Education/Resources
Tips on How to Develop, Run, and Publish your MCT
- EAST Minute - Multicenter Trials Pearls and Pitfalls
- A Guide on Organizing a Multicenter Clinical Trial: the WRIST study group by Kevin C. Chung, MD, MS, Jae W. Song, MD, and WRIST study group
- Challenges Associated with Multi-institutional Multi-site Clinical Trial Collaborations: Lessons from a Diabetes Self-Management Interventions Study in Primary Care by Samuel N Forjuoh, Janet W Helduser, Jane N Bolin and Marcia G Ory
- Conducting multicenter research in healthcare simulation: Lessons learned from the INSPIRE network by Adam Cheng, David Kessler, Ralph Mackinnon, Todd P. Chang, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Elizabeth A. Hunt, Jordan Duval-Arnould, Yiqun Lin, Martin Pusic and Marc Auerbach
Data Collection Tools
Please explore your institutional research resources as they may already have a Data Collection Tool, or a subscription to REDCap.
REDCap- https://www.project-redcap.org/
- Please note, you will be directed to the REDCap website when clicking on the link above.
- If you have questions or need assistance regarding REDCap please contact the central help desk email account redcap@vanderbilt.edu
Authorship
The determination for authorship is complex, especially in multicenter studies which requires thoughtful oversight and assurance. As such the following resources are available:
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE): http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html
- COPE: https://publicationethics.org/node/19906
Statistics
- How 2 Stats
- How2statsbook
- To obtain links to the PDF chapters please click here and download the Table of Contents.
Collaboration
EAST strives to collaborate with both The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Multi-Institutional Trials Committee and Western Trauma Association (WTA) Multicenter Trials Committee. Links to both of these respective organizations can be see below: