Trial success requires careful nurturing of many collaborators, with regular collaborator meetings an essential ingredient of the esprit de corps.
Outputs from the project will include scientific papers, summary reports in formats designed for policy audiences and presentations given at conferences, collaborator meetings and reference group meetings.
Outputs from the project will include scientific papers, summary reports in formats designed for policy audiences and presentations at conferences, collaborator meetings and reference group meetings.
The collaborator meetings also brought indirect skill development as they enabled exposure to other disciplines that the collaborators did not readily access: "Through the meetings I have been able to learn about project planning and implementation".
We propose to perform exhaustive Monte Carlo simulations in an iterative design approach that consists of two steps: 1) preparation by the modeler, and 2) a multi-collaborator meeting.
January/February 2006 March 200606: held one large face-to-face investigator-collaborator meeting, proposal submitted for ethical review to local Montreal/Toronto hospitals, recruitment began in Montreal and Toronto.
This protocol will be interactively presented and explained in detail at a national collaborators meeting.
The final Collaborators' meeting, at which the results will be presented for discussion, is scheduled for 2006 in Oxford, UK.
In addition to this, further details during discussions with primary investigators at a collaborators meeting, may shed light on specific problems encountered during study execution, and resolve differences due to the use of different definitions.
At the end of the pilot we will call a collaborators meeting of representatives of about 50 UK centres at the RCOG at which the pilot data will be presented, a range of trial designs will be presented, feasibility will be discussed and a final decision will be taken.
