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The newsletter is intended to provide a convenient monthly wrap-up of NIH Collaboratory news, along with featured stories and a look at what’s coming in the month ahead. We hope you’ll find it useful, and we’d love to hear your feedback.
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Recent News
NIH Releases First Strategic Plan for Data Science: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its first Strategic Plan for Data Science. The plan outlines steps the agency will take to modernize research data infrastructure and resources and to maximize the value of data generated by NIH-supported research. The goals of the plan are to support an efficient, effective data infrastructure; modernize data resources; develop and disseminate tools for data management, analytics, and visualization; enhance workforce development for data science; and enact policies that promote stewardship and sustainability of data science resources. The NIH will hire a chief data strategist to support implementation of the strategic plan.
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Study Explores Misleading Use of “Pragmatic” Label for Some Randomized Clinical Trials: A study published in
BMC Medicine found that many randomized controlled trials touted as “pragmatic” were actually explanatory in nature, assessing investigational medicines to test efficacy before licensing. The authors recommend that researchers use a standard tool, such as the PRECIS-2 toolkit, to prospectively evaluate the pragmatic characteristics of their studies. Such tools can also assist funders, ethics committees, and journal editors in determining whether a trial has been accurately labeled as pragmatic. The article cites the NIH Collaboratory’s
Living Textbook of Pragmatic Clinical Trials in its discussion of pragmatic RCTs and the tools available to assess their relevance for real-world practice.
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Podcasts
Don't miss our latest Grand Rounds podcast:
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In this episode, Dr. Rachael Fleurence, executive director of the National Evaluation System for Health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc) and the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), discusses the mission, challenges, and long-term goals of NESTcc with moderator Dr. Adrian Hernandez. Dr. Fleurence describes how NESTcc is working to accelerate the development and translation of new and safe health technologies, and explains where she hopes the program will be in the next 3 years.
Other recent Grand Rounds podcasts:
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The
ABATE Infection trial is a cluster randomized controlled trial comparing quality improvement strategies to reduce multidrug-resistant organisms and health care–associated infections in non–intensive care settings. Healthcare–associated infections are one of the most frequent causes of death in the United States and incur more than $6.5 billion in healthcare costs annually. Prevention of these infections is a national priority for patient safety and best practice to reduce morbidity, mortality, and cost. Principal investigator Dr. Susan Huang recently presented on
barriers and lessons learned from the trial. Download a
study snapshot to learn more.
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Featured Publications & Products
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In an embedded pragmatic clinical trial, who are the targets of the embedded intervention, how will the clinical workflow change, how will the partner health system’s EHR be used, and what barriers to recruitment are anticipated? These are just a few of the
questions to consider when planning to conduct a trial. Learn more about these questions in the
Participant Recruitment chapter of the
Living Textbook.
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