# ICERCH-Supporting the HEAL Pain ERN

> **NIH NIH U24** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2022 · $428,175

## Abstract

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is responding to RFA-TR-22-012 to be the Recruitment
Resource Center (RRC). We will work collaboratively with each ERN study team and the other
HEAL ERN Resource Centers and continue to develop and monitor comprehensive strategies
to address barriers to recruitment and retention in the five funded HEAL pain studies and two
additional studies, demonstrate their effectiveness in recruiting diverse participants and broadly
disseminate evidence on the most effective approaches to recruitment and retention of people
who have pain.
Our Recruitment Resource Center application has the following Specific Aims:
Specific Aim 1. Develop comprehensive recruitment and retention strategies for HEAL Pain ERN
clinical trials to ensure studies efficiently enroll and retain a sufficient number of participants who
represent the diversity of the study population
Specific Aim 2. Provide centralized participant-centered recruitment and retention services to
support HEAL Pain ERN sites in identifying, approaching, screening, consenting, enrolling, and
retaining participants.
Specific Aim 3. Implement, study, and refine novel recruitment and retention strategies (such
as EHR-based participant screening, e-consent, embedding patients on study teams, and
behavioral, informational and/or social incentives) and disseminate evidence on the most effective
approaches to recruitment and retention of people who have pain.
Our collaboration with ERN investigators and integration with the other TIN Resource Centers will
maximize the likelihood of successful and timely completion of the HEAL Effectiveness Research
Network clinical trials, leading to translation of research findings to the effective interventions and
management strategies for pain while, improving functional outcomes, and reducing pain across
the continuum of acute to chronic pain.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10592520
- **Project number:** 1U24TR004317-01
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Paul A. Harris
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $428,175
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-09-24 → 2027-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10592520

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10592520, ICERCH-Supporting the HEAL Pain ERN (1U24TR004317-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10592520. Licensed CC0.

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