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    Fact Sheets: Learn More About PCORI

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    Evidence Updates from PCORI-Funded Studies

    These updates capture highlights of findings from systematic reviews and our funded research studies.

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    Browse through a collection of journal publications that provides insights into PCORI-funded work.

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    Find out about projects based on the health conditions they focus on, the state they are in, and if they have results.

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    • Addressing Disparities
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    Featured Topic: Women's Health

    Learn more about the projects we support on conditions that specifically or more often affect women.

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    Engagement Tools and Resources for Research

    This searchable peer-to-peer repository includes resources that can inform future work in patient-centered outcomes research.

    Explore Engagement in Health Literature

    This tool enables searching for published articles about engagement in health research.

    Research Fundamentals: A New On-Demand Training

    It enables those new to health research or patient-centered research to learn more about the research process.

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    PCORI Funding Opportunities