GPC Engagement Meeting Norms

The Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) Clinical Research Network (CRN) developed and used these engagement meeting norms as a way to orient and continually guide stakeholder interactions in their community. Use this document to guide the development of meeting norms for your own community.

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How can you contribute to scientific manuscripts?

At the request of our patient partners, the PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN)/PCORnet Bariatric Study teams developed this FAQ resource to help partnering stakeholders understand how they can contribute to scientific manuscripts. It can be adapted for other studies.

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PaTH: How EHR Data is Collected and Protected via a Chocolate-Making Analogy

The PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN) developed this guide to explain how electronic health record (EHR) data is captured, protected, and utilized for research purposes via a chocolate-making analogy.

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PaTH to Health: Diabetes, Chocolate Making & Data Extraction Video

This video on electronic health data utilizes the metaphor of making chocolate to clearly lay out how electronic health records can be used to anonymize data. It is a useful tool for clearly explaining EHRs and the privacy inherent in building a research network.

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Measuring an Epidemic

Speakers John Muench, MD, MPH and Thuy Le, MPH, both of OCHIN discuss the liberalizing of chronic opioid prescribing in the 90s was soon followed by unforeseen harm to individuals and communities.

Muench and Le review the history of the rise in opioid addiction and overdose deaths, prior efforts to track pain medication prescriptions, and current efforts to organize the ADVANCE Clinical Research Network electronic health record data to more easily describe prescribing pattern changes that follow interventions at national, state, and clinic levels.

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Engagement Terms Glossary

This document was developed by the PCORnet Engagement Committee and contains terms commonly used in engagement activities and guidance for how to discuss engagement in the clinical research space.

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Evaluation Plan of a Research Study

This Evaluation Plan from the “PCORnet Obesity Observational Research Initiative,” was used to evaluate the different components of the research study. Use it as an example of how to evaluate your own research studies.

Prepared by: John Holmes, PhD, Brie Purcell, MPH, and Beth Syat, MPH

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Creative Commons: Extending the Value of PCORnet Efforts

This presentation goes over the differences between intellectual property and data, Open Access, attributions, and Creative Commons licenses.

Speaker: John Wilbanks

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