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The Bridging Advanced Developments for Exceptional
Rehabilitation (BADER) Consortium: Reaching in Partnership
for Optimal Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Outcomes
Steven J. Stanhope, PhD*; Jason M. Wilken, PhD, MPT†‡; Alison L. Pruziner, PT, DPT, ATC‡§;
Christopher L. Dearth, PhD‡§; Marilynn Wyatt, MA, PT∥; CAPT Gregg W. Ziemke, MSC USN (Ret.)¶;
Rachel Strickland, MBA*; Suzanne A. Milbourne, PhD, OTR/L**; Kenton R. Kaufman, PhD††
ABSTRACT The Bridging Advanced Developments for Exceptional Rehabilitation (BADER) Consortium began in
September 2011 as a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense (DoD) Congressionally Directed Medical
Research Programs Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program. A partnership was formed with DoD Military
Treatment Facilities (MTFs), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Centers, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
academia, and industry to rapidly conduct innovative, high-impact, and sustainable clinically relevant research. The
BADER Consortium has a unique research capacity-building focus that creates infrastructures and strategically connects
and supports research teams to conduct multiteam research initiatives primarily led by MTF and VA investigators.
BADER relies on strong partnerships with these agencies to strengthen and support orthopaedic rehabilitation
research. Its focus is on the rapid forming and execution of projects focused on obtaining optimal functional outcomes
for patients with limb loss and limb injuries. The Consortium is based on an NIH research capacity-building model that
comprises essential research support components that are anchored by a set of BADER-funded and initiative-launching
studies. Through a partnership with the DoD/VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence, the BADER
Consortium
’s research initiative-launching program has directly supported the identification and establishment of eight
BADER-funded clinical studies. BADER
’s Clinical Research Core (CRC) staff, who are embedded within each of the
MTFs, have supported an additional 37 non-BADER Consortium-funded projects. Additional key research support infra-
structures that expedite the process for conducting multisite clinical trials include an omnibus Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement and the NIH Clinical Trials Database. A 2015 Defense Health Board report highlighted the
Consortium
’s vital role, stating the research capabilities of the DoD Advanced Rehabilitation Centers are significantly
enhanced and facilitated by the BADER Consortium.
INTRODUCTION
The signi
ficant traumatic injuries to limbs sustained by service
members during combat deployments in Operations Enduring
Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn posed new chal-
lenges to Department of Defense (DoD) Military Treatment
Facilities (MTFs) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) sites.
1
During active periods of con
flict, the number
and complexity of injuries resulting in limb loss and limb
salvage grew substantially relative to past con
flicts.
2
This is
attributed to advancements in the effectiveness of body armor,
rapid evacuation, and early medical attention programs.
3
To address the new clinical challenges associated with
combat-related limb injuries and loss, DoD and VA of
ficials
established specialized clinical programs for extremity trauma
care and research, technology development initiatives in
orthotics and prosthetics, and the development of consortia
to conduct and support clinically focused research programs
related to orthopaedics and rehabilitation.
The Bridging Advanced Developments for Exceptional
Rehabilitation (BADER) Consortium, started in September
2011, is part of that collaborative effort. Its overall goal is to
strengthen evidence-based orthopaedic rehabilitation care to
achieve optimal functional outcomes for wounded warriors
and civilians with traumatic limb loss and limb differences.
The purpose of this article is three-fold. First, we highlight
the BADER Consortium
’s model system and methods for
supporting the establishment of impactful and sustainable
research capabilities. This includes research capacity-building
components, research support infrastructures, and initiative-
launching studies. Second, we demonstrate results indicating
*University of Delaware, 540 S. College Ave, Newark, DE 19713.
†Center for the Intrepid, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Brooke
Army Medical Center, 3551 Roger Brooke Drive, Joint Base San Antonio,
Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234.
‡Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence, 2748 Worth
Road, Suite 29 Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234.
