Data Coordinating Center for National Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network

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Data Coordinating Center for National Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network: The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is interested in research in pediatric critical care, and has issued a Request for Applications (RFA-HD-04-004 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-04-004.html) for the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network to support approximately six Core Clinical Centers in clinical, translational, and descriptive research to investigate the safety and efficacy of treatment and management strategies in the care of critically ill children. As well, the Network will support research to enhance understanding of the pathophysiology of critical illness in childhood and its relationship to morbidity and disability in childhood. The Network will be funded by Cooperative Agreements, and will include a Data Coordinating Center to provide statistical expertise, assistance in study and protocol design, and analysis for Network trials and studies. Additionally, the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) will support a registry of pediatric critical illness so that accurate epidemiology and trends in pediatric critical care may be tracked nationally. The resources of the DCC will be used to collect and analyze data, and the professional staff will collaborate in study selection and design with the Network Steering Committee. Data collection from non-Network sites or consortia, as well, will be managed by the DCC upon instruction of the Network Steering Committee. Areas of interest include all major areas of pathophysiology in pediatric critical illness.