Effectiveness Research on Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients - RCU

描述(由申请人提供)： 住院患者戒烟研究联盟将包括5-6个独立的类似ROI的研究项目和一个研究协调单位(RCU)。RCU将促进这些研究项目(也称为主要研究站点或PRS)之间的合作，目标是采取一些共同的措施和数据收集程序，以促进合并多个PRSS的结果数据。使用这些合并的数据将提高科学生产率，并使该联盟能够解决其他可能超出单个项目范围的研究问题。为了支持这些目标，RCU将向财团提供行政和后勤服务，首先是组织一个财团指导委员会(SC)，并帮助SC成立小组委员会来完成具体任务。该联盟的主要早期目标将包括选择一套用于研究项目的通用衡量标准，并制定对这些数据进行协作分析的计划。RCU将运用其在类似研究联盟中的丰富领导经验，通过为所有委员会提供工作人员支持，并通过实施一个联盟网站来共享会议纪要、研究方案、数据收集工具、合作论文草稿和其他联盟文件，从而促进这些努力。区域协调股还将实施一个安全的数据传输网站，以支持协作数据分析，以及一个基于网络的跟踪系统，用于监测协作写作小组的进展情况。在完成数据分析后，RCU将帮助传播联合会的研究成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients Research Consortium will include 5-6 separate ROI-like research programs and a Research Coordination Unit (RCU). The RCU will promote collaboration between these research projects (also known as primary research sites or PRSs), with a goal of adopting some common measures and data collection procedures to facilitate combining outcome data across multiple PRSs. Using these combined data will increase scientific productivity and allow the Consortium to address additional research questions that might othenwise be beyond the scope of a single project. In support of these objectives the RCU will provide administrative and logistic services to the Consortium starting with organizing a Consortium steering committee (SC), and helping the SC to form subcommittees to accomplish specific tasks. Major early goals for the Consortium will include selecting a set of common measurements for use in the research projects, and developing plans for collaborative analyses of those data. The RCU will apply it's considerable leadership experience in similar research consortia to facilitate these efforts by providing staff support for all committees and by implementing a consortium website for sharing meeting minutes, study protocols, data collection instruments, drafts of collaborative papers, and other Consortium documents. The RCU will also implement a secure data transfer website to support collaborative data analyses, and a web-based tracking system for monitoring progress of collaborative writing groups. Following the completion of data analyses, the RCU will help to disseminate Consortium research findings.