RESEARCH DATA ACQUISITION & MANAGEMENT NETWORK

本提案的目的是建立一个数据采集和 亚利桑那大学护理学院管理网络 其将包括唯一配置的本地计算机网络 在护理学院内，旨在作为主机系统和 远程工作站终端群。 通过工作站 主机网络将有可能共享（1）外围设备（磁盘存储， 打印机、绘图仪等）; (2)用于数据收集的应用软件， 处理和分析;（3）计算机之间的信息， 护理学院内的其他用户;及（4）之间的信息 外部计算机系统，包括 亚利桑那大学数据管理网络 工程和采矿及其他无障碍计算机系统 国家 网络的远程元件是便携式计算机， 可以“异地”带到医院和临床实验室， 作为数据收集网站。 设立的目标 该数据采集和管理网络具有便携式功能， 有：1.为每个用户提供唯一配置的 为高级计算机设计的艺术工作站 研究者计划的应用程序（例如，计算机驱动分析 模拟数据;计算机驱动的研究协议，图形分析 程序）;为每个用户提供集中的硬件， 用于经济高效的数据处理、存储和 检索; 3.为每个用户提供共享的集中式计算机， 一种以微计算机为基础的设施，功能强大， 数据集，并创建执行所需的数据库 元分析和心理测量分析程序; 4.提供 每个用户都有一辆车， 多中心研究中的收集中心和 全国其他地区的大学和研究人员; 5.提供 具有共享便携式设备的用户组，这些设备将用于“床边” 管理计算机交付的实验治疗和 数字和模拟数据的集合，可以传输到 用于分析和存储主机系统。

The purpose of this proposal is to establish a Data Acquisition and Management Network at the University of Arizona, College of Nursing which would encompass a uniquely configured local computer network within the College of Nursing designed to serve as the host system and a constellation of remote workstation terminals. Through the workstations host network it will be possible to share (1) peripherals (disk storage, printers, plotters, etc.); (2) application software for data collection, processing and analysis; (3) information between computers and with other users within the College of Nursing; and (4) information between outside computer systems including the mainframe computer system of the University of Arizona, the data management network at the College of Engineering and Mines and other accessible computer systems in the country. The remote elements of the network are portable computers and can be carried "off site" to hospital and clinical laboratories which are serving as data collection sites. The objectives for establishing this Data Acquisition and Management Network with its portable features include: 1. to provide each user with a uniquely configured, state of the art, workstation that is designed for the advanced computer applications planned by the investigator (e.g., computer-driven analysis of analog data; computer-driven research protocols, graphical analysis procedures); 2. to provide each user with centralized hardware and software resources for cost-effective data manipulation, storage and retrieval; 3. to provide each user with a shared, centralized computer facility which is microcomputer-based and sufficiently powerful to pool the data sets and to create the data bases required for performing meta-analysis and for psychometric analysis procedures; 4. to provide each user with a vehicle for facilitating communication among data collection sites in multi-site studies and among researchers within the College and researchers in other parts of the country; 5. to provide the user group with shared, portable units that will be used for "bedside" administration of computer-delivered experimental treatments and for the collection of digital and analog data that can be transferred to the host system for analysis and storage.