WELCOME TO CLINICAL FUTURES | A CHOP Research Institute Center of Emphasis
Clinical Futures, formerly the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE), is powering progress in pediatric care. As a Center of Emphasis within the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute, one of the largest pediatric research institutes in the country, we are committed to improving the care delivered to children. The center consists of dynamic multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, researchers, biostatisticians, and public health experts dedicated to advancing the conduct and outcomes of clinical research for children.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGICAL PILLARS
Biostatistics is the discipline developing statistical methods for and applying statistical principles to biomedical research.
Clinical epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease in patient populations and the relationships between exposures or treatments and health outcomes.
Clinical Futures pediatric trials are designed to gather data to answer important diagnostic or therapeutic questions for translating ideas and discoveries into clinical practices that improve…
Comparative Effectiveness Research is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor a clinical condition…
Implementation science is the study of methods and strategies that promote uptake of evidence-based research and practices. Implementation science offers rigorous methods to address the barriers that…
The Social Science Methods in Healthcare Delivery pillar promotes the integration of social science theory-informed methods into investigations aimed at improving how healthcare is delivered to…
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Sleep medicine 2023
Academic pediatrics 2023
Journal of pediatric urology 2023
