title: Data Collection and Harmonization in HIV Research: The Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain Initiative at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
abstract: Large-scale, multisite data sets offer the potential for exploring the public health benefits of biomedical interventions. Data harmonization is an emerging strategy to increase the comparability of research data collected across independent studies, enabling research questions to be addressed beyond the capacity of any individual study. The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently implemented this novel strategy to prospectively collect and harmonize data across 22 independent research studies developing and empirically testing interventions to effectively deliver an HIV continuum of care to diverse drug-abusing populations. We describe this data collection and harmonization effort, collectively known as the Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain Data Collection and Harmonization Initiative, which can serve as a model applicable to other research endeavors.
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Redonna K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Chandler
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Shoshana Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kahana
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Bennett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Dionne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Matthew S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Finger
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Will M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Aklin
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hamill
authors.affiliation: Redonna K. Chandler, Shoshana Y. Kahana, Bennett Fletcher, Dionne Jones, Matthew S. Finger, Will M. Aklin, and Kathleen Hamill are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Candace Webb is with Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD.
authors.forename: Candace
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Webb
mesh_terms: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D003416:Criminal Law; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic / Q000379:methods; D054577:National Institute on Drug Abuse (U.S.); D011446:Prospective Studies; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents