The Vanderbilt University
Grant: $293,588 - National Institutes of Health - Sep. 21, 2009
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Award Description: This administrative supplement will support the creation and deployment of computer software that will enable each of the seven sites in IeDEA Region 2 (Caribbean, Central and South America) to transmit HIV epidemiology research data that is quality controlled and in a standard data format. The data format will be consistent with that used by major HIV cohort studies in international settings, and will enable sites to easily send updates and newly acquired longitudinal data such as clinical status, HIV comorbidities, drug names and doses, clinical observations, adverse events, and laboratory data in an automated fashion. This software will improve the speed with which the network can respond to data requests for new studies that arise both within the region and from other IeDEA regions, and thereby accelerate the tempo of scientific research and discovery. This supplement will address the data management methods used in the region with customized software that accommodates the wide variety of database systems already in place at research sties, and make it easier and faster to achieve the peer-reviewed and approved research goals of the parent grant. A plan for creating, testing and implementing standardized data formats has already been developed by the Vanderbilt data coordination center. This supplement will support the hiring of a dedicated programmer who will implement that plan by interacting with each of the research sites electronically via the Internet, using their current database structures as the starting point and writing a set of standardized but individualizable data reformatting, and quality assurance programs that output data in a common syntax that can be easily imported and merged with data from other sites. We anticipate that the project will require approximately two person-years of effort and will result in software utilities that make a lasting enhancement to the research capabilities of each of the seven sites in the region.
Project Description: This administrative supplement will support the creation and deployment of computer software that will enable each of the seven sites in IeDEA Region 2 (Caribbean, Central and South America) to transmit HIV epidemiology research data that is quality controlled and in a standard data format. The data format will be consistent with that used by major HIV cohort studies in international settings, and will enable sites to easily send updates and newly acquired longitudinal data such as clinical status, HIV comorbidities, drug names and doses, clinical observations, adverse events, and laboratory data in an automated fashion. This software will improve the speed with which the network can respond to data requests for new studies that arise both within the region and from other IeDEA regions, and thereby accelerate the tempo of scientific research and discovery. This supplement will address the data management methods used in the region with customized software that accommodates the wide variety of database systems already in place at research sties, and make it easier and faster to achieve the peer-reviewed and approved research goals of the parent grant. A plan for creating, testing and implementing standardized data formats has already been developed by the Vanderbilt data coordination center. This supplement will support the hiring of a dedicated programmer who will implement that plan by interacting with each of the research sites electronically via the Internet, using their current database structures as the starting point and writing a set of standardized but individualizable data reformatting, and quality assurance programs that output data in a common syntax that can be easily imported and merged with data from other sites. We anticipate that the project will require approximately two person-years of effort and will result in software utilities that make a lasting enhancement to the research capabilities of each of the seven sites in the region.
Jobs Summary: Not Applicable at this time. (Total jobs reported: 0)
Project Status: Not Started
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