Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: January 11, 2018

Present:   Levi Bonnell, Marianne Burke, Jessica Clifton, Justine Dee, Juvena Hitt, Kairn Kelley, Ben Littenberg, Connie van Eeghen

Start Up: Marianne’s last day as Director of the Dana is March 31, 2018 – CONGRATULATIONS!

1.                   CoHSTAR Poster – Justine’s abstract for an upcoming conference in Boston: Center for Health and Research Outcomes related to PT.  This was a workshop on how to get the word count down to a slim 250 while retaining the essential meaning and covering the basic information needed.

a.       Spell out acronyms

b.       Specify “therapies”

c.       Standardize number of significant digits

d.       Add to methods: controlling for potential confounders

e.       If necessary, present only the adjusted findings in the abstract

f.        Next step: outcomes and costs

g.       Medians were used due to non-normal, highly skewed distribution

2.                   Good challenges for us as developing scientists

a.       Article review – e.g. as part of comps, as Connie experienced

b.       Ben’s Online Course in advanced stats – create any study, pre-register it, go to Open Science Framework, create the project, post your protocol, create subfolders, with a brief report as a final

                                                   i.      Ben downloaded 1000 most popular movies (Kagal): do long movies get bad ratings?

                                                 ii.      Method: linear regression: long movies get higher ratings

3.                   Next Workshop Meeting(s): Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., at Given Courtyard South Level 4.

a.       Jan 18: Levi found an article using Google street view to identify cars in the pictures, and predict voter outcomes – we’ll review ahead and compare notes at CROW

b.       Jan 25: Connie – presentation draft: Building the Integrated Behavioral Health Team through Teamwork: A Structured Lean Problem-Solving Approach

c.       Future topics:

a.       Juvena: protocol development

b.       LaMantia: predictors of successful R01 applications: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155060

Recorder: Connie van Eeghen