Patient Recruitment and Data Analysis

患者招募和数据分析核心（PRDAC）是经验丰富的研究人员的集合， 人员和物质资源，将为哮喘和过敏性疾病合作研究中心（AADCRC）申请提供重要的基础设施支持。PRDAC由Jerry A博士领导。克里希南， 医学博士，医学和流行病学副教授，医学系主任 数据管理和统计核心，以及具有临床专业知识的委员会认证的肺科医生 哮喘的调查。丹尼古拉博士，博士，人类遗传学和统计学副教授，将 担任PRDAC的首席统计师，并将担任核心共同负责人。PRDAC将负责 管理临床研究参与者的招募以及高质量数据的表现 此AADCRC应用程序的管理和统计分析功能。参与者招募是一个 临床研究最苛刻的方面，以及它所需要的专业知识和资源， 低估我们目前正在为多项NIH资助的气道疾病研究招募受试者， 这项工作使我们能够发展适当的专业知识，并了解所需的资源 成功筛选、接近和入组研究受试者，收集临床、生理和生物学数据 （包括支气管镜检查的气道标本）使用研究协议，并执行高质量的数据 管理/统计分析。我们利用这一集体经验， PRDAC和PRDAC预算。这三个项目将从一个共同的患者库中招募， 哮喘因此，我们选择通过PRDAC协调我们的招聘工作，以：1）消除 需要重复或竞争与征聘有关的资源，从而提高 我们的研究者达到了招募目标，2）确保哮喘的基线特征是一致的， 跨项目使用，允许交叉研究综合结果的机会。PRDAC将 负责协调和编写患者招募和人体受试者研究报告 由芝加哥大学IRB和 NIAID项目官员。此外，PRDAC将与项目负责人和共同研究者合作， 其他项目/核心，以确保通过报告、摘要和手稿及时传递调查结果。的 因此，PRDAC将有助于有效和成功地完成每个项目中建议的研究 并促进综合和传播从各种研究中获得的知识。

The Patient Recruitment and Data Analysis Core (PRDAC) is an assembly of experienced investigators, staff, and material resources that will provide vital infrastructure support to this Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Center (AADCRC) application. The PRDAC is headed by Dr. Jerry A. Krishnan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Director of the Department of Medicine Data Management and Statistics Core, and a board-certified pulmonary physician with expertise in clinical investigation in asthma. Dr. Dan Nicolae, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Statistics, will be the lead statistician in the PRDAC and will serve as core co-Leader. The PRDAC will be responsible for managing the recruitment of participants for the clinical studies as well as the performance of high quality data management and statistical analysis functions for this AADCRC application. Participant recruitment is one of the most demanding aspects of clinical studies and the expertise and resources it requires are frequently underestimated. We are currently recruiting subjects for multiple NIH-funded studies in airway disease and this work has allowed us to develop the appropriate expertise and an understanding of the resources needed to successfully screen, approach, and enroll study subjects, to collect clinical, physiologic, and biological data (including airway specimens from bronchoscopy) using research protocols, and to perform high-quality data management/statistical analysis. We have taken advantage of this collective experience in designing the proposed PRDAC and PRDAC budget. The three projects will recruit from a common pool of patients with asthma. Therefore, we elected to coordinate our recruitment efforts through the PRDAC to: 1) eliminate the need to duplicate or to compete for recruitment-related resources, thereby improving the efficiency with which our investigators meet enrollment targets, and 2) ensure that a uniform baseline characterization of asthma is employed across projects, permitting the opportunity for cross-study syntheses of findings. The PRDAC will be responsible for coordinating and developing reports for patient recruitment and human subjects research activities for our Data Safety and Monitoring Plan for review by the University of Chicago IRB and by the NIAID Project officer. In addition, the PRDAC will collaborate with project leaders and co-investigators within other projects/cores to ensure a timely transmission of findings via reports, abstracts, and manuscripts. The PRDAC, therefore, will facilitate the efficient and successful completion of studies proposed in each project and promote the synthesis and dissemination of knowledge gained across the various studies.