title: Fostering international multicenter collaborative research: the CAPO Project.
abstract: The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization (CAPO) was created in 1999, with the goal to facilitate international research in the field of pneumonia. This manuscript reviews the development of CAPO, summarises the core clinical study and functions of the project's statistical and data coordinating center and describes current research opportunities. Investigators may be interested in joining the CAPO research team or applying the CAPO model for international collaboration to other areas of clinical research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA. j.ramirez@louisville.edu
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ramirez
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000628:therapy*; D011787:Quality of Health Care