§Research and Development Section, Department of Rehabilitation,
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 8901 Rockville Pike, Bethesda,
MD 20889.
∥Naval Medical Center San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego,
CA 92134.
¶Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, 620 John Paul Jones Circle, Portsmouth,
VA 23708.
**Center for Disabilities Studies, University of Delaware, 540 Wyoming
Road, Newark, DE 19716.
††Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester,
MN 55905.
This article was presented at the Extremity War Injuries Meeting,
Washington, DC, January 26
–28, 2015, and the Defense Health Board
Brie
fing, Washington, DC, May 21, 2014.
The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not re
flect
the of
ficial policy or position of Brooke Army Medical Center, U.S. Army
Medical Department, U.S. Army Of
fice of the Surgeon General, Department
of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.
doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-15-00501
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the effectiveness of BADER Consortium activities. Finally,
we present a discussion containing insights gained to date.
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Research Efforts
A review of related research programs is needed to provide
context for best understanding the BADER Consortium
’s
central role in developing these critical research infrastruc-
tures. In 2001, following an assessment of the Army Medical
Department
’s ability to care for large populations of combat
amputees, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, now Walter
Reed National Military Medical Center, was established as
the
first specialized amputee care center.
In 2007, three DoD Advanced Rehabilitation Centers
(ARCs) were established for military amputees with special-
ized clinical programs in orthopaedics and orthopaedic reha-
bilitation. These centers are the Military Advanced Training
Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; the
Center for the Intrepid and the San Antonio Military Medi-
cal Center at the Brook Army Medical Center; and the Com-
prehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care (C5) Program
at Naval Medical Center San Diego. In concert with DoD
efforts, the VA established an Amputee System of Care
across the United States with regional amputation centers
and polytrauma amputation network sites.
1,4
The ARCs implemented advanced motivational and thera-
peutic rehabilitation care models that utilized intensive rehabili-
tation, peer dynamics, and advanced rehabilitation technologies
with the goal of obtaining unprecedented outcomes and quality
of life (QoL) following rehabilitation. As a result, service
members with salvaged and amputated limbs began returning
to active duty, including redeployment to combat zones.
5
Efforts of the ARCs to obtain high functional and QoL
outcomes have led to a series of orthopaedic technology devel-
opment initiatives. The Telemedicine and Advanced Technol-
ogy Research Center, a component of the U.S. Army Medical
Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), expanded
their Advanced Prosthetics and Neural Engineering Program
to include a Lower Extremity Gait Systems
–integrated
research team. In addition, the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) established the Revolutionizing
Prosthetics Program in 2006. The Revolutionizing Prosthetics
Program developed
“two anthropomorphic advanced modular
prototype prosthetic arm systems, including sockets, which
offer increased range of motion, dexterity and control options.
”
6
Stemming from a joint agreement involving multiple gov-
ernment agencies, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenera-
tive Medicine (AFIRM) was launched in 2007 to accelerate
research and the delivery of regenerative medicine therapies
to treat the most severely injured service members. The pri-
mary focus of AFIRM research has been seeking fundamen-
tal breakthroughs in basic scienti
fic domains at the cellular
and tissue levels.
7
As a natural extension of the AFIRM Consortium, the
Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium (METRC) was
established in September 2009. METRC consists of a national
network of clinical centers and one data-coordinating center
that work together with the DoD to conduct multicenter clin-
ical research studies relevant to the treatment and outcomes
of orthopaedic trauma sustained in the military. The overall
goal of the METRC is to
“produce the evidence needed to
establish treatment guidelines for the optimal care of the
wounded warrior and ultimately improve the clinical, func-
tional, and QoL outcomes of both service members and civil-
ians who sustain high-energy trauma to their extremities.
”
8
Also in 2009, the Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center
of Excellence (EACE) was legislated by Congress as a collab-
orative organization to enhance research partnerships between
the DoD, VA, academia, and industry. One unique aspect of
the EACE is a congressional mandate to
“conduct research to
develop scienti
fic information aimed at saving injured extrem-
ities, avoiding amputations, and preserving and restoring the
function of injured extremities.
