are often their own responsibility. Many people wonder if they are "doing the right thing" and if their symptom management strategies are appropriate. If symptom control is not achieved, frequently individuals' valued activities are disrupted and their quality of life adversely affected. At the same time, health care providers have difficulty developing symptom management strategies that can be applied in the acute care, ambulatory care, and home care settings because there are few tested models of symptom management. The overall aims of the RCSM are to: 1. Develop the subdiscipline of symptom management across health science disciplines and across health care settings by elucidating and testing a Model of Symptom Management (Larson, et al. in-press); 2. Improve individuals' health status, by decreasing symptom morbidity and thereby enhance their quality of life, with particular emphasis on specific cultural and ethnic groups; 3. Prepare scientists in Nursing and other disciplines by interdisciplinary training in the area of symptom management; 4. Create mechanisms for synergy, cooperation, and collaboration among interdisciplinary clinical investigators working in the area of symptom management. The immediate strategies to achieve these aims are to: establish the organizational unit of administrative, research support, and research development and dissemination cores; to facilitate the ongoing work of the eleven currently funded grants (see description of Research Base in a later section), and to assist the three pilot studies selected for Year 01 of this grant proposal; to formally link clinical research efforts in symptom management; and to provide accessible central resources to RCSM affiliated faculty. Our grant proposal is responsive to the RFA in the area of acute and chronic disabling conditions that deal with human responses throughout the life span. We have the personnel, the commitment of these personnel, the resources, and the facilities at the University of California, San Francisco to carry out a research center core grant of the size and scope described in this application.