Category: 2023 ICTS Symposium Posters

Introduction: As of 2023, over 46 million Americans met DSM-5 criteria for a past year substance use disorder. Research shows that substance use disorders are chronic. However, traditional treatment approaches rely on isolated, brief treatment episodes. Recovery care models offer alternative approaches emphasizing long-term support. One promising intervention is the Recovery Oriented System of Care […]

Introduction: For chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, heart failure, cancer, diabetes, and depression, more than half of these patients with prescribed medications fail to comply or refill doses as agreed with their doctor. Non-adherence to medication has contributed to increased healthcare utilization by chronic disease patients, high hospital readmission rates, and preventable medical […]

Introduction: Parkinson’s Disease is one the most common neurodegenerative diseases, affecting millions of people worldwide. Having a combination of motor and non-motor symptoms, people with Parkinson’s Disease (PwP) are often dependent on their informal care partners (CP) to carry out vital functions. While the effect of PwP and CP characteristics on caregiver burden and outcomes […]

Introduction: The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program is an alternative payment model (APM) which seeks to reduce spending and improve coordination of care for Medicare beneficiaries. The first model year of this program offered 32 clinical conditions from which participants could choose to enroll. It is unknown the extent to which BPCI-A […]

Introduction: Ultrasound (US) guided confirmation of central venous catheters (CVC) has similar sensitivity to the traditional chest x-ray (CXR), while being less resource intensive and lowering labor cost. In spite of this data, clinicians continue to obtain CXR for CVC confirmation and have not adopted US, a new innovation, to replace CXR. A protocol was […]

Introduction: Every year national funding organizations invest billions of dollars in the development and evaluation of interventions to improve people’s wellbeing. Pragmatic randomized controlled trials can generate robust evidence in support of one treatment over others. However, even where such evidence is generated, practice may not change. Based on findings published in the late 20th […]

Introduction: The Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) and PCORnet Clinical Data Research Networks capture healthcare use within their health systems but may lack information on care received elsewhere in the community. Here, we describe are usable environment (GPC Reusable Observable Unified Study Environment [GROUSE]) that integrates hospital and electronic health records data in the PCORnet common […]

Introduction: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a common hematologic malignancy. Our studies utilized electronic health record (EHR) data in the nationwide Veteran Health Administration to study the risk of progression of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) to MM. Disease confirmation is crucial in these studies. Relying on manual laboratory (lab) data abstraction to confirm diagnoses […]

Introduction: In 2020, suicide was the 12th leading cause of death for people of all ages in the United States (US), the second leading cause of death for people, aged 10 to 34, and the fifth leading cause of death for people aged 35 to 54 (Garnett et al., 2020). Despite prevention and treatment efforts, […]