Collaborating Sites
My team and I agree that the best proposal would be a multi-site project. I have several cardiac rehabilitation programs that I have been doing research at in the past. It is different this time in that this is an implementation research project and I will be actually proposing to change what they currently do for the study. This is asking a lot of a health care organization and involves politics, money, personnel, etc. No wonder we don’t have many true implementation grants – it is hard and messy compared to just doing a randomized trial alongside usual care.
So, it is time to get off my duff and go out and talk with the leaders of these sites as to their interest in this project. I have emailed them asking for an appointment. I hope to meet with them prior to the first of the year. The decision of multi-site or not is a big one and I need to make it soon. I’ll let you know how these meetings go.
Comments
Posted by: Jill K
Posted on: December 18, 2009 02:55 PM
With an implementation study what are you doing about power since each site is a sample of one ?(what we were told in seminar) The sample size is the number of sites and not the number of participants doing the new intervention in the study site.