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Grand Rounds October 6, 2023: Hybrid Studies Should Not Sacrifice Rigorous Methods (David M. Murray, PhD; Moderator: Jonathan Moyer, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

They also learned that consensus is lacking in many areas, such as blinding and adaptation, even among the implementation research community. Discussion Themes -You previously mentioned that the practice of blinding is extremely common in clinical trials and less so in implementation studies. Yes, that’s one solution.

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Grand Rounds February 3, 2023: Pragmatic Trials For Children With Congenital Heart Disease – Insights From The NITRIC Trial (Luregn Schlapbach, PhD, FCICM)

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The NITRIC Trial was a double blind, multicenter, randomized, parallel-group trial recruiting at 6 pediatric cardiac surgical centers in Australia, New Zealand, and The Netherlands. All other surgical staff were blinded. The intervention was applied by perfusionists at a steady concentration from the start until the end of bypass.

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Google’s 2021 Title Shakeup Part 2: Our SERP Title Analysis Study

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blue links) of the organic results appeared to be pulling from content outside of the HTML title tag at a much higher frequency. SERP Titles vs H1 Elements Comparisons: SERP Titles were compared to the page’s title tag and H1 element for each date range. Aim for title tags between 45 and 60 characters. Considerations.

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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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Can we use blinded HER-led recruitment efforts to identify participants? Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC) appeared first on Rethinking Clinical Trials.

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Grand Rounds May 19, 2023: Aspirin or Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin for Thromboprophylaxis After a Fracture (Robert O’Toole, MD)

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Patients and clinicians were non-blinded. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds May 19, 2023: Aspirin or Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin for Thromboprophylaxis After a Fracture (Robert O’Toole, MD) appeared first on Rethinking Clinical Trials. The primary outcome was all-cause mortality.

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Grand Rounds December 8, 2023: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial of the Jumpstart Intervention to Promote Communication about Goals of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Serious Illness (Ruth Engelberg, PhD; Erin Kross, MD; Robert Lee, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

EHR passages were adjudicated in pseudo-random order, blinded to patient ID. In order to classify a patient with goals of care conversation, the study used the NLP to screen the records and pull out excerpts of EHR that had high probability to contain a goals of care conversation and then conducted a human review.

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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)

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For the step-down RCT, patient recruitment started in August 2019 with 587 patients consenting and 552 included in the primary analysis. It was a labor of love; the site payment was low; we asked friends to be sites in the trial. Sites have a lot of trials that are competing. One pays more than another. pctGR, @Collaboratory1.

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