Cores
Our Cores work together to deliver interdisciplinary consultative services to accelerate clinical research to prevent or control rheumatic/musculoskeletal diseases and conditions and the poor outcomes associated with them.
Our Symphony Meeting serves as an entry point to FIRST-DailyLife, attended by your team and representatives from each of our Cores, for integrated recommendations, not given from methodologic silos.
Investigators at all stages of work are welcome.
Administrative Core
- Identifies high-impact projects and teams working in areas of our mission, applies FIRST-DailyLife to help them to develop while maintaining high rigor
- Optimizes communication, cooperation, collaboration
- Brings together investigators from different disciplines
- Fosters training and development of researchers, and supports their development of clinical research applications for independent funding
- Disseminates our advancements
- Evaluates FIRST-DailyLife on an ongoing basis
Methodologic Core
- Enhances methodologic training environment
- Provides methodologic, consultative, and collaborative capabilities regarding:
- a) study design and data collection methods
- b) statistical science and analysis
- c) epidemiology
- d) behavioral science
- e) nutritional science
- f) implementation science/innovative study design
- g) economic evaluation/decision science
- h) genomics/bioinformatics
- i) clinical informatics
- j) data management
- Provides access to research databases
ASSIST-DailyLife Resource Core
- Includes 3 sub-cores: Person-Centered Outcomes Assessment & Technology; Accelerometer Measurement of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep; Behavioral Intervention Technologies
- Provides consultation to support design and implementation of platforms for multi-modal assessment and health interventions incorporating real-world:
- a) self-report of health, symptoms, and life satisfaction, and performance-based function
- b) accelerometer monitoring to assess physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep
- c) mobile, web, tablet, and sensor-based applications that identify real-world behavioral markers