We asked the makers of FAL such questions as: How were they running their sites, coping with limited resources, deciding on which projects to undertake, and managing relationships with data sources?
CEA helped design the study, supervised its conduct, undertook searches and managed the resulting datasets, co-ordinated hard copy acquisition and distribution, helped co-ordinate reliability checks, manage data and draft the final report.
"Essentially, it's one of the most intense searches humanity has ever undertaken, and it's managed to be done almost perfectly in secret... until now when we were 100percentt sure," he says.
BL: Undertook data collection and managed, liaison with the service, undertook analysis and contributed towards the full report to the funders.
AD undertook the data linkage and managed the data.
MB, ND, JB, and BP undertook recruitment of patients and managed the data, including quality control.
TM undertook the data linkage and managed and analysed the data.
NM, MV and KM undertook recruitment of students and managed the data, including quality control.
independently undertook the aforementioned search and managed the search results using Note Express 2 software.
CLF, VWYS, MWLP and HA conceived the study, designed the trial, supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection, undertook recruitment of patients and managed the data, including quality control.
