NCMRR-DC Core Molecular & Functional Outcome Measures in Rehabilitation Medicine

描述(由申请人提供)：医疗康复是一项跨年龄段的研究和临床关注。早产儿需要多种类型的康复(身体、呼吸、职业)，脑瘫和脊柱裂的儿童有广泛的康复需求。患有脊髓、脑和四肢创伤的成年人都需要广泛的康复支持。研究改善功能结果，并了解特定残疾的病理生理学，对于患者的生活质量以及医疗保健系统的负担都是重要的。我们NCMRR-DC核心的目标是在康复研究的分子和功能结果指标上提供技术服务和培训。在前一次获奖期间，我们的NCMRR Core为32个机构的108名主要调查人员提供了服务和培训，处理和分析了&gt；4500个样本。教学和外联工作包括对外部调查人员进行3500小时的现场培训、95次特邀讲座、29次在国内和国际会议上的发言，以及组织编写和传播职能成果衡量标准作业程序的讲习班。在这一竞争性更新应用中，PI扩展了他们的分子结果服务和培训，将小鼠和人类的功能结果包括在内。这些措施包括临床评估员服务和培训、小鼠功能测试设施，以及促进在先前存在的强调功能结果的人类队列中进行辅助研究。这些新的资源是在过去四年中建立的，被国际康复研究界大量利用，现在被提议作为NCMRR-DC核心的一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Medical rehabilitation is a research and clinical concern across the age span. Premature infants require rehabilitation of multiple types (physical, respiratory, occupational), children with cerebral palsy and spina bifida have extensive rehabilitation needs. Adults with spinal cord, brain, and limb trauma all require extensive rehabilitation support. Research to improve functional outcomes, and understand the pathophysiology of specific disabilities is important, both for patient quality of life, as well as burden on the health care system. The goal of our NCMRR-DC Core is to provide technical services and training across both molecular and functional outcome measures in rehabilitation research. During the previous award period, our NCMRR Core provided services and training to 108 principal investigators in 32 institutions, with processing and analysis of >4,500 samples. Didactic and outreach efforts included >3,500 hrs of on-site training of external investigators, 95 invited lectures, 29 presentations at national and international conferences, and organization of workshops to write and disseminate standard operating procedures for functional outcome measures. In this competitive renewal application, the PIs have extended their molecular outcomes services and training to include murine and human functional outcomes. These include clinical evaluator services and training, a murine functional testing facility, and facilitation of ancillary studies in pre-existing human cohorts emphasizing functional outcomes. These new resources have been established over the last 4 years, have been heavily utilized by the international rehabilitation research community, and are now proposed as a part of the NCMRR-DC Core.