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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

UPMC did not allow patients to receive experimental COVID-19 therapies outside of the context of a clinical trial and used the REMAP-CAP platform, a global pragmatic adaptive trial platform, in all clinic sites. Every patient with COVID-19 was automatically considered. Patients were screened by local teams at each site.

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Grand Rounds September 29, 2023: Navigating the Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Research and Practice: The PROTEUS Consortium (Claire Snyder, PhD; Norah Crossnohere, PhD; Anne Schuster, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The PROTEUS Consortium’s objective is to ensure that patients, clinicians, and other decision-makers have high-quality PRO data from clinical trials and clinical practice to make the best decisions they can about treatment options. The Advisory Group identified 47 different potential solutions to address the top barriers.

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Grand Rounds September 8, 2023: The DEVICE Trial: An Embedded, Pragmatic Trial of Emergency Airway Management (Matthew Prekker, MD, MPH; Jonathan Casey, MD, MSc)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

DEVICE, part of the Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group, was a multicenter, parallel-group, unblinded pragmatic, randomized trial compared the use of a video laryngoscope with the use of a direct laryngoscope for tracheal intubation of critically ill adults at 17 EDs and ICUs across U.S. for the video laryngoscope group and 70.8%

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Grand Rounds March 1, 2024: Effect of an Intensive Food-As-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial (Joseph Doyle, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The dietician met with the patient to share education about nutrition, portion size, recipes to make food taste good, and information via an optional diabetes self-management program. The intervention group started the program now. The control group started in 6 months and received a brochure that lists addresses of area food banks.

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Healthcare doesn’t give a damn about patients

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A new analysis released Wednesday by Patients for Affordable Drugs estimates that pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. Patients for Affordable Drugs found that between June 24 and July 5, pharmaceutical companies increased prices for 133 products. have raised drug prices 1,186 times so far this year. But they’re not alone.

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

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The objective of COORDINATE-Diabetes trial was to improve the implementation and adoption of these therapies by testing the impact of a clinic-level, multifaceted intervention on the prescription of 3 key groups of evidence-based therapies. The cardiology clinics were randomized to one of two groups. In the usual care arm sites, 14.5%

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Grand Rounds December 2, 2022: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Health Intervention in Heart Failure and Diabetes: Lessons Learned (G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

This study asks how can we better facilitate health behaviors in patients with chronic diseases and can we leverage technology? that focused on patients with heart failure and diabetes, two rapidly growing conditions that are highly morbid. Both groups received a step counter and weekly text reminder to wear it.

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