The Knowledge Synthesis Grant ($99,481) is for a one-year project titled 'What components matter most in secondary prevention interventions for coronary heart disease?: Better data for better knowledge usage Population and Public Health'. This is an international project, involving Dr. Alex Clark, Faculty of Nursing, U of A (applicant); Dr. H. M. Arthur, U of McMaster; Dr. T. Briffa, U of Western Australia; T. Chambers, U of A; Dr. A. Choby, U of A; Dr. L. Neubeck, U of Sydney; Dr. P. Oh, U of T; Dr. J. Redfern, U of Sydney; Dr. A. Shiri, U of A; Dr. J. Stone, Canadian Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation; and Dr. L. Thirsk, U of A.
The objectives of this project are:
- a systematic search to identify published randomized trials of home, hospital or community-based Secondary Prevention Programs for patients with or at high risk of Coronary Heart Disease,
- A meta-analysis using the INSPECT taxonomy to describe and classify all published trials into program components,
- Pooling of outcomes by meta-analysis to identify key effective program characteristics affecting primary outcomes (mortality, morbidity, hospitalization, and quality of life), and
- to disseminate information on key effective program characteristics nationally and internationally and make descriptions of past programs available online.
Dr. Shiri's contributions to this project include the support for the development of the INSPECT taxonomy (INtricacies of Secondary prevention Programs for Evaluation and Control Trials) for chronic coronary heart disease management and the design of a systematic search to identify published trials of secondary prevention programs.