Supporting Research in Pain Management for Veterans and Military Service Members
Supporting Research in Pain Management for Veterans and Military Service Members

Work Groups Provide Expertise & Guidance
for Pragmatic Clinical Trials

PMC Work Groups

The Pain Management Collaboratory Work Groups brings together experts in a wide array of areas, from biostatistics to ethics to data sharing to address the complexities inherent in pragmatic clinical trials, ensure that the pragmatic trials produce reliable and trustworthy data, engage all stakeholders in this collaborative, and more.

Biostatistics and Study Design

Providing guidance and collaboration on the design and implementation of PMC pragmatic trials, the Biostatistics and Study Design Work Group ensures efficient and robust study design and analysis plans.
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Implementation Science

The Implementation Science Work Group supports the pragmatic trials in developing and integrating the latest dissemination and implementation methods, as well as practices that facilitate the uptake of evidence-based findings into healthcare settings.
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Data Sharing

The Data Sharing Work Group addresses a wide array of issues related to planning, designing and implementing the PMC pragmatic trials, including data and software sharing plans, and the data standards required for study implementation, execution and conduct.
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Ethics and Regulatory

The Ethics and Regulatory Work Group identifies areas of ethical and regulatory importance and works with selected pragmatic trial teams to address these complexities within the VA and DoD health care systems.
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Data Science

The mission of the Data Science Work Group is to support standardization, integration and sharing data to advance the field of pain research. The work group will also ientify best practices and resources for EHR data use and data resource sharing.​
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Partner Engagement

The core objective of the Shareholder Engagement Work Group is to develop respectful and productive partnerships that will maximize our ability to generate trustworthy, internally valid findings.
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Engaging Partners in Dissemination and Implementation

The overall mission of the Engaging Partners in Dissemination and Implementation Work Group is to establish and nurture respectful and productive  partnerships among Veterans, Military Service Members, their dependents, pragmatic clinical trial (PCT) research teams, health systems, and policy makers.
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Phenotypes and Outcomes

The Phenotypes and Outcomes Work Group identifies reliable and clinically meaningful phenotypes among study participants, promotes harmonization of measurement approaches, and provides a forum for analytic, technical, and regulatory issues.
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Electronic Health Record (EHR)

The goals of the EHR Work Group are to optimize use of existing EHR data, support integration of patient reported data, and to create new data from unstructured text in EHRs using innovative ML and NLP tools.
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Publications from PMC Work Groups

Work Group Project Managers & Meetings Schedule

Work GroupCo-chairsProject ManagerMeeting Time and Frequency
Biostatistics and Study Design Jim Dziura
Tassos Kyriakides		Mary GedaQuarterly
March/June/Sept/Dec
2nd Monday
12:00 PM ET
Data ScienceBob Edwards
Steve Luther		Mary GedaQuarterly
March/June/Sept/Dec
1st Friday
2:00 PM ET
Ethics and RegulatoryFred Wright
Joe Ali		Amy BurnsQuarterly
Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct
4th Thursday
1:00 PM ET

The goal of the Collaboratory is to develop the capacity to implement cost-effective large-scale pragmatic clinical research in military and veteran health care delivery organizations focusing on nonpharmacological approaches to pain management and other comorbid conditions.

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