Sunitha Vemula Kaiser

One Step at a Time: Design and Rationale for Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials

Stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials provide researchers with an opportunity to simultaneously implement and evaluate systemic interventions in real-world settings. This study design may have advantages compared with other cluster randomized trial (CRT) designs by optimizing f...

Implementing Respiratory Illness Care Pathways in General Hospitals: A Cluster Randomized Trial

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A prior study at a freestanding children's hospital tested simultaneous implementation of multiple clinical pathways and demonstrated improved guideline adherence and patient health outcomes. This high-efficiency approach has not been studied in general...