RESEARCH DATA ACQUISITION & MANAGEMENT NETWORK

这项提案的目的是建立一个数据采集和 亚利桑那大学护理学院管理网络 它将包括唯一配置的本地计算机网络 在护理学院内设计作为主机系统和一个 远程工作站终端的星座。通过工作站 主机网络将可能共享(1)外围设备(磁盘存储， 打印机、绘图仪等)；(2)用于数据收集的应用软件， 处理和分析；(3)计算机与计算机之间的信息 护理学院内的其他使用者；及(4) 外部计算机系统，包括 亚利桑那大学的数据管理网络 工程和采矿以及其他可访问的计算机系统 国家。网络的远程元件是便携式计算机和 可“异地”携带到医院和临床实验室 作为数据收集点。建立的目标是 该数据采集和管理网络及其便携功能 包括：1.为了向每个用户提供唯一配置状态 为高级计算机设计的ART、工作站 由调查员计划的应用(例如，计算机驱动的分析 模拟数据；计算机驱动的研究协议，图形分析 程序)；2.为每个用户提供集中的硬件和 用于经济高效的数据操作、存储和管理的软件资源 检索；3.为每个用户提供一台共享的中央计算机 一种以微型计算机为基础的设施，功能强大，足以汇聚 数据集并创建执行以下操作所需的数据库 元分析和心理测量分析程序；4.提供 每个用户具有用于促进数据之间通信的工具 多点研究和研究人员之间的收集地点 学院和国内其他地区的研究人员；5.提供 拥有共享便携设备的用户组，这些设备将用于“床边” 计算机提供的实验治疗的管理和 数字和模拟数据集合，可以传输到 用于分析和存储的主机系统。

The purpose of this proposal is to establish a Data Acquisition and Management Network at the University of Arizona, College of Nursing which would encompass a uniquely configured local computer network within the College of Nursing designed to serve as the host system and a constellation of remote workstation terminals. Through the workstations host network it will be possible to share (1) peripherals (disk storage, printers, plotters, etc.); (2) application software for data collection, processing and analysis; (3) information between computers and with other users within the College of Nursing; and (4) information between outside computer systems including the mainframe computer system of the University of Arizona, the data management network at the College of Engineering and Mines and other accessible computer systems in the country. The remote elements of the network are portable computers and can be carried "off site" to hospital and clinical laboratories which are serving as data collection sites. The objectives for establishing this Data Acquisition and Management Network with its portable features include: 1. to provide each user with a uniquely configured, state of the art, workstation that is designed for the advanced computer applications planned by the investigator (e.g., computer-driven analysis of analog data; computer-driven research protocols, graphical analysis procedures); 2. to provide each user with centralized hardware and software resources for cost-effective data manipulation, storage and retrieval; 3. to provide each user with a shared, centralized computer facility which is microcomputer-based and sufficiently powerful to pool the data sets and to create the data bases required for performing meta-analysis and for psychometric analysis procedures; 4. to provide each user with a vehicle for facilitating communication among data collection sites in multi-site studies and among researchers within the College and researchers in other parts of the country; 5. to provide the user group with shared, portable units that will be used for "bedside" administration of computer-delivered experimental treatments and for the collection of digital and analog data that can be transferred to the host system for analysis and storage.