As we start the new year, there’s lots of progress to report
about the IBHPC trial. As of today, we have 3,032 patients from 37 practices who
have completed baseline records. 264 are not eligible for the main analysis because
they came from the two Vanguard practices or are incomplete. That leaves 2,768 patients
for our main analysis, or about 93% of our target. Records are still coming in,
so we should easily meet the target of 3,000.
44 of the original 45 practices are still engaged. Alas, one
had a change of heart. I’m disappointed, of course, but still very happy about
our 98% retention rate.
We continue to struggle with getting the essential
electronic health records (EHR) from 8 practices, but we seem to have made a breakthrough
recently in connecting to some of them that have a particularly tricky EHR vendor
and we are pushing hard on the others. I’m confident that we will have enough
data to perform all our planned analyses, but I am looking forward to this
phase of study administration to be over!
Other issues that we are working on include how to retain
patients and practices for the upcoming mid-point and final data collections, reviewing
proposals to use the IBHPC data for ancillary studies, and how best to
disseminate our results when they are ready.
Many thanks, as always, for your interest and assistance. If
you have questions or suggestions, please reach out!
Ben Littenberg
Principal Investigator
