# Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC): Data, Informatics and Statistics Core

> **NIH NIH U2C** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2020 · $161,831

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The primary goals of the U2C application are to increase the productivity and impact of the Palliative Care
Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) through facilitating the conduct of high-quality, effective clinical research
and expanding the number and expertise of palliative care researchers in conducting multi-site clinical trials. In
pursuit of these overall goals and objectives, the Data, Informatics and Statistics Core (DISC), one of four
Cores within the PCRC, strives to serve as a resource for the design of statistical analysis plans for multi-site
clinical trials and to provide quantitative and/or qualitative biostatistical support to the majority of multi-site
clinical trials and data-analysis projects using PCRC resources. The DISC's specific aims are: (1) to facilitate
collaborative, rigorous, multi-site, EOLPC research studies by providing resources pertinent to the design and
analysis of all stages of research ranging from formative to clinical trials; (2) to expand the PCRC Data
Repository, a warehouse of both qualitative and quantitative data from PCRC funded and supported studies
and other EOLPC research studies, to facilitate secondary data analyses; (3) to collaborate with the other
PCRC Cores (Measurement; Caregiver Research; and Clinical Studies/Methodology) and Centers to
accomplish the overall Specific Aims of the PCRC and the Core and Center specific aims; and (4) to work with
the Investigator Development Center (IDC) to educate and mentor PCRC investigators in statistical methods
and study design. Rigorous palliative care research cannot exist without a solid statistical foundation. The
DISC undertakes diverse set of tasks that are both topically-specific to the mission of the Core and interrelate
and integrate with the other PCRC Centers and Cores. The DISC serves as a catalyst to expand the capacity
of the PCRC to better quantify and understand the impact of serious illness and treatments on the health,
quality of life, and end-of-life trajectory of patients and caregivers through rigorous study design, conduct and
data capture/analysis.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9970252
- **Project number:** 5U2CNR014637-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** Kathryn Louise Colborn
- **Activity code:** U2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $161,831
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9970252

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9970252, Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC): Data, Informatics and Statistics Core (5U2CNR014637-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9970252. Licensed CC0.

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