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.
2019 Annual Report: Reflection from the Head of Research Operations
As a member of the DCRI team for more than 12 years, including as head of research operations now, I am especially proud to represent our operational teams in this year’s annual report.
2019 Annual Report: Stakeholders Share Ideas
The DCRI convenes DCRI Think Tanks on a regular basis to inspire collaboration around solving the most critical gaps in clinical research. At its most recent event, participants discussed implementation science.
2019 Annual Report: Welcome from the Interim Executive Director
I am delighted to share this year’s DCRI annual report, an especially meaningful edition for me as I complete more than a year as interim executive director.
DCRI Researchers Weigh In On Wearables in Heart Failure Care
DCRI researchers discussed challenges and opportunities associated with using wearables in caring for patients with heart failure.