Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Aug 19, 2021

 

Present:   Claudia Abbiati, Levi Bonnell, Nancy Gell, Juvena Hitt, Emily Houston, Ben Littenberg, Charlie MacLean, Jen Oshita, Liliane Savard, Adam Sprouse-Blum, Connie van Eeghen (11)

 1.                   Warm Up: Jen received notice from NIDCD that she will receive an F31 award – congratulations!

2.                   Jen O’s Aims and Figure 2: Review of Jen Oshita’s draft intro and methods of a manuscript titled “Healthcare Communication Support in Older Adult Patients with Silent Communication Difficulties”. Her questions are at the design level of the study:

a.       Do my aims and Figure 2 make sense (especially with the different sample populations for the different aims)?

                                                   i.      This is a descriptive piece on prevalence: numerator and denominator

                                                 ii.      Conditions are self-reported, labeled as “communication difficulties”: this works as long as the term is not used in other ways in the field and investigators in the field care about this

                                               iii.      Narrowed CD to “under reported CDs”

                                               iv.      Used different denominators, based on phase of study (see CONSORT diagram) as appropriate to the Aim; keep all numbers in the diagram as the denominators in the study

                                                 v.      Reconsider use of “under recognized” or “under reported” – explain how this became important in the introduction in explicit steps of how you got there. Exclude dementia as an obvious cause of CDs and then don’t come back to it.

1.       Note that some of the population in this study ARE recognized as having CD

2.       Worked on reorganizing the aims: all about community dwelling older adults

3.                   Next week:  TBD