VIGOUR

Vision and Features

The VIGOUR vision is to enhance world cardiovascular health by creating, implementing, and evauating novel strategies developed through global collaboration, with a particular interest in:

• Examining mechanistic insights into how new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies exert their effects
• Examining processes of care and effects on patient outcomes
• Evaluating international differences and practice patterns and their effects on outcomes
• Advocating the development of new approaches to trial design and analysis in collaboration with sponsors and regulators
• Emphasizing involvement of site investigators and coordinators in trial design and analysis and dissemination of results
• Accumulating large databases from serial trials to address key temporal trends, overviews, and subsidiary questions of importance to patients, care providers, sponsors, and regulators

• Academically-based partnership for sharing information, resources, and responsibility
• Industry collaboration in designing scientifically important, clinical practice-friendly protocols
• International cardiovascular thought leadership with proven regulatory insight
• Clinician-driven project leadership
• Unparalleled global network of investigators
• Promotion of peer-reviewed publications
• Commitment to improving the practice of cardiovascular medicine and patient outcomes
• Education and training of physicians in clinical-research methods and operations