Mr. Greenberg has the upper hand here, narratively at least, because he was among the lower-level therapists — "collaborative investigators," in the association's terminology — who agreed to supply data in field trials to help undergird the book's conclusions.
There was no significant gender difference in work as principal investigator, likely due to the small numbers involved, but the female physicians were less frequently collaborative investigators.
APH: collaborative investigator on IAEA project, development of research protocol, revision of manuscript.
While this bias is a concern for retrospective meta-analyses, it should not be an issue for a prospective collaborative GWA investigation performed within a consortium of investigators.
The options include: (i) a study investigator responding ad hoc to individual requests for data; (ii) establishing informal collaborative networks among investigators with common interests to conduct focused analyses (e.g. data pooling); and (iii) regular deposits of study data in a data enclave or externally-managed public archive.
The challenges of designing clinical trials in pediatric heart failure can only be overcome by a collaborative approach amongst investigators, patients, governmental agencies and pharmaceutical companies.
What they call "radically collaborative research" involves investigators with different forms of expertise, as in Hardwig's example, and as is now common across many fields, collaborating to generate an experimental result.
They have their own established collaborative networks of investigators, research assistants, and other research personnel to support work.
The MBS is a collaborative effort involving investigators at IFAR, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMASS), and Boston University.
The TaiChi consortium was formed through a collaborative effort between investigators based in the USA and Taiwan.
This prospective study was performed in 13 tertiary level NICUs in 9 cities in Canada by members of the Paediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC).
