Resilience in research: TORPEDO-CF

Archivist was so pleased to see this wonderful publication. Sometimes studies take a long time from inception to publication and final clinical impact. Simon Langton-Hewer and team have to be congratulated. October 2011 to January 2017 was the recruitment period, but those who have been involved with large multicentre studies realise that it can take years (... and I do mean years; from the idea, to develop the protocol, set up a network, get stake holders on board, involve parents and children, get the grant, ethics approval, permissions and contracts from each research and development department of each Trust or NHS board involved ...before) to recruit sufficient numbers to answer your question (... and then data clean, analyses, draft and redraft, present at meetings and deal with the questions, get a paper submitted, respond to editors’ and referees’ comments and then get the paper out). Once the paper is...

from Archives of Disease in Childhood current issue https://ift.tt/3qC9WAL