CORE--RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SUPPORT UNIT

波士顿大学MAMDC强调卫生服务研究， 风湿病流行病学自1977年关节炎中心开始。 所要求的资金将继续支持该核心小组的活动。 作为卫生服务、流行病学和其他方面的中心资源的单位 在这个关节炎中心的研究。 具体而言，为五个项目寻求资金 关键支助服务：1）行政管理; 2）项目设计和 评价; 3）统计服务; 4）计算机服务; 5）持续 流行病学分析。 每个领域的核心单位工作人员 将参与四类活动，以实现 关节炎中心核心的目的：1）整合多种 E/E/HSR和非生物医学D + F项目在此更新补助金中详细说明; 2)为这些项目和其他项目提供补充支助 随着中心在五年内的发展， 3）为其他基础和临床研究提供技术支持服务 这个核心已经并将在这个关节炎中心进行的研究项目 继续提供重要的研究支援服务;及（4） 为其他关节炎研究的研究者提供咨询支持服务 单位 核心单元的安排创造了一个资源网络， 工作人员在其具体项目任务之外的职能， 有效利用员工时间。 这个中央资源的枢纽是 该支助单位成员的共用办公空间， 经常进行人际协商，每周举行工作人员会议， 正在进行和拟议的研究项目得到严格评估。 核心 服务职能将为下列项目提供补充支助： 通过该提案资助的流行病学和卫生保健研究， 其他一些项目正在和将由其他来源资助。 这个核心已经提供了大量的研究支持， 这是一个由外部资助的项目，并将继续这样做。 核心还将 为赠款期间发展的新项目提供关键的启动 周期 此外，核心将为其他基本和 关节炎中心的临床项目，并将使我们的工作人员， 继续为其他关节炎研究人员提供咨询支持 单位

The Boston University MAMDC has emphasized health services research and rheumatic disease epidemiology since the Arthritis Center began in 1977. The funds requested will continue to support the activities of this core unit as a central resource for health services epidemiology and other research in this Arthritis Center. Specifically, funds are sought for five crucial support services: 1) administration; 2) project design and evaluation; 3) statistical services; 4) computer services; and 5) ongoing Framingham epidemiology analyses. Core unit staff in each of these areas will be involved in four types of activities that will serve to realize the purposes of the Arthritis Center core: 1) integration of the multiple E/E/HSR and non-biomedical D + F projects detailed in this renewal grant; 2) supplementary support for these projects and for other project opportunities that will arise as the center evolves during the five year grant cycle; 3) technical support services for other basic and clinical research projects in this Arthritis Center for which this core has and will continue to provide important research support services; and (4) consultative support services for investigators in other arthritis research units. The core unit arrangement creates a network of resources that extends the function of staff beyond their specific project assignments and facilitates the efficient use of staff time. The hub of this central resource is the shared office space of members of this support unit which leads them to frequent interpersonal consultation and weekly staff meetings in which ongoing and proposed research projects are critically evaluated. The core service functions will provide supplemental support for projects in epidemiology and health care research funded through this proposal and for a number of other projects that are and will be funded from other sources. This core already provides substantial research support from multiple, externally funded projects and will continue to do so. The core will also provide critical start-up for new projects that evolve during the grant cycle. Furthermore, the core will provide service to other basic and clinical projects in the arthritis center and will enable our staff to continue their consultative support to researchers at other arthritis units.