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Enclosed is a very rough draft of a proposal for our project. Please take a look at it. We need to do the following:
1) Write a brief background & significance section (see enclosed article for ideas and bibliography)
Eventually we need to do a literature search
2) Fill in the holes in the data we collect (i.e. think about definitions for CAD & where to find the information - see table in proposal)
3) Budget - for now nothing, but we may wish to obtain some funding from our dept's small grants program later
Feel free to make changes to the document.
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Good news! I talked with Dr. Thatcher (research cmtee chair). We will be able to use the data abstractors for our project! I'm going to try and meet with them next week - I'll let you know a time and place to see if any of you can join me.
Sample size looks like 103 cases and 206 controls (assumed 2:1 ratio) - very doable with our numbers for 1yr on the service.
I think we definitely should submit this to the IRB so we can attempt to publish our findings later.
I would encourage all of you to go thru the IRB certification/training process if you haven't already. The old process took about 20min, I assume this new one is roughly the same. You need to do that before you can be listed as a co-investigator.
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