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  • Results from PCORnet® Bariatric Study Published in JAMA Surgery January 22, 2020
    There were no differences in all-cause mortality between patients who had sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), but operations, hospitalizations, and other longer-term problems were more often associated with RYGB than sleeve gastrectomy, according to a new JAMA Surgery paper reporting results from the PCORnet® Bariatric Study. The paper describes how researchers used resources from PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical ...
  • PCORnet Leader Rainu Kaushal Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Medicine December 13, 2019
    Dr. Rainu Kaushal wears many hats. She serves as the principal investigator for INSIGHT-NYC, a Partner Network of PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network; chair of the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medicine; physician-in-chief of healthcare policy and research at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a member of the PCORnet Steering Committee. Now, in ...
  • Patient Reps Power PCORnet’s Steering Committee: A Q&A with Henry Cruz December 10, 2019
    If you are looking for a reason to get excited about the promise of PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, look no further than Henry Cruz. He’ll give you 10, and you’ll leave your encounter with him energized and in awe of a guy who grew up the youngest of 12 kids in a low-income community in Brooklyn and ...
  • Newly Funded Statin Pragmatic Trial to be Fueled by PCORnet® Resources and Informed by the Network’s Past Success October 23, 2019
    PCORnet® will play a major role in the largest pragmatic trial with placebo-controlled drug assignment to date and first statin trial with a non-cardiovascular primary outcome. PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, will serve as a key resource for a new pragmatic trial studying effectiveness of statins in older adults without known cardiovascular disease. The National Institute of Aging and ...