Evidence-based practice and the clinical research that informs it do not stop once patients leave acute care units.

 

• Leadership of one of the first and largest studies to evaluate the long-term usage trends for aspirin, beta-blockers, and ACE inhibitors to prevent death in heart patients—finding that there is still need for better prescribing of and patient adherence to these medications.
• An analysis of gender differences in 164 individual clinical trials, including more than 46,000 women and 160,000 men, shows that women respond as well as men to medical treatment of heart disease.