Angela Stover, PhD will discuss Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) reporting within the oncology setting. PRO reporting involves receiving information directly from patients and permit healthcare professionals to treat the whole patient through personal assessments of symptoms and of daily health status. She will emphasize PROs outside the clinic and will then report on the pilot ePRO rollout at UNC Health Care (where PROs are collected in the clinic).

Points of discussion include:

• What patient reported outcomes (PROs) are and how are they used in cancer care


• Clinical outcomes PROs can improve when completed remotely outside the clinic (at home) and in clinic


• Understanding of PROs via an implementation case study at NC Cancer Hospital

Angela M. Stover, PhD

Assistant Professor

Health Policy and Management

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jessica Young will discuss her experience using linked EHR and Medicare claims data to evaluate the agreement between data sources in characterizing medication use prior to, during, and following surgery. Immediately following this discussion will be office hours with TraCS CER from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

This is part of the Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Data Linkage and continues the conversations on improving clinical treatment decisions and public health for diverse populations by integrating electronic health record and administrative claims data in health research. Learn more about CER at NC TraCS here.

The Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration

Presenter: Jessica Young

Doctoral Candidate

Epidemiology

UNC-Chapel Hill

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REDCap is a web-based data collection tool that is hosted by NC TraCS. It's designed to be a user-friendly, do-it-yourself tool. We've had a lot of success with it over the years. It is useful for many research studies, including prospective, retrospective, pilot studies, as well as for registries and quality improvement projects.

TraCS is hosting this no-cost training to assist users in including some of the many features of REDCap in their projects. The instructor, Clarence Potter, has been managing the TraCS REDCap service since its inception 8 years ago. Classes are also available remotely (via Skype/Lynx) if requested.

For more information, please review our REDCap webpage.

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TraCS and CTSA partners at Duke and Wake Forest invite you to a virtual discussion on maintaining research resilience in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join us and our NC CTSA partners for a session featuring comments from the NIH, the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Burroughs-Wellcome Foundation on how COVID has impacted their funding priorities and policies, and hear stories from established researchers who faced questions about pivoting their research and how they made those decisions.

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