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

Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: January 4, 2018

Present:   Levi Bonnell, Marianne Burke, Nancy Gell, Kairn Kelley, Connie van Eeghen

Start Up: Generalized Linear Models: using a link function to model data linearly that is not normally distributed: what Kairn and Levi have to learn based on a reviewer’s recommendation in response to a manuscript

1.                   IBH-PC Temporal Control Study – Connie’s upcoming UVM Reach Grant application draft

a.       Description

                                                   i.      Clarify timeline

                                                 ii.      The innovation is the new method

                                               iii.      Clarify methods, what’s on the 3^rd page comes too late – front load this and the value (below)

b.       1^st page

                                                   i.      Why should I care – what’s the value

1.       We spend lots of money on control arms

2.       This could explode the way we do control arms

3.       Questions – get excited about these

a.       Can we create a comparator

b.       Can we detect similarities

c.       Can we detect differences

4.       Method of forming a control group has strengths: a random selection of subjects to create many possible control arms, one of which is randomly selected; strengthens the conclusions of any research project that uses this method: scale and randomness

                                                 ii.      Value and challenge

1.       Lower cost and greater impact for UVM researchers to use; increased capability and opportunities to share and network

2.       PCORI is the opportunity; this is a chance to take advantage of it

3.       Overcomes the challenges of lack of interoperability of EHRs through better use of data warehouses

                                               iii.      Take emphasis off the constraints of the current study; focus on the opportunity for future studies

c.       Re-read for language and acronyms

                                                   i.      Constellations of practices

d.       Researcher Goals:

                                                   i.      This provides important pilot data to be PI in a bigger grant

e.       Explain Part 2 earlier

                                                   i.      Also include in Research Goals: now we can answer these questions

2.                   Next Workshop Meeting(s): Thursdays, 11:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m., at Given Courtyard South Level 4.

a.       Jan 11: Justine Dee’s abstract

b.       Jan 18: TBD

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

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IPUMS NHGIS Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear NHGIS User, We're pleased to announce several major updates to the NHGIS data collection: New American Community Survey (ACS) data 2016 ACS 1-Year and 5-Year Summary Files New time series data (Release 8) Geographically standardized time series now include 1990 data (as well as 2000 and 2010) for 10 levels of 2010 census units, from states down to block groups The standardized 1990 and 2000 data are derived entirely from census block data to achieve a high level of accuracy The data include upper and lower bounds to indicate the uncertainty due to boundary changes Dozens of other additions and updates include new tables that use "single race/ethnicity" categories to enable direct comparisons of race data across time New GIS files 2016 boundary files: 85 shapefiles for levels ranging from the nation down to block groups Historical place point files depicting the locations of incorporated, unincorporated, and census-designated places from 1900 to 2015 New types of data Geographic crosswalks: relationship files bridging 1990 and 2000 blocks to 2010 blocks Environmental summaries: land cover, temperature, and precipitation for counties and census tracts Vital statistics: annual summaries of births and deaths for states and counties Currently available data span 1915-1941 Upcoming releases will extend the data to 2007 Faster processing of large table requests Our improved extract system processes some types of large data tables, such as nationwide census block tables, much faster If you have questions or suggestions about these or other NHGIS features, please contact us at nhgis@umn.edu. We'd love to hear from you! Regards, The IPUMS NHGIS Team  IPUMS NHGIS | University of Minnesota  Copyright © 2017 University of Minnesota, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: IPUMS 225 19th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Supported by: The National Institutes of Health The National Science Foundation University of Minnesota

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