title: The nurse liaison role in the cooperative group setting.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the history of nurse involvement within the cooperative group environment, define the role of the nurse liaison, identify challenges for the nurse in interdisciplinary research, and explore future trends of nurse involvement in cooperative group studies.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published articles, government reports, and Web sites.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurse liaisons provide a nursing perspective to the design of cooperative group trials and ensure that nursing and patient feasibility issues about the trial are addressed, and provide guidance to nurses at participating institutions, as well as their home institution.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The nurse liaison must be committed to their cooperative group role. Because of their proximity in time and space to the patient, nurse liaisons have a unique vantage point that can provide meaningful feedback for all stages of protocol development, implementation, and evaluation.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Klinger
authors.forename: Ilene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Galinsky
authors.forename: Wanda
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: DeKrey
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy; D024802:Nurse's Role
keywords: Cooperative group; liaison; nurse; protocol; research