Collaborating with the GPC - Research Opportunity Assessment
The GPC supports a variety of collaboration opportunities for investigators and researchers ranging from feasibility counts and de-identified data to grant support and patient recruitment for trials. Each collaboration opportunity is unique and your next steps depend on your desired outcomes.
Our process begins with a Research Opportunity Assessment (ROA). Please see the requirements and different courses of action below.
Key requirements for collaboration:
- Have faculty status at a GPC institution OR have identified a GPC faculty collaborator to work with
- If you need to identify a GPC faculty collaborator for your study/project, complete this form to begin your request.
- Have funding support identified
- Projects in the planning/LOI stage may still be submitted for consideration if the associated study protocol and draft budget are in an advanced stage of development
- Have preliminarily identified which GPC sites would be ideal for your study
- Can provide the following information for review by the GPC's ROA Committee:
- Project proposal
- Project budget
- Biosketch of requesting party/Principal Investigator
- Documentation that a GPC faculty collaborator has been identified (if applicable) and is willing to work with you on this project
Process to Request Collaboration:
- Please submit your request to collaborate on the GPC Research Opportunity Assesment (ROA) form.
- The Research Opportunity Assessment (ROA) Committee will review your proposal.
- You may be contacted during this process with questions and/or feedback regarding your proposed project.
- Upon receiving preliminary approval by the ROA Committee, your project will be submitted to the GPC Governance Council for final review and approval.
- If approved, you may proceed with feasibility queries (if applicable) so that participating GPC sites and project budgets can be finalized.
- Collaboration terms, including conditions for services, payment arrangements and authorship, will also be finalized upon approval of the project by the GPC Governance Council.
Process to Request patient counts, de-identified data, or limited data:
- Have ROA approval (above)
- Work with your local site to develop a query and analyze data locally.
- Please submit your data request on the GPC Query and Data Request form. You will need the following information:
- Title of your research
- Saved search name in Babel, or a list of your search criteria. Work with your local Honest Broker to obtain.
- A data use description, if applicable
- Know which institutions you wish to query for data
- If requesting data for use – do you need a de-identified or limited data set?
- List of your study team members, including those at the GPC institutions you wish to query for data
- If requesting limited data, plan to upload IRB of record approval from your institution
- The data request oversight committee will review the request
- Data will be provided to you, likely via a REDCap project.
- Should your study result in a publication, please cite/acknowledge the GPC by using the grant number and publication listed below:
- Suggested acknowledgement: “The dataset(s) used for the analyses described were obtained from the Greater Plains Collaborative, which is supported by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (CDRN-1306-04631) and institutional funding from its member organizations.”
- Citation: Waitman LR, Aaronson LS, Nadkarni PM, Connolly DW, Campbell JR. The Greater Plains Collaborative: a PCORnet Clinical Research Data Network. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jul-Aug;21(4):637-41. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002756. Epub 2014 Apr 28. PMID: 24778202; PMCID: PMC4078294.
We look forward to working with you!