University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2018 New Grants

Awarded July - December 2018

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	SPONSOR – FAIN	SUMMARY
Bennett, Tell, MD, MS	NIH – R03 R03HD094912	Archiving Common Data Element-Harmonized Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Data and Metadata This proposal aims to 1) harmonize data from a multi-center prospective cohort study of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to NIH common data elements and 2) make those data available in a federal TBI data repository and also as a free and open-source package for the R statistical programming environment.
Dempsey, Amanda, MD, PhD, MPH	CDC – U01 U01IP0019091	Understanding and Addressing Vaccination Disparities Among Rural Adolescents We propose to test the efficacy of a community-engaged research process, called Boot Camp Translation, for its ability to result in the development of effective strategies, products and implementation plans that increase adolescent vaccination in rural Western Colorado.
Matlock, Dan, MD, MPH	PCORI SDM-2017C2-8640	Implementation of Effective Shared Decision-Making Approaches in Practice Settings The goal of this project is to implement the SDM program at all 174 LVAD programs in the United States. Our implementation will be guided by a popular theory (known as the Diffusion of Innovation Theory) to help us provide the right resources to each program.
Matlock, Dan, MD, MPH	NIH – R21 R21AG059114	Pilot Evaluation of Hospice Decision Support Tools This project addresses this key gap in quality patient-centered care for people facing end-of-life decisions by testing the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a novel hospice patient decision aid developed by the study team.
Sean O'Leary, MD, MPH	NIH – R01 R01HD093628	Evaluation of the Presumptively Initiating Vaccines and Optimizing Talk with Motivational Interviewing (PIVOT with MI) Intervention The overall goal of this project is to evaluate the impact of a novel and innovative provider communication strategy on vaccine acceptance among vaccine-hesitant parents.
Morris, Megan PhD, MPH	NIH – R21 R21DC016965	Disparities in Patient-centered Communication Experienced by Patients with Communication Disabilities This study will determine whether providers use less patient-centered communication with patients with a communication disorder as compared to patients without a communication disorder, and will explore the provider-level factors, including implicit and explicit biases, that could impact the communication.
Scott, Halden, MD	AHRQ – K08 K08HS025696	Enhancing Quality in Pediatric Sepsis with Shock Prediction and Early Electronic Decision Support (EQUIP with SPEED) Predictive modeling will be utilized to improve early diagnosis of pediatric sepsis, and test the delivery of clinical decision support to clinicians through the electronic health record in an implementation trial.
Thompson, Darcy, MD, MPH/MSPH	NIH – R01 R01NR017605	Factors Influencing Screen Media Use in Low-income Mexican American toddlers This study will provide the basis for developing culturally-tailored, family-based interventions promoting healthy screen use in early childhood in a large population at high risk for early childhood obesity.
Ho, Michael, MD	NIH – UG3 UG3HL144163	Personalized Patient Data and Behavioral Nudges to Improve Adherence to Chronic Cardiovascular Medications This study will employ population-level pharmacy data to identify non-adherent patients and utilize cell phones to send them tailored, engaging and motivating text messages and text message based chat through an artificially intelligent (AI) interactive chat bot to improve cardiac medication adherence and patient outcomes in three integrated healthcare delivery systems.
Ong, Taon, PhD	PCORI	Improving Methods for Conducting PCOR The overall goal of this project is to improve data quality (DQ) and accelerate research by lowering the technical and regulatory barriers to multi-institutional data sharing via the development of incremental privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) methods.
McLeod, Lisa, MD	SUBCONTRACT U01HL143475	Preparing for a Hybrid Trial of Pulse Oximetry De-implementation in Stable Infants with Bronchiolitis This project will prepare for the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) Pulse Oximetry Trial, an effectiveness-implementation trial grounded in the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research focused on de-implementing overuse of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in bronchiolitis.