The Defense Health Program, through agreement with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) is the lead DOD component funding the NTRR database. This database is a free resource to the trauma community designed to accelerate comparative effectiveness research. To assist in estimating the effort for a person responsible for submitting data to NTRR (such as a data manager), a NTRR Submission Cost Model was developed. To support the costs associated with data submission, include the NTRR Submission Cost Model into the budget of your grant application.
In addition to cost estimates, researchers should also include in their grant application the additional roles and responsibilities of the person responsible for submitting data to the NTRR. Below is a job description for a data manager or someone similar interacting with the NTRR:
Summary of Qualifications
The NTRR data submitter is responsible for managing data shared with the NTRR database. He or she is responsible for the creation, updating, maintenance and validation of clinical study data for the NTRR and for the provision of computerized reports of these data. He or she is a key member of the clinical project team and should be able to manage the submitted data in compliance with NTRR standard operating procedures and guidelines.
Example Tasks
- Use existing CDEs and/or create unique data elements related to your research study
- Use existing NTRR form structures and/or create new form structures related to your research study
- Generate GUIDs for each subject in your study
- Format study data to conform to NTRR CSV file templates
- Create Studies in the NTRR
- Validate data using the NTRR Validation Tool
- Build a submission package(s) to upload to the NTRR
- Provide quarterly submissions of inclusion (phenotypic) data over the life of the grant and one final submission of experimental data