Sunday, January 13, 2019

Progress Report - January 13, 2019


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

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