February 3, 2025
Resource Type
Improving Advance Care Planning for Seriously Ill Primary Care Patients: UC Health Care Planning Study
January 2025 - In Grand Rounds 52, Rebecca Sudore, MD, and Anne Walling, MD, PhD, present on "Improving Advance Care Planning (ACP) for Seriously Ill Primary Care Patients: UC Health Care Planning Study". They discuss the evolving ACP definition and research, along with lessons learned from their ACP PCORI pragmatic randomized control trial.
Speakers
Rebecca Sudore, MD
Professor of Medicine,
University of California,
San Francisco
Anne Walling, MD, PhD
Professor-in-Residence,
University of California,
Los Angeles
Learning Objectives
- The Evolving ACP Definition & Research
- Lessons for an ACP PCORI Pragmatic RCT
- Identifying the cohort with validated algorithms
- Constructing the ACP EMR Intervention Infrastructure
- Healthcare navigator arm
- Trial outcomes: NLP
- Implementation Lessons
COVID Vaccination among Medicare Beneficiaries: Findings from an IMPACT Supplement
December 2024 - In Grand Rounds 51, Drs. Kaley Hayes, PharmD, PhD & Daniel Harris, PhD, MPH discuss the COVid VAXines Effects on the Aged (COVVAXAGE) database, which was the first project with NIA LINKAGE program (external data linkage to CMS data in NIA-funded projects); they walk through associated papers and lessons learned working with industry partners CVS Health and Walgreens.
Speakers
Daniel Harris, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
Kaley Hayes, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Brown University
Learning Objectives
- Be familiar with the NIA Linkage program and COVVAXAGE linked database of Medicare claims.
- Understand the benefits of data linkages to Medicare data for studying COVID-19 vaccines and clinical outcomes.
- Discuss findings from real-world COVID-19 vaccine studies examining use, safety, and effectiveness among older adults in the US.
