MIRECC was created in 1998 to coordinate state-of-the-art research and education to selected regions. The MIRECC at VISN21 is comprised of multiple cores and lead by Dr. Jerome Yesavage. We focus on PTSD and Alzheimer's research.
Our goal is to match the treatments for mental illnesses to the personal characteristics of the individual veteran patient. Given the extensive array of behavioral and biological treatments now available for mental illnesses, we will emphasize how matching specific treatments to individual veterans can improve the quality of care afforded our veteran patients with mental illness.
The ROC4 program (Receiver Operator Characteristic)
This software in the public domain and available for download.
ROC4 is designed to help the average clinician/researcher with a PC to evaluate clinical databases and discover the characteristics of patients, including genetics, that best predict a binary outcome. That outcome may be any binary outcome such as:
Whether or not the patient has a certain disorder (medical test evaluation) --Whether or not the patient is likely to develop a certain disorder (risk factor evaluation) --Whether or not the patient is likely to respond to a certain treatment (evaluation of treatment moderators)
When the predictors considered are themselves all binary (e.g., male/female; inpatient/outpatient; symptoms present/absent), the program identifies the optimal predictor. When one or more of the predictors are ordinal (e.g., age, severity of symptoms) it identifies the optimal cutpoint for each or the ordinal predictors, as well as the overall optimal predictor.
6/19/2008 - Updates on Dementia 2008 Presentation Files are available
7/24/2007 - Updates on Dementia 2007 Video Coverage is available
5/30/2007 - Speaker's additional information is available
5/28/2007 - Updates on Dementia 2007 Info and Presentations posted
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Contact the National MIRECC Education Group at mireccinfo@med.va.gov with questions about the MIRECC program.
