2019 Annual Report: Improving Quality for Better Outcomes
A DCRI-led pragmatic clinical trial is focusing on improving quality initiatives so that patients with heart failure receive better care and spend less time in the hospital.
2019 Annual Report: Pragmatic Clinical Trials & Real-World Evidence
The DCRI’s Robert Mentz, MD, is the co-principal investigator for a pragmatic clinical trial on heart failure called TRANSFORM-HF, which is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Mentz discussed features of the trial with Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD, a medical officer in the Heart Failure and Arrhythmias Branch of the NHLBI and project officer for TRANSFORM-HF.
2019 Annual Report: Stakeholder Engagement
The ADAPTABLE study has a diverse team of Adaptors, led and coordinated by the Heart Research Alliance at the University of California, San Francisco, that serve as patient partners and provide insight on all aspects of the study. Schuyler Jones, MD, co-principal investigator of ADAPTABLE, spoke with two Adaptors, Nadine Zemon and Greg Merritt, to discuss their experience and the importance of stakeholder engagement.
2019 Annual Report: The Science of Appreciation
The DCRI is working to develop the science behind the best way to say thank you.
2019 Annual Report: Sharing Knowledge, Changing Practice
The DCRI’s mission is to translate knowledge gained from research into clinical practice in order to improve patient outcomes.
Innovating Adjudication
As the DCRI’s Clinical Events Classification (CEC) group grows, its leaders are seeking innova
2019 Annual Report: Valuing Patients as Equal Stakeholders
Through the DCRI Research Together™ program, the DCRI strives to view study participants as partners in research rather than research subjects.
2019 Annual Report: Motivating Behavior Change
Offering well-designed incentives to study participants can improve study recruitment and retention, as well as the health of individuals and communities, say the co-directors of the DCRI’s new Beh
2019 Annual Report: Ensuring Data Quality
Data are easily accessible, but not all data are well-suited to answer a given clinical research question. A team that includes DCRI faculty is working to build frameworks to assess whether data can be used in research studies.
2019 Annual Report: Fostering Collaboration to Improve Pragmatic Trials
The DCRI’s Myles Wolf, MD, MMSc, is exploring how to best manage blood phosphate levels in patients receiving dialysis through the HiLo trial—one of six large-scale pragmatic clinical trials from across the U.S. that were added to the portfolio of innovative Demonstration Projects this year by the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory program (NIH Collaboratory).