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Grand Rounds January 19, 2024: Why Are Imaging RCTs Different? Lessons From Chest Pain Evaluation Trials (Pamela S. Douglas, MD, MACC, FASE, FAHA)

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Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds January 19, 2024: Why Are Imaging RCTs Different? The tests are so common in aggregate it is a big expense. – What is the sensitivity of portable AI ECHO devices? They are pretty good. We think about it as a screening tool to see if a patient needs an intervention.

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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

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Further efforts are urgently needed to increase diversity in the cardiology workforce, which will improve clinical trial diversity and cardiovascular health for all. Increasing diversity in trial leadership is one of the most important strategies to increase diversity among RCT participants.

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Grand Rounds July 14, 2023: Lessons From the COORDINATE-Diabetes Trial (Christopher B. Granger, MD; Neha J. Pagidipati, MD, MPH)

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This was a cluster-randomized trial of 42 cardiology clinics across the U.S., The cardiology clinics were randomized to one of two groups. It is essential to scale this intervention across cardiology practices in order to improve the quality of care being delivered more broadly to ensure the implementation of these trial results.

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Grand Rounds September 16, 2022: Using Nationwide Registries to Conduct Pragmatic Randomized Trials: The DANFLU Program (Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, PhD, MPH)

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Professor in Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials. Head of Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials. Department of Cardiology. You can always use the system to identify potential candidates and then guide them to the local cardiology, kidney department. Learn more.

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Grand Rounds February 9, 2024: Pragmatic Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups – Experience From the Diuretic Comparison Project (Cynthia Hau, MPH)

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There was a lot of work that went into startup, making sure incentives were aligned across the VA system, meetings with primary care, cardiology, the VA ethics office, and ultimately with the central IRB. The actual startup was about 18 months.

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Grand Rounds April 7, 2023: A Nudge Towards Cardiovascular Health: Incorporating Insights From Behavioral Science to Improve Cardiovascular Care Delivery (Srinath Adusumalli, MD, MSHP, MBMI, FACC)

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Discussion Themes – In the last few years, there has been great reception to the value of behavioral science and implementation science in the field of cardiology. There is opportunity for more evidence to be developed and to implement lessons that have been learned.

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Grand Rounds November 4, 2022: The CardioNerds Clinical Trials Network: Pairing Equitable Enrollment with Trainee Development (Amit Goyal, MD, MAS)

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What did this activity displace in a busy cardiology fellow’s day? We would like to do a qualitative study for everyone involved and understand the career impact for the fellows. Learn more. Visit the CardioNerds website. Discussion Themes. There are a lot of ways to use the available time. pctGR, @Collaboratory1.