Network Spotlight: PaTH

Get To Know The PCORnet® Network Partners

PaTH, a PCORnet® Clinical Research Network, has a mission to utilize patient-empowered research to answer critical questions and enable more informed health decisions, including: linking EHR data across health care systems while ensuring patient privacy; engaging patients and clinicians to identify critical research questions and participate in research; and developing convenient survey methods to let patients share their perspectives on health topics with their health care teams.

PaTH participates in numerous PCORnet® Studies and is the lead for the following:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Real-Time Pain Management Intervention for Sickle Cell via Mobile Applications (CaRISMA)
• Estimating the Burden of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Using a Multistate Electronic Health Record Data Network
• A Patient-Centered PaTH to Addressing Diabetes
• Provider-Targeted Behavioral Interventions to Prevent Unsafe Opioid Prescribing for Acute Non-Cancer Pain in Primary Care
• Bariatric Surgery Impact on Cancer Screening (BASICS)
• Comparative Effectiveness of Available Treatments for Sinus and Ear Infections in Children: Which Children Benefit from Which Treatment? (MEASURE Trial)
• Modality choice before and after failure for the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy