GENERAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER

成人和成人综合临床研究中心续建 纽约哥伦比亚长老会医疗中心的儿科病人 城市的提出是为了提供一个设施 多学科、密集的人类床边临床研究 疾病。最初在成人单位请求1168 A天的支持 在儿科病房住200天；新陈代谢饮食厨房；离散的 门诊部，初期年就诊3750人次；核心实验室，以及 一种基于计算机的数据管理和分析资源。中心是 旨在使危重病人和门诊病人能够 学习。该中心为患者提供住院治疗的环境 其中仔细的饮食控制，熟练的重症护理，以及 精确收集尿液、粪便和血液样本，以及其他 特别程序，可以进行。合资格的教职员工 内科医学院临床和基础科学系 外科医生，哥伦比亚大学将研究临床问题 临床调查的大部分主要领域。虽然主要的 该设施的目的与人类研究有关，它还提供 非同寻常的本科生和研究生培训机会 临床调查。 主要研究活动包括：脂类和脂蛋白代谢； 痴呆症，尤其是阿尔茨海默氏症；帕金森氏症； 生殖生物学；艾滋病；铅中毒；婴儿营养与能量 费用；心律失常；心脏移植；肥胖； 骨质疏松症；甲状旁腺功能亢进症；溶血性贫血；心肌缺血； 银屑病；帕吉特骨病；神经性厌食症；先兆子痫；以及 神经肌肉疾病。

Continuation of the General Clinical Research Center for adult and pediatric patients at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City is proposed for the purpose of providing a facility for multidisciplinary, intensive bedside clinical investigation of human disease. Support is requested for 1168 A days in the Adult Unit initially and 200 A days in the Pediatric Unit; a metabolic diet kitchen; a discrete Outpatient Unit with 3750 annual visits initially; a Core Laboratory, and a computer-based data management and analysis resource. The Center is designed so that acutely ill, as well as ambulatory patients can be studied. The Center provides for hospitalization of patients in a setting in which careful dietary control, skillful intensive nursing care, and precise collection of urine, stool, and blood specimens, as well as other special procedures, can be carried out. Qualified faculty members of the clinical and basic science departments of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University will study clinical problems which embrace most of the major fields of clinical investigation. Although the primary purpose of the facility is concerned with human research, it also provides unusual opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate training in clinical investigation. Major research activities include: Lipid and Lipoprotein metabolism; Dementias, especially Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's Disease; Reproductive Biology; AIDS; Lead Intoxication; Infant Nutrition and Energy Expenditure; Cardiac Arrhythmias; Cardiac Transplantation; Obesity; Osteoporosis; Hyperparathyroidism; Hemolytic Anemias; Myocardial Ischemia; Psoriasis; Paget's Disease of Bone; Anorexia Nervosa; Preeclampsia; and Neuromuscular Disease.