Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Oct 28, 2016

Present:   Marianne Burke, Kairn Kelley, Rodger Kessler, Mike Lamantia, Juvena Hitt, Liliane Savard, Adam Sprouse-Blum, Connie van Eeghen

Start Up: Stories on learning how to drive manual transmissions and all other kinds…  Rodger’s announcement regarding Arizona State University

a.       Rodger and Juvena: poster presentations for North American Primary Care Research Group, both related to integrating behavioral health into primary care practices

                                                   i.      Can integration be measured?  Not in the past; this study has developed a method to do so.

                                                 ii.      The measure is process-based, not outcome-based.

                                               iii.      Over 700 practices have measured the degree to which their practices are integrated and are included in a data base.  The AAFP is interested in this topic and has a research arm (the National Research Network) to help us look further:

1.       What does this look like in FM practices?

2.       How does integration relate to outcomes?

3.       How could this affect policy?

                                               iv.      The tool (the PIP) is brief, Internet-based, and in use.

1.       Validation: four different types of practices included in the data set

a.       Exemplars (Tennessee and Alaska)

b.       Community Mental Health Centers

c.       PCPs with no BH presence

d.       PCPs with BH presence

***FIRE ALARM – END OF WORKSHOP!***

2.                   Next Workshop Meeting(s): Fridays, 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m., at Given Courtyard South Level 4 until end of Dec.   

a.       Nov 4: Marianne: study update

b.       Nov 11: Liliane: presentation for conference on motor learning in autism (no Marianne) (invite Deborah Hirtz MD)

c.       Nov 18: (no Ben, no Juvena) TBA

d.       Nov 25: Canceled

e.       Future topics:

a.       Juvena: protocol development

b.       Book club discussion of "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil, Introduction and Chapter 1 (pgs 1-30)

Recorder: Connie van Eeghen

Fwd: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Weekly Digest Bulletin

Here is the latest edition of the CDC Weekly Digest Bulletin. It is an interesting series that has general value to Outcomes researchers, but this week is especially interesting because we have so many students with a background in movement science right now.

Enjoy!

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Subject: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Weekly Digest Bulletin
To: Benjamin Littenberg <Benjamin.Littenberg@uvm.edu>

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Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Oct 14, 2016

Present:   Kairn Kelley, Ben Littenberg, Gail Rose, Juvena Hitt, Liliane Savard, Connie van Eeghen

Start Up: New opportunities in learning about how communication affects health service process and outcomes… and sexual function, based on shared clinical stories.  See Kairn for details.

1.                   Gail Rose – focus group planning for app on alcohol use

a.       Update: four undergraduate engineering students signed up to design the app

b.       Focus group development exercise (or not):

                                                   i.      Research or commercial project?

                                                 ii.      Recruitment?  Switched to “you”… what does that mean?

                                               iii.      Start with the end: the report – then explain the project

c.       Small business technology transfer grant

                                                   i.      Need more pilot data on usability

1.       Patient review of mock up

2.       Physicians – about 10 reviews

d.       Resubmit in 4 months

2.                   Next Workshop Meeting(s): Fridays, 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m., at Given Courtyard South Level 4 until end of Dec.   

a.       Oct 21: Canceled

b.       Oct 28: Book club discussion of "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil, Introduction and Chapter 1 (pgs 1-30)

c.       Nov 4: Marianne: study update

d.       Nov 11: Liliane: presentation for conference on motor learning in autism (no Marianne) (invite Deborah Hirtz MD)

e.       Nov 18: (no Ben, no Juvena) TBA

f.        Nov 25: Canceled

g.       Future topics:

a.       Juvena: protocol development

Recorder: Connie van Eeghen