Grand Rounds

April 17, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, 10 Years of the YODA Project

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Dr. Joseph Ross

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Joseph Ross of Yale University will present “The Yale Open Data Access (YODA) Project: 10 Years of Clinical Trial Data Sharing.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, April 19, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

The YODA Project promotes open science, research transparency, and the sharing of clinical research data to support healthcare research. Through the project, researchers can request access to deidentified participant-level clinical trial data and research reports.

Ross is a professor of medicine and public health at Yale University and codirector of the YODA Project.

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April 10, 2024: Primary Results of PRIM-ER Trial to Be Featured in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Dr. Corita Grudzen, principal investigator of PRIM-ER

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Corita Grudzen of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will present “Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine, a Cluster Randomized Stepped-Wedge Trial Across 33 Emergency Departments,” including the results of the PRIM-ER trial.

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, April 12, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Grudzen is a professor of emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Fern Grayer Chair in Oncology Care and the Patient Experience and division head of supportive and acute care services at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

PRIM-ER, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, is a stepped-wedge, cluster randomized trial testing a multidisciplinary primary palliative care intervention in a diverse mix of emergency departments in the United States. The study is supported within the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory by a cooperative agreement from the National Institute on Aging. Read more about PRIM-ER.

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April 3, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, a New Look at P Values for Randomized Trials

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Dr. Erik van Zwet

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Erik van Zwet of Leiden University Medical Center will present “A New Look at P Values for Randomized Clinical Trials.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, April 5, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Dr. van Zwet is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

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March 27, 2024: A Cluster Randomized Trial to Improve Kidney Transplant Access, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Drs. Amit Garg and Stephanie Dixon

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Amit Garg and Stephanie Dixon of Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry will present “Effect of a Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Patient Access to Kidney Transplant and Living Kidney Donation: A Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 27, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Garg is the associate dean for clinical research at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the lead of the provincial Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation Program of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES KDT). Dixon is a biostatistician at the London Health Sciences Centre and the program manager for ICES KDT.

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March 20, 2024: Early Diagnosis and Assessment of Autism to Be Featured in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Dr. Warren Jones

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Warren Jones of Emory University will present “Early Diagnosis and Assessment of Autism via Objective Measurements of Social Visual Engagement.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 22, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Jones is the director of research at the Marcus Autism Center and the Norman Nien Distinguished Chair in Autism and an associate professor of pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine.

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March 13, 2024: In This Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, a Pragmatic Trial of Antibiotic Choice on Renal Outcomes

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Dr. Edward Qian

In this Friday's PCT Grand Rounds, Edward Qian of Vanderbilt University will present "The Effect of Antibiotic Choice on Renal Outcomes: The ACORN Trial."

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 15, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

The ACORN trial compared the effects of cefepime vs piperacillin-tazobactam on the incidence of acute kidney injury among acutely ill adults. In this innovative study, randomization of eligible patients occurred at the prescriber level within the electronic medical record.

Qian, the principal investigator for ACORN, is an assistant professor of medicine and the assistant director for quality and education of the medical ICU at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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March 6, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Public-Private Partnerships in Health AI

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In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Michael Pencina of Duke University will present “Public-Private Partnerships in the Trustworthy Health AI Ecosystem.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 8, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Pencina is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics and the vice dean for data science in the Duke University School of Medicine. He is the director of the university’s Duke AI Health initiative and the chief data scientist for Duke Health.

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February 28, 2024: A Randomized Trial of a Food-as-Medicine Program, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Joseph Doyle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present “Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Healthcare Use: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 1, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His healthcare research includes partnering with large healthcare systems to conduct randomized trials of changes in the ways healthcare is delivered.

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February 21, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Virtual Monitoring in Decentralized Clinical Trials

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In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Adrian Hernandez and Christopher Lindsell of Duke University will present “Virtual Vigilance: Monitoring of Decentralized Clinical Trials.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, February 23, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Hernandez is the executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and professor of medicine and vice dean in the Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as co-principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center. Lindsell is the director of data science and biostatistics at the DCRI and professor and cochief of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Duke University School of Medicine.

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February 19, 2024: Virtual Monitoring in Decentralized Trials, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Adrian Hernandez and Christopher Lindsell of Duke University will present “Virtual Vigilance: Monitoring of Decentralized Clinical Trials.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, February 23, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Hernandez is the executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and professor of medicine and vice dean in the Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as co-principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center. Lindsell is the director of data science and biostatistics at the DCRI and professor and cochief of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Duke University School of Medicine.

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