”
4
The primary mission of the
EACE is to coordinate multidisciplinary teams to conduct sci-
enti
fic research at the ARCs and VA sites that improves
clinical outcomes and returns patients to the highest possible
level of physical, psychological, and emotional functions.
The scope of the EACE mission includes treatment, research,
education and training, and mitigation following traumatic
extremity injury and/or amputation.
4
With the burgeoning increase in clinical research and
advanced patient care activities, the need soon became appar-
ent for specialized
“infrastructures” that would enhance the
capacity to conduct and sustain world-class orthopaedic reha-
bilitation research. In 2010, the DoD Congressionally Directed
Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Peer Reviewed Ortho-
paedic Research Program established the Orthopaedic Reha-
bilitation Clinical Consortium Award (ORCCA). The goal of
the ORCCA was to
“establish a strong infrastructure for con-
tinuing clinical studies on combat-relevant musculoskeletal
injuries and products that result in changes to, or validation
of, current clinical practices that lead to better outcomes for
our injured warriors.
”
9
Following that, the Center for Rehabilitation Sciences
Research (CRSR) was established in 2011 to advance the
rehabilitative care for service members with combat-related
injuries through synergistic research projects that promote
successful return to duty and community reintegration. Housed
in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,
CRSR is an academic arm of rehabilitation activities within
the DoD and well positioned to expedite the translation of
advancements into patient care settings via the education and
training of future health care providers within the military
healthcare system.
10
The BADER Consortium
In September 2011, the BADER Consortium, based at the
University of Delaware (UD), received the ORCCA award.
11
A partnership was formed with four MTFs (the three ARCs
and the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth), the EACE, VA
Centers, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), academia,
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and industry to rapidly conduct innovative, high-impact, clini-
cally relevant orthopaedic rehabilitation research. Using an
NIH capacity-building model approach that provides essen-
tial infrastructures and project funding to conduct impactful
research, the BADER Consortium has further strengthened
MTF/VA efforts to establish and support a growing ortho-
paedic rehabilitation research culture.
The mission of the BADER Consortium is to help establish
sustainable world-class programs in orthopaedic rehabilitation
research at MTFs and VA sites that result in evidence-based
orthopaedic rehabilitation care. Our vision is for wounded
warriors and civilians with limb loss and limb difference to
routinely bene
fit from significant orthopaedic rehabilitation
advancements, and as a result obtain optimal functional clini-
cal outcomes and fully re-engage in life and work activities.
These goals are being realized through three primary
objectives:
(1) Establish infrastructures to support the advancement
of orthopaedic rehabilitation research capabilities at
ARCs and VA sites that promote optimal functional
outcomes and QoL;
(2) Conduct a variety of innovative, high-impact, and
clinically relevant BADER-funded initiative-launching
studies that lead to sustainable externally funded
research programs; and
(3) Preserve advancements in orthopaedic rehabilitation
research by establishing an externally funded, self-
sustaining clinical research enterprise.
METHODS
The BADER Consortium framework (Fig. 1) is modeled
on the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of
Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program
—a com-
ponent of the research capacity-building IDeA program of
the NIH.
12
Established in 1993 by congressional mandate, the
IDeA program aims to increase research competitiveness and
sustainment of select states. This is accomplished through
support for two major programs: Centers of Biomedical
Research Excellence and INBREs. The INBRE program cre-
ates infrastructure to administratively support a broad research
network
—typically multiple disparate research, academic, and
patient care centers geographically dispersed across a state or
region. The activities conducted by an INBRE Program
—
while broad in nature and containing policies and procedures to
ensure full compliance with human subject protection, scienti
fic
integrity, and administrative federal regulations
—generally
reside in three categories: research capacity-building, research- Dostları ilə paylaş: |