Research Committee

ISCCM – Clinical Research Subcommittee
Draft proposal – 16th April 2006

1. Subcommittee should consist of:

• Convenor
• President ISCCM (ex officio)
• Secretary ISCCM (ex officio)
• Convenor – Certicifate course(ex officio)
• Member – adult section
• Member – adult section
• Extra member – for first 2 years
• Extra member – for first 2 years
• Member – pediatric section
• Member – pediatric section

2. Agenda for 2006-2007

• Prepare formal guidelines for conducting research under the ISCCM Clinical Research Subcommittee guidance
• Set up ISCCM Clinical Research Network
  • Set guidelines for centers to be included
  • Identify centers – All certificate course centers + any other centers meeting criteria
  • Conduct 2 studies
  • Invite proposals for studies to be done in 2007-2008

3. Procedure for conduction a specific study

• Identify central coordinator for the specific study
• Prepare / submit a formal p0rotocol, including data analysis plan
• Protocol to be peer-reviewed by a “Protocol Review committee” of ISCCM
  • Will identify studies to be conducted
  • Suggest modifications to improve study design, protocol
  • Recommendations will be sent to central study coordinator for incorporation
• Identify centers who wish to participate in the study
• Select centers to participate in study
• Identify persons who are responsible for data analysis.
• Identify who are going to be authors – names and sequence
  Suggest – central study coordinator, 2-3 others involved in planning, conduct and analysis + 2-3 of centers contributing maximum number of patients / data
• Approval of “Ethics Committee of all study centers
• Conduct of study
• End of study – data cleaning up, analysis
• Prepare report for circulation to participating centers, research subcommittee and Protocol Review Committee that had initially reviewed the protocol
• Present abstract at an appropriate conference
• Publication

4. Financial support:

• Support for the Research Subcommittee activities
  • Correspondence
  • Stationery – paper, printer ink, etc
  • Secretarial assistance - later
• Support for a specific study
  • For coordinator
    • Correspondence
    • Preparing case record forms(CRFs)
  • For centers
    • Correspondence
    • Mailing completed CRFs to coordinator
  • For data analysis – data entry operator, statistician

Suggested members

Research Subcommittee

Convenor                         Farhad Kapadia

President ISCCM               R K Mani

Secretary ISCCM              C K Jani

Certificate Course            Shivakumar Lyer

Members                           Farhad Kapadia
                                         J V Divatia
                                         Subhash Todi
                                         Dhruv Chaudhry
                                         Praveen Khilnani (pediatric)
                                         Sunit Singhi (pediatric)

Protocol Review Committee
Dr Ram Rajagopalan                            Chennai
Dr Vijayalakshmi Kamast                      Chennai
Dr J V Peter Vellore Dr Atul Kulkarni    Mumbai
Dr S Ramsubban                                  Kolkatta

Referees
Any persons with special expertise depending on specific study proposed
List can be obtained from Editor of IJCCM