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Randomize Everyone: Creating Valid Instrumental Variables for Learning Health Care Systems
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Activity Restriction and Activity as Tolerated for Disk Herniated Lumbar. Completed, enrolled 37 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Randomize Everyone is a research project to develop new informatics systems and statistical methods for supporting randomization processes in EHR systems to do comparative effectiveness research. Two demonstration projects are being conducted in the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, designed to evaluate different weight loss interventions and common practices in the treatment of chronic low back pain.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Standard post-operative activity instructions (i.e., no bending, twisting, or lifting more than 10 lbs for 4 weeks, no return to work until cleared to do so).
Instructions advising activity as tolerated and return to work based on patient discretion