Pragmatic Trial App Suite

• Engage your patients in clinical research through electronic recruitment at the point of care
• Recruit patients across health systems to participate in pragmatic trials
• Manage recruitment activities by using the Trial Management App to schedule appointments, monitor enrollment, and track follow up

Patient & Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage members from REACHnet’s stakeholder network, comprised of patients, health system leaders, researchers, and clinicians, throughout the research process
• Gain valuable consultation to ensure your project effectively aligns with the mission of patient-centered research

Streamlined IRB and Contracting

• Access IRBchoice, a platform offering optimal flexibility in IRB reliance for multi-site studies.
• Benefit from our Master Reliance Agreement, which among REACHnet partner health systems to increase efficiency of multi-site clinical research.

Prep-to-Research Querying & PCORnet Common Data Model

• Access standardized clinical data from 5 health systems conformed to the PCORnet Common Data Model (CDM), Version 3.0.
• Include prep-to-research query results in your proposal.
• Obtain cross-sectional or longitudinal datasets as a component of your research.

Health in Our Hands (HiOH) Patient Network

• Enroll your patients at the point of care into a network of over 5,000 patients that spans three health systems.
• Recruit eligible patients outside of the clinical setting study opportunities.
• Contact HiOH members for prep-to-research activities during proposal development.

Partnerships

• Partner with the Louisiana Clinical & Translational Science Center (LA CaTS) and the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet).
• Draw from our relationships with LA Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana and the Office of Vital Records to link data for specific research use cases.

REQUIREMENTS
REACHnet studies are required to be:

• Collaborative across network partners
• Patient-centered
  [Patients are involved as partners in research, not only as research subjects]

PREFERRED
It is preferred and strongly encouraged that REACHnet studies are:

• Pragmatic
  [Recruitment and ongoing data collection is embedded in healthcare delivery systems]
• Comparative effectiveness research
  [Compares health outcomes and the effectiveness, risk/harms and benefits of two or more treatments or services]
• Aligned with REACHnetand/or PCORI priority research topics

Prospective Research Request Form

Complete if you want:

• REACHnet’s assistance with identifying relevant stakeholders, like patients and clinicians, to help carry out your proposed research.
• REACHnet’s assistance identifying clinical sites to conduct your proposed research.
• To implement the Pragmatic Trial App Suite (PTAS) in a clinical setting in order to recruit patients into a proposed trial and/or collect patient-reported outcomes.

Retrospective Research Request Form

Complete if you want:

• REACHnet to prepare a limited or de-identified, individual-level dataset for you and/or your team.

Engagement Services Request Form

Complete if you want:

• To invite patients in the Health in Our Hands patient network to complete a survey.
• To participate in a focus group/interview.
• To lend a patient perspective to my study proposal or ongoing project.

Query Request Form

Complete if you want:

• To know how many patients in the REACHnet data warehouse meet a certain set of demographic or clinical criteria to inform sample size calculations or the feasibility of working with REACHnet.