Community health workers have been a long-time effective resource to help families connect with providers and manage their health care. Sinsi Hernández-Cancio at Families USA shares her thoughts on why PCORI’s funded research on community health workers is such a priority.
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PCORI supports more than 100 studies relating to mental health disorders that, in 2016, affected roughly one in six adult Americans.
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PCORI-funded researchers are now implementing their family-centered communication program, which helped reduce medical errors in seven hospitals’ pediatric units, to 21 units across the US.
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