IMPACT members Rafael Samper-Ternent, MD, PhD and Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH are primary authors in the recently published Original Report: Pragmatic Trials Among Older Adults by the publication Ethnicity & Disease. The articles provide best practices for health equity in embedded pragmatic clinical trials(ePCTs) for dementia care.

Considerations When Designing and Implementing Pragmatic Clinical Trials That Include Older Hispanics by Dr. Samper-Ternent, IMPACT Pilot Study awardee, Aanand D. Naik, MD and others describes health equity practices for older Hispanic adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRDs). The authors provide data from two PCTs about the recruitment of older Hispanics with ADRDs and discuss unique challenges associated with conducting PCTs and propose strategies to overcome challenges.

Best Practice Recommendations for Integrating Health Equity into Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Dementia Care by IMPACT’s Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH, Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH, Ladson Hinton, MD, Ana Quiñones, PhD, Katherine Peak, MPH, and IMPACT faculty scholar Manka Nkimbeng, PhD, MPH, RN, describes the development, structure, and content of a guidance document developed by the IMPACT Collaboratory to help investigators integrate health equity into all aspects of ePCTs designed for people living with dementia.