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- Can Existing Medications Help Treat People with COVID-19? PCORnet® Will Help Researchers Find Out. July 13, 2021A new COVID-19 study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) program will use PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, to quickly access enrolling sites, streamline study start-up timelines, and engage the community perspective. The ACTIV-6 study will work collaboratively with participants to develop a platform that ...
- Inaugural PCORnet-Powered Study Delivers Insights and Inspiration for Novel Trial Design May 15, 2021In a milestone moment for PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, the ADAPTABLE study team today shared results in a late-breaking clinical trials session during the 70th annual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session. The results, which were simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine, establish PCORnet as a powerful resource for successfully conducting novel pragmatic clinical ...
- ADAPTABLE, a PCORnet® Demonstration Project, Offers a Template for Future Pragmatic Studies April 7, 2021Two manuscripts recently published in peer-reviewed journals offer researchers a glimpse into the opportunities and challenges for novel pragmatic trials like Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-Centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-term Effectiveness (ADAPTABLE), a demonstration project of PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. The publications highlight separate, but equally important, topics of interest in pragmatic research: maximizing clinician engagement and ...
- CDC Uses PCORnet® Resources to Shape National Understanding of COVID-19 February 23, 2021Network Partners of PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, are leveraging their rich data to help answer important questions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the early collaborators with this work is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), a program of the Task Force for Global Health. ...
- PCORnet is Delivering Important COVID-19 Answers February 11, 2021With access to coordinated heath data from more than 70 million people across the United States, PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, is a key resource in the fight against COVID-19. To maximize its utility, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) offered enhancement funding for nine existing PCORnet-enabled research studies. The idea behind these enhancement awards is to leverage ...
- PCORnet®-Enabled HERO Registry Tops 20K Participants as Pfizer Partners for Vaccine Safety Study January 28, 2021
The Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes (HERO) Registry, which unites healthcare workers to better understand and stop COVID-19, has enrolled over 22,000 participants. HERO is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), coordinated by the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), and enabled by PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. Its goal is to use the experiences of frontline health workers to ...
- Patient Reps Power PCORnet’s Steering Committee: A Q&A With Nadine Zemon December 14, 2020Nadine Zemon can be described as a natural explorer, someone who has sought out new insights and experiences throughout her life. She now brings that relentless curiosity to PCORnet in her role as the newest patient representative on the PCORnet Steering Committee. Never one to be boxed into a single interest area, Nadine spent her younger years exploring dual passions: ...
- Clinical Trials In The Era Of COVID-19: How PREVENTABLE’s Pragmatic Design Is Helping It Power Through The Pandemic November 18, 2020With shelter in place and travel bans disrupting traditional clinical research, many teams are adopting new strategies to keep patients safe and studies progressing throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But PREVENTABLE, a study using the PCORnet® infrastructure to investigate whether taking a drug commonly used to lower cholesterol can help adults aged 75 and older prevent dementia, disability, and heart disease, needed ...
- PCORnet® Experts Join NAM and PCORI to Improve Data Sharing November 16, 2020In the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to optimize health data sharing has become strikingly pronounced. As our understanding of the novel coronavirus evolves, we are reliant on patient- and consumer-reported data to track transmission, understand risk factors for disease, and accelerate the pace of developing a cure—but data sharing in the United States is far from perfect. Recently, several leaders ...
- How Are Data Tools Improving Pediatric Care? PCORnet® Is Part Of The Answer October 29, 2020Chris Forrest, PCORnet® Steering Committee member and principal investigator for PEDSnet, a PCORnet Network Partner, recently participated in a webinar hosted by U.S. News and World Report entitled “Improving Pediatric Care: How New Data Tools Are Moving the Needle.” The webinar was an exploration of the opportunities for children’s hospitals to use (and share) data to do a faster and more accurate job of ...
A new COVID-19 study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) program will use PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, to quickly access enrolling sites, streamline study start-up timelines, and engage the community perspective. The ACTIV-6 study will work collaboratively with participants to develop a platform that ...
In a milestone moment for PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, the ADAPTABLE study team today shared results in a late-breaking clinical trials session during the 70th annual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session. The results, which were simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine, establish PCORnet as a powerful resource for successfully conducting novel pragmatic clinical ...
Two manuscripts recently published in peer-reviewed journals offer researchers a glimpse into the opportunities and challenges for novel pragmatic trials like Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-Centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-term Effectiveness (ADAPTABLE), a demonstration project of PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. The publications highlight separate, but equally important, topics of interest in pragmatic research: maximizing clinician engagement and ...
Network Partners of PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, are leveraging their rich data to help answer important questions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the early collaborators with this work is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), a program of the Task Force for Global Health. ...
With access to coordinated heath data from more than 70 million people across the United States, PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, is a key resource in the fight against COVID-19. To maximize its utility, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) offered enhancement funding for nine existing PCORnet-enabled research studies. The idea behind these enhancement awards is to leverage ...
The Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes (HERO) Registry, which unites healthcare workers to better understand and stop COVID-19, has enrolled over 22,000 participants. HERO is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), coordinated by the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), and enabled by PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. Its goal is to use the experiences of frontline health workers to ...
Nadine Zemon can be described as a natural explorer, someone who has sought out new insights and experiences throughout her life. She now brings that relentless curiosity to PCORnet in her role as the newest patient representative on the PCORnet Steering Committee. Never one to be boxed into a single interest area, Nadine spent her younger years exploring dual passions: ...
With shelter in place and travel bans disrupting traditional clinical research, many teams are adopting new strategies to keep patients safe and studies progressing throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But PREVENTABLE, a study using the PCORnet® infrastructure to investigate whether taking a drug commonly used to lower cholesterol can help adults aged 75 and older prevent dementia, disability, and heart disease, needed ...
In the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to optimize health data sharing has become strikingly pronounced. As our understanding of the novel coronavirus evolves, we are reliant on patient- and consumer-reported data to track transmission, understand risk factors for disease, and accelerate the pace of developing a cure—but data sharing in the United States is far from perfect. Recently, several leaders ...
Chris Forrest, PCORnet® Steering Committee member and principal investigator for PEDSnet, a PCORnet Network Partner, recently participated in a webinar hosted by U.S. News and World Report entitled “Improving Pediatric Care: How New Data Tools Are Moving the Needle.” The webinar was an exploration of the opportunities for children’s hospitals to use (and share) data to do a faster and more accurate job of ...
