Data management workflows have become increasingly more automated with adoption of modern technologies as they became available, making the system efficient enough to handle core data as well as all one-time research data generated within NTL and several related projects.
Tracing was undertaken by one full time and one part time research assistant both of whom had no previous tracing experience.
"It is simply not possible at any one time to research effectively, teach well, deal with endless administrative demands, put in major grant bids, be permanently available to students, mark (often lots of) work and have some kind of sensible, balanced work-life ratio.
For our adaptation we guesstimated roughly one full-time senior-level position and one full-time research assistant for half a year to conduct the adaptation study and one full-time senior-level position for IT support for 2 months.
Nor did her three full-time and one part-time research assistants help her.
In West Virginia, one full-time research team rotated among four clinical examination sites.
One full-time research assistant was employed to co-ordinate the formal CME sessions, academic detailing and follow-up packages.
One full-time research podiatrist or research nurse was appointed to screen diabetic patients in the GP practices, diabetes centers, and hospital outpatient clinics for each district.
(Did you know the legendary quarterback was a stem cell supporter? Yep. He and I even spoke together at a spinal cord injury research dinner one time!).
Pharmacists were sampled randomly from rural and urban pharmacies, and individuals participated at only one time point, to minimise their research load.
