Members of the IMPACT Collaboratory Implementation Core Laura Gitlin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN, and Joe Gaugler, PhD, were co-authors on an article which describes the use of multiple optimized randomization procedures to minimize and control imbalances in characteristics of sites enrolled in the Adult Day Service (ADS) Plus cluster-randomized trial (CRT).

A hurdle model is a modified count model that also assumes a relatively high frequency of zeros, but is set up as a two-stage data generation process rather than as a mixture distribution. In his most recent blog post, Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA of the IMPACT Design and Statistics Core discusses using a hurdle ...

The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care published a report July 30, 2020 that highlights recommendations for policy makers and individuals to help reduce dementia risk worldwide. Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, core leader of the IMPACT Health Care Systems Core and Laura Gitlin, PhD, FGSA, FAAN, core leader of the Implementation Core are ...

IMPACT Collaboratory Executive Director at Hebrew SeniorLife Ellen McCarthy, PhD, MPH co-authored an article published in the July 23rd issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society studying trends in preventable hospitalizations of older adults with dementia. Led by  Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS,  from the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, ...

Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA from the IMPACT Pilot Studies Core recently co-authored an editorial published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In it, they stated the benefits of collaboration between health systems and nursing facilities. The editorial, “Time to Leverage Health System Collaborations: Supporting Nursing Facilities Through the COVID-19 Pandemic,” was written in response ...

Members of the IMPACT Collaboratory co-authored an opinion piece in the Washington Post calling for long-term care facilities to reconsider visitor bans. Jason Karlawish, MD, Core Leader of the IMPACT Ethics and Regulation Core and Allison K. Hoffman, JD, a member of the core’s executive committee, joined David C. Grabowski, PhD to author the editorial. They ...

IMPACT’s Multiple Principal Investigators Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH and Vincent Mor, PhD, together with Angelo Volandes, MD, recently published results of The Pragmatic Trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes (PROVEN) trial, a demonstration project under the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory. PROVEN was among the first large-scale embedded pragmatic clinical trials conducted in nursing homes. ...

IMPACT Collaboratory co-principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD and colleagues authored an opinion piece on June 25 in the Washington Post describing how research studies have shown that the key issue in managing infection rates of the virus within nursing homes is the rate of infection in the surrounding community. Mor  and his colleagues David C. Grabowski, ...

Check out the latest blog post from Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, executive committee member of the IMPACT Design and Statistics Core. Goldfeld considers the use of a permutation test for a small pilot study. Link: https://www.rdatagen.net/post/permutation-test-for-a-covid-19-pilot-nursing-home-study/

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