The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Grants Cycle 4B, and the Demonstration Projects Program Cycle 3. Awardees of these funding opportunities will be supported by the IMPACT cores and teams to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within healthcare systems to improve care for people ...

IMPACT multiple principal investigator and longtime professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown University, Vincent Mor, PhD served as a panelist during the National Institutes of Health (NIH)  Collaboratory Workshop. “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster.” The panel, held on June 29, was titled “How Have Health Systems Made Decisions Based on ...

Evaluating the pragmatic characteristics of advance care planning outcome measures in dementia clinical trials: A scoping review July 13, 2023 To ensure that research results will impact real-world practices, ACP outcome measures must be meaningful to key partners, pragmatic, and psychometrically strong. IMPACT members Jennifer Gabbard, MD, Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, authored ...

IMPACT Health Equity Team (HET) leader Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS and colleague Dr. Anne Trontell reflected on health equity in the embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) landscape during the 2023 NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee Meeting. The focus of the meeting was health equity in ePCTs and Quiñones spoke about the efforts of the ...

The IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce the 2023 IMPACT Faculty Scholars. This program aims to enhance the career development of investigators in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for people living with dementia and their care partners by integrating them into the activities of our Cores and Teams. Faculty Scholars attend monthly ...

Marie M. Desir, Senior Patient Care Associate (PCA) at Hebrew SeniorLife provided this year’s mission moment for the IMPACT Collaboratory Annual Steering Committee & Business Planning Meeting, held on April 11, 2023. Ms. Desir shared her unique experience as a frontline member of the healthcare team working with people living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ms. ...

Emergency Department-to-Community Transitions of Care: Best Practices for the Older Adult Population June 14, 2023 IMPACT Career Development Awardee, Cameron Gettel, MD, co-authored an article describing emergency department (ED)-to-community care transitions for older adults. The article emphasizes that older adults visiting the ED often have chronic illnesses and impairments, making effective care transitions critical to good health ...

The research of IMPACT Multiple Principal Investigator  Vince Mor, PhD and member Ellen McCreedy, PhD, MPH is featured in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) blog post on the effects of music and Alzheimer’s disease. The Blog titled, “Could ‘musical medicine’ influence healthy aging?” highlights the Music and MEmory: A Pragmatic TRIal for Nursing Home ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will host a virtual workshop, “Getting the Right Evidence to Decision-Makers Faster: Insights from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory”. The virtual event will be held June 20-21 to explore the critical cycle of evidence generation to decision-making by health system leaders looking to implement the findings ...

The Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative announces a request for applications for the newly established 2023 Real World Data Scholars Program. This program supports the development of advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty who are interested in developing their expertise and experience in working with electronic health record (EHR) data. This program offers a ...