The leadership team is responsible for the project’s management decisions and the daily management of this collaboration. A series of conference calls with the contributing investigative teams discussed and reviewed many issues in the design of the meta-analysis. The leadership team, in collaboration with individual study sites, developed the initial protocol based on these discussions. The coordinating team at Washington University developed the analysis scripts and will perform the meta-analysis. External beta testers for the scripts were essential for the production and distribution of high-quality scripts to the consortium members.
