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).
2019 Annual Report: Implementation Science
The DCRI’s Neha Pagidipati, MD, MPH, is the faculty lead for the COORDINATE-Diabetes trial, along with the DCRI’s Christopher Granger, MD. Diabetes is increasing in epidemic proportion, and the most devastating consequence is cardiovascular disease. It is possible to prevent death, heart attack, and stroke in patients with diabetes, but only a small percentage of patients in the U.S. are getting the necessary treatments.
2019 Annual Report: Partnering to Build a Research Network
The DCRI is partnering with Cerner, the world’s largest electronic health record (EHR) company, to conduct clinical research using Cerner’s cloud-based platform.