Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: June 1, 2023

 

Present:   Justine Dee, Katie Grenon, Jerry Landau, Ben Littenberg, Jen Oshita, Connie van Eeghen, Liz Winterbauer (7)

 1.                   Warm Up: Welcome to Katie Grenon!  Welcome back Ben!!!

2.                   Jen’s manuscript entitled: “The Relationship between Communication Disabilities and All-Cause Mortality: A Nationally Representative Survey of Community Dwelling, Older Adults”. She is hoping for feedback on the introduction (pg. 1), analysis and results sections (pgs. 5-7)

a.       Title: need year timeframe?  Probably not. Consider “US” instead of “older”

b.       Introduction:

                                                   i.      Bring the “individual” into the introduction early; the “CDs” are not the focus

                                                 ii.      Once CD is defined, don’t redefine it in use.  Specifying the kinds of CDs in the original definition supports this. Do identify the source of the definition in the narrative.  Consider a statement: “We defined…” or “We adopted the xxx definition…”

                                               iii.      Shrink 3 lists of associations to 1

                                               iv.      When disparities in health are accounted for (e.g. DM), what is the mechanism that might result in differences in mortality? Does controlling for disparities dilute the true impact of CDs on outcomes?

1.       DM is associated with mortality

2.       DM is associated with CD

3.       Is the purpose of the paper to see if the bad outcomes related to CDs also touch mortality?

a.       If yes, then is it because those people are more likely to have DM?  If not, prevalence of DM does not explain the greater risk of mortality

b.       Therefore, people with CDs appear to die younger

4.       “In additional analyses, we controlled for factors x, y, z…”

                                                 v.      Consider including epidemiological context, e.g. prevalence of CDs – or better: keep the individual focus noted at the beginning of this discussion

c.       Methods

                                                   i.      Clarify dropping participants with no time to event data

                                                 ii.      Exclusion of dementia so as not to complicate the analysis – elaborate?

3.                   Schedule for rest of the month:

a.       June 8- Open

b.       June 15- Jen O. Healthcare Accommodations paper

c.       June 22- Emily WPC posters

Recorded by: CvE