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Announcing Second Annual DBEI & CCEB Research Day

Please join us on March 21 as we showcase the highlights of our important work and present a special lecture by informatics research leader Peter J. Embi, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute. Read more.

Toward Evidence-Based Guidelines in Opioids for Acute Pain

The National Academy of Medicine has appointed M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, to its committee on Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain. The group will develop a framework to evaluate the existing guidelines and recommend a future research agenda to enable development of guidelines that are evidence based. Read more.

Training Researchers to Focus on Patient-Centered Care

Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE, is co-Principal Investigator of the new Transforming the Generation and Adoption of PCOR into Practice (T-GAPP) project, which received a $3 million award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Read more.

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In the News

To Cut Down on Distracted Driving, Fight Tech With Tech

December 2018

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MSCE, is studying how to “gamify”—or create incentives for—safety steps, so that it becomes “a much more engaging experience and more fun” to stay off the phone while driving.

Read the article in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Closing the Gap in Smoking Cessation

December 2018

Black and Hispanic Americans quit smoking successfully only half as often as their white counterparts. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded $11 million for researchers led by Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics, to find out what could help.

Read the article in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Kickoff Rule Change Tied to Fewer Concussions

October 2018

A rule change significantly reduces concussions from kickoffs, an especially dangerous play, in college football, reported Douglas Wiebe, PhD, and colleagues recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The positive results in the Ivy League athletic conference show how a public-health intervention can emerge from collaboration among injury epidemiologists, coaches and athletic trainers, commented Dr. Wiebe.

Read the CNN coverage.
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About the CCEB

How can we answer and anticipate the pressing health issues we face together as a society? At the CCEB we rise to that challenge through research and training in epidemiology and in biostatistics. We solve problems facing patients and populations. MORE

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