June 21, 2023: Results of ICD-Pieces to Be Presented in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshots of Dr. Miguel Vazquez and Dr. George "Holt" OliverIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Miguel Vazquez of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and George “Holt” Oliver of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation will present “Improving Delivery of Care for Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes, and Hypertension,” including results from the ICD-Pieces NIH Collaboratory Trial.

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, June 23, 2023, at 1:00 pm eastern.

ICD-Pieces, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, used a novel information technology platform to identify patients with concurrent chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and hypertension and deliver evidence-based interventions to improve patient outcomes. The study is supported within the NIH Collaboratory under an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Dr. Vazquez is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Dr. Oliver is vice president of clinical informatics at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation.

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March 29, 2022: PCT Grand Rounds to Highlight Experiences From ICD-Pieces

Headshots of Dr. Miguel Vazquez and Dr. George (Holt) OliverIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, researchers from ICD-Pieces, an NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Trial, will present aggregate outcomes from the study and share experiences from trial implementation.

Dr. Miguel Vazquez of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Dr. George (Holt) Oliver of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation will present “ICD-Pieces: Improving Care for CKD, Diabetes and Hypertension in Health Systems.” The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, April 1, at 1:00 pm eastern.

ICD-Pieces is a pragmatic trial of a collaborative primary care–nephrology care model for patients with chronic kidney disease in a predominantly minority population. The study is implementing a novel technology platform (Pieces) that enables the use of electronic health record data to improve chronic kidney disease care within primary care practices or medical homes in the community.

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ICD-Pieces is supported within the NIH Collaboratory by the NIH Common Fund and by a cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.