CORE--RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SUPPORT UNIT

波士顿大学MAMDC强调卫生服务研究和 风湿病流行病学自1977年关节炎中心成立以来。 请拨的资金将继续支持这一核心的活动。 作为卫生服务、流行病学和其他方面的中心资源 在这个关节炎中心进行研究。具体地说，为五个人寻求资金 关键支助服务：1)管理；2)项目设计和 评价；3)统计服务；4)计算机服务；5)进行中 弗雷明翰流行病学分析。上述每个领域的核心单位工作人员 将参与四种类型的活动，以实现 关节炎中心核心的目的：1)整合多个 E/E/HSR和本续期赠款中详细说明的非生物医学D+F项目； 2)对这些项目和其他项目的补充支助 在五年内，随着中心的发展而出现的机会 Grant Cycle；3)其他基础和临床的技术支持服务 在这个关节炎中心的研究项目，这个核心已经并将 继续提供重要的研究支援服务；及 为其他关节炎研究的研究人员提供咨询支持服务 单位。 核心单元布置创建了一个资源网络，该网络扩展了 工作人员超越其特定项目任务的职能，并促进 员工时间的有效利用。此中央资源的中心是 该支助单位成员的共享办公空间使他们能够 频繁的人际协商和每周的工作人员会议， 对正在进行的和拟议的研究项目进行严格的评估。其核心是 服务职能将为以下项目提供补充支持 通过这项提案资助的流行病学和卫生保健研究以及 现在和将来都将从其他来源获得资金的一些其他项目。 这个核心已经提供了来自多个、 这是一个由外部资金资助的项目，并将继续这样做。核心也将 为在赠款期间发展的新项目提供关键启动 周而复始。此外，该核心还将为其他基础和 关节炎中心的临床项目，将使我们的工作人员能够 继续为其他关节炎的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.