Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: May 25, 2023

 

Present:   Justine Dee, Juvena Hitt, Emily Houston, Jerry Landau, Charlie MacLean, Jen Oshita, Liliane Savard, Adam Sprouse-Blum, Connie van Eeghen (9)

 1.                   Warm Up: Welcome to Jerry Landau, new CTS PhD student!

2.                   Jen’s manuscript:  Jen is asking for  comments on her CD Accommodation Services paper.  Her specific questions are:

a.       Title – is Communication Accompaniment too vague to include in the title? 

                                                   i.      Audiences in the two proposed journals are very different; goal is to reach a broad audience

                                                 ii.      Is the term necessary?  Liliane recommended “recommendations” or just “communication”

                                               iii.      Consider including “Older adults” in title

b.       Intro – General feedback on organizational flow, enough background lit? 

                                                   i.      The flow from older to all those with CDs and then to older is a little hard to follow

                                                 ii.      Does “older adult” need to be defined (new line 37)

                                               iii.      Carefully state the meaningful part of cited studies, see new lines 46-48

c.       Results and Discussion – Can it be cut anywhere?  

                                                   i.      Clarify how the sample represents 42m people – move to Methods?

                                                 ii.      Check author instructions re: whether stats need to be in both text and tables

                                               iii.      Do the differences found in social groups represent meaningful differences?  How do we know?  There is no gold standard but we don’t encourage this kind of disparity and we might want to have a target that reduces this disparity

3.                   Schedule for rest of the month:

a.       June 1 - Jen O. Survival Analysis paper

b.       June 8- Open

c.       June 15- Jen O. Healthcare Accommodations paper

d.       June 22- Emily WPC posters

Recorded by: CvE