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Promoting Informed Decision Making When Choosing between Antibiotics or Surgery for Appendicitis -- The TRIAD (Treatment Individualized Appendicitis Decision Making) Implementation Program

University of Washington
| Washington
David Flum, MD, MPH
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Using a Smartphone Program to Help Patients Manage Symptoms of Serious Mental Illness

University of Washington
| Washington
Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Statistical Methods for Optimizing Dynamic Patient-Level Treatment and Monitoring Strategies

Rutgers University School of Public Health
| New Jersey
Jason Roy, PhD, MS
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Randomized Trials and Their Observational Emulations -- Benchmarking and Join Analysis

President and Fellows of Harvard College
| Massachusetts
Issa Dahabreh, MD, ScD, MS
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Causal Mediation Analysis with Machine Learning to Understand Comparative Treatment Effects

New York University
| New York
Ivan Diaz, PhD, MPH, MS
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Improving Methods for Design and Analysis of CER with Complex Observational Healthcare Data

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
| Texas
Hong Zhu, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Robust Longitudinal Causal Inference Methods with Machine Learning

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
| New Jersey
Liangyuan Hu, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Supporting Pain Management for Sickle Cell Disease Crisis at Infusion Centers

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
| Maryland
Sophie Lanzkron, MD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Implementing Matching of Patients to Mental Healthcare Therapists’ Strengths

University of Massachusetts Amherst
| Massachusetts
Michael Constantino, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Using a Virtual Screening and Care Program to Increase Access to Treatment for Urinary Incontinence in Women

Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, a Division of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
| California
Brian Mittman, PhD, MA
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Open Competition PFA: Implementation of Findings from PCORI’s Research Investments)

Improving Instrumental Variables Methods for Non-Randomized Studies

The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania
| Pennsylvania
Luke Keele, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Putting an Online Weight Management Program in Place in Clinical and Community Settings

Brigham and Women's Hospital
| Massachusetts
Heather J. Baer, ScD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Developing a New Method to Combine Different Types of Trial Data in Meta-Analyses

The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
| California
Mi-Ok Kim, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Semantic Data Quality Standards for Multi-Center Clinical Research Studies and Networks

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
| Pennsylvania
Charles Bailey, MD, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research, Research Conducted Using PCORnet®

Developing Methods to Combine Data Sources for Health Research

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
| Maryland
Elizabeth Stuart, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

New Methods for Planning Cluster Randomized Trials to Detect Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Yale School of Public Health
| Connecticut
Fan Li, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Developing Methods to Combine and Analyze Data from PRPP-SMART Studies

University of Michigan
| Michigan
Kelley Kidwell, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Expanding the Use of Reports That Capture Age-Related Problems to Improve Doctor-Patient Conversations in Community Cancer Clinics

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
| Texas
Lisa Lowenstein, PhD, MPH
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Expanding the Use of an End-of-Life Care Planning Program for Patients with Kidney Disease

The George Washington University School of Nursing
| Virginia
Dale Lupu, PhD, MPH
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Expanding Use of the Health-E You/Salud iTu Mobile App to Promote Birth Control Use among Teens

The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
| California
Kathleen Tebb, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Supporting Ongoing Use of Two Conversation Aids for Making Decisions about Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treatment -- The SHAIR Collaborative

Trustees of Dartmouth College
| New Hampshire
Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, MSc
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Implementation of Effective Shared Decision Making Approaches PFA)

Uptake of a Self-Care Program for Patients with Acute Heart Failure After Discharge from the Emergency Department

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
| Tennessee
Sean P. Collins, MD, MSc
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Implementation Project (Limited Competition D&I PFA)

Comparing How Well Different Diabetes Medicines Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease

Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, a Division of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
| California
Romain Neugebauer, PhD
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

Comparing Second-Line Medicines to Treat Type 2 Diabetes -- The BESTMED Study

Brigham and Women's Hospital
| Massachusetts
Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research, Research Conducted Using PCORnet®

Comparing Medicines to Treat Type 2 Diabetes among Patients Who Are at Risk for Heart Disease

Mayo Clinic
| Minnesota
Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS
Project Status:
In progress; Recruitment not applicable
Project Type:
Research

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