Stevens Victor J, Donald Judy
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, 3800 North Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97227, USA.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Nov;15 Suppl 1:69S-71S. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.389.
This paper describes the role of the Coordinating Center for a seven-project consortium funded through a common request for applications. The seven studies are focusing on prevention and treatment of obesity at worksites. These projects are being conducted at different types of work sites that have diverse employee populations. The Center's functions include identifying opportunities for collaboration, encouraging communication among the project investigators, facilitating the adoption of common measures, combining data from two or more projects to achieve greater statistical power, and pooling data on measures such as physical activity, work productivity, health care use, and return on investment. To these ends, the Coordinating Center helped to develop a committee structure within the consortium, established a communications and data transmission web site, and arranged conference calls, committee meetings, and paper writing groups. The development and implementation of these functions are described in this paper.
本文描述了通过共同申请资助的一个七项目联盟的协调中心的作用。这七个研究聚焦于工作场所肥胖症的预防和治疗。这些项目在不同类型、拥有不同员工群体的工作场所开展。该中心的职能包括识别合作机会、鼓励项目研究者之间的交流、促进采用共同的测量方法、合并来自两个或更多项目的数据以获得更强的统计效力，以及汇总诸如身体活动、工作效率、医疗保健使用和投资回报率等测量指标的数据。为此，协调中心协助在联盟内建立了一个委员会结构，设立了一个通信和数据传输网站，并安排了电话会议、委员会会议和论文写作小组。本文介绍了这些职能的制定和实施情况。
