$1.09 Million CIHR Project Grant Awarded to Randomized Trial

Congratulations!

Drs. Kishore Mulpuri (PI), Emily Schaeffer, Bryn Zomar, and Simon Kelley, and PhD candidate Jeffrey Bone, secured funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for their clinical investigation project:

“Comparing observation vs. bracing in radiologically dysplastic, stable hips in infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip. An International Multi-Centre Non-Inferiority Randomized Control Trial”.

This study is based in the Global Hip Dysplasia Registry (GHDR), which presently has over 5.5 K patients.

Drs. Mulpuri and Schaeffer launched GHDR in 2016 to support hypothesis-led studies in the future, such as this Randomized Control Trial (RCT).

The project, which is the registry's inaugural RCT, will look at whether careful monitoring of an infant's hips can be just as good as bracing to ensure their hips improve for babies diagnosed with mild DDH under three months of age. If that is the case, then unnecessary treatment can be avoided, especially during that newborn bonding period.

This will be the first study to look at this question, with babies being treated at fourteen different hospitals in seven different countries, so the results will make an impact on children and families worldwide.