The Research Readiness Snapshot is a brief self-assessment and planning tool that helps PCORnet partner sites document their current capacity to participate in PCORnet research and identify strengths, gaps, and priorities for growth. It guides sites to review their latest PCORnet performance metrics (e.g., study participation, data readiness, and query responsiveness) and summarize key institutional infrastructure, policies, and best practices that support efficient, patient-centered research. Other research sites can use this resource to assess their own research readiness.
Evaluation
How Common are New Symptoms and Conditions After COVID-19? Results from PCORnet
Summary of the CDC’s research on symptoms experienced more than 4 weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers studied data from electronic health records of 1.8 million adults and 300,000 children from 42 PCORnet network partners.
Partnerships & Infrastructure to Support Patient & Stakeholder Engagement: A Scan of PCORnet Practices
This report examines established and emerging engagement activities currently being used by PCORnet networks. Sourced from a literature and document scan and network interviews with key staff and partners, this report captures and categorizes existing engagement activities using an organizing framework to facilitate a deeper understanding of promising engagement activities and lays the foundation for future efforts to assess the quality and effectiveness of specific engagement practices.
Pilot Linkage Project Process and Results
PCORnet CMS Linkage Pilot Team has released a white paper to help others learn more about how to use Medicare claims data to support studies. The pilot team developed a process for using Medicare claims data to supplement PCORnet data in pragmatic clinical trials such as the ADAPTABLE study, which compares the effectiveness of different daily aspirin dosing for heart attack and stroke prevention. The project team describes the processes and data flows used successfully in the pilot, as well as lessons learned and recommendations.
Survey to Assess Engagement
The PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN) distributed this engagement survey among their clinicians, patient partner, and staff to assess when and how each individual was engaged in PaTH research. This survey can be used by others as a model for conducting an engagement assessment survey tool.
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