Community field workers will collect local home birth and death data from community liaisons and key informants.
A data structure for liaison has been developed to cluster the attributes of the liaison based on the level of abstraction.
SK represented the Cherokee Nation and provided support for personnel selection, subject recruitment, data collection and liaison during the study.
A risk in adopting the approach we advocate is that without structured, representative systems for community liaison, data generated in participatory workshops might be misleading and attempting to respond to the issues raised, counter-productive.
The team includes University of Massachusetts researchers (the study joint principal investigators, project manager, psychologist, health economist, biostatistician) and the Fallon Clinic researchers (the site manager, physician liaison, data analyst, schedulers and counselors).
The MSCC included the trial investigators as well as coordinators responsible for the clinical, counselling, social science, data, recruitment, retention, community liaison, laboratory and pharmacy components of the trial.
The information in individual systems was seen to belong to that organization, with common data managed by the liaison nurses day to day.
BL: Undertook data collection and managed, liaison with the service, undertook analysis and contributed towards the full report to the funders.
However, none of our patients was under D2 therapy and a cross-calibration data with another assay (Liaison, Diasorin) in 30 patients showed high correlation (r = 0.92; p < 0.0001) (data not shown).
VJ Adams: overall planning, drafting questionnaire, community liaison, counselling, medical liaison, field management, data processing, checking text.
