Speaker: Mark J. Pletcher, MD MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Title: Learning Healthcare System RCTs
Summary: Modern electric health record systems enable new types of research, including "embedded" randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions delivered by the EHR system itself. We will discuss the mechanics, ethics, and methodological issues that these RCTs raise, and how we might approach the National Academy of Medicine's vision of a Learning Healthcare System that gains knowledge from every care delivery experience.