ECHO ISPCTN January Bulletin 2021

ISPCTN Communication

As a reminder, a weekly checklist comes out each Monday highlighting action items and brief updates for clinical sites. The ECHO ISPCTN monthly bulletin comes out on the first Tuesday of each month. If you are not currently receiving the weekly checklist email, please notify us at askDCOC@uams.edu.

Congratulations!

The ECHO ISPCTN has its first ACT NOW Current Experience manuscript officially published in Pediatrics; Site-Level Variation in the Characteristics and Care of Infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal.

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This manuscript represents a tremendous amount of work from so many of you, in the study design and implementation, the data collection and analysis, and in assembling this story for our scientific and medical peers. Be sure to share far and wide to show the hard work of the ECHO ISPCTN. Thank you to everyone who made this manuscript successful.

Be sure to check out the commentary associated with our article, emphasizing the importance of our work for the field. A huge win for ECHO ISPCTN!

COMMENTARY

Study enrollment update

The randomization cap for VDORA1 Part 2 was increased from 57 to 63 randomized participants. There are currently 56 randomized participants and 4 in the run-in phase. At present, new screening visits can be scheduled only by permission. Sites should contact Kimberly Harris directly at AskVDORA@uams.edu regarding any potential new subjects and copy their CSM.

You can access a complete VDORA1 study update here: STUDY UPDATE

Please continue to send all questions that you may have about site activation to AskVDORA@uams.edu.

Intervention phase update

It’s hard to believe there are only 4 weeks left in the intervention phase of the the iAmHealthy feasibility pilot! The intervention phase will end February 7, and the post-intervention phase will run from February 8 to March 7, which is when the post-intervention measurements will occur.

To prepare for post-intervention measurements, the DCOC will host a mandatory training refresher on January 14 from 2:00 p.m.to 3:00 pm CT, during the scheduled site meeting. The training will be recorded and placed on the ECHO ISPCTN Research Portal for those who are unable to attend the January 14 meeting.

Please note that the site investigator and blinded coordinators (primary and backup) must complete the training refresher before post-intervention measurements can begin.

If you have not already done so, please complete the short post-intervention measurements questionnaire. Your answers to this questionnaire will help the DCOC with resource distribution and logistics for the post-intervention period.

If participants contact you, please remind them that you are blinded and not to disclose any information about their intervention. Participants should contact the unblinded coordinator for their site with any questions. The contact information is listed below.

To access the latest ECHO ISPCTN Publications updates, click here:

To access the ECHO ISPCTN Manuscripts Author Roster, click here:

January 2021