Heather Allore, PhD, Core Leader for the IMPACT Design and Statistics Core, recently appeared on the JAMAevidence podcast to discuss latent class analysis to identify hidden clinical phenotypes. A latent variable is an unobserved variable that investigators don’t have a construct or measure for, but believe it exists and could impact outcomes. Dr. Allore uses ...

Effectiveness of a Second COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose Against Infection, Hospitalization, or Death Among Nursing Home Residents — 19 States, March 29–July 25, 2022 September 30, 2022 A new study from the IMPACT COVID-19 Supplement Awardees, supported in part by the National Institute on Aging (U54AG063546-02S2, P01AG027296-11S1) and the Veterans’ Administration Center on Innovation at the Providence ...

Emergency department care transition barriers: A qualitative study of care partners of older adults with cognitive impairment September 28, 2022 Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS (2021 IMPACT Career Development Award Program recipient, 2022-2023 IMPACT Faculty Scholars Program), Joan Monin, PhD, MS (IMPACT Design & Statistics Core), Ula Hwang, MD, MPH (IMPACT Health Care Systems Core) and colleagues conducted ...

Can clinician champions reduce potentially inappropriate medications in people living with dementia? Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial September 27, 2022 IMPACT Demonstration Projects Program Award recipient, Michael Parchman, MD, MPH, is co-author and co-investigator on a new 24-month embedded pragmatic cluster-randomized clinical aiming to: Assess the effectiveness of clinician champion intervention strategies on de-implementing potentially inappropriate ...

Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, Team Leader of the IMPACT Health Equity Team, will be among the presenters at the Gerontological Society of America’s preconference workshop on November 2nd. The workshop will focus on the pragmatic clinical trial as an exemplar of an innovative research design that can foster the performance of trials in real world settings, ...

We are excited to share information about the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative, and invite you to check out the website to learn more. Led by American Health Care Association (AHCA), the LTC Data Cooperative is an outgrowth of work led by Vince Mor, PhD in response to COVID-19.  This initiative brings together healthcare systems and ...

Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials for People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners Wednesday, January 25th, 2023  |  11:00am – 3:30pm ET Thursday, January 26th, 2023  |  11:00am – 5:00pm ET Apply here! This year’s modules will focus on: Using real-world data to identify PLWD and ascertain outcomes in ePCTs Designing the implementation evaluation for an ePCT Defining ...

Providers’ Perspectives on High-Quality Dementia Care in Long-Term Care September 2, 2022 IMPACT members Jasmine L Travers, PhD, MHS, RN, David R Gifford, MD, MPH, and Rosa R Baier, MPH were among the co-authors on this qualitative study of 5 listening sessions with dementia care providers on high-quality care for persons living with dementia in long-term care. Objectives: To ...

The NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory is holding a special Grand Rounds series to examine ethical and regulatory challenges in pragmatic clinical trials. Over the past decade, the program’s Ethics and Regulatory Core has worked with investigators to navigate ethical and regulatory complexities associated with research conducted within healthcare systems. With this new Grand Rounds series, ...

Reports from the first two series of meetings with the IMPACT Lived Experience Panel (LEP) are now available on the IMPACT website.  The two reports share highlights and insights gained during meetings with the LEP facilitated by IMPACT’s Patient Caregiver Relevant Outcomes Core and the Ethics and Regulation Core in the first cycle of the ...