These findings were unrelated to investigator background.
The aims of this study are to identify general and trial-specific problems encountered in recruiting patients to SEND, PET-Neck and HOPON, evaluating the differences attributable to trial design, centre type and investigator background.
The data collection team, consisting of six investigators with background in economics or finance, was involved with the refinement of the instruments and received extensive training to ensure a standardised approach to data collection.
One solution he's pushing at NIH is to have an investigator's biosketch, a statement about the investigator's background and research accomplishments, discuss how his or her work has contributed to the field and rely less on whether they've published in high impact journals.
The research steering group will comprise of the investigators, with backgrounds including pharmacy, general practice, geriatrics, and pharmacology.
The VetCaReS project team is led by principal investigators with backgrounds in clinical psychology and internal medicine, both specialists in gerontology/geriatrics.
For each investigator, age, background, research and policy experience, roles in the project (in what activities involved) and formal and informal roles in relevant decision-making processes are described (e.g. in advisory committees, policy processes).
Investigators with backgrounds in neuropsychology, geriatric dentistry, elderly care medicine, and pain medicine will study in close cooperation the presence and type of pain, in various stages of the four main subtypes of dementia (AD, VaD, FTD and DLB).
Finally, the effect of feedback to the attending physician on the presence of pain, based on examination by investigators with backgrounds in neuropsychology, geriatric dentistry and elderly care medicine, will be evaluated.
The main investigators have backgrounds in psychiatry or psychology and substantial experience in conducting qualitative research (ARL, a psychiatrist, heads the qualitative research team within national research unit U669; JS is a special registrar in child psychiatry; ML is a psychiatrist-researcher; MO is a psychologist and PhD candidate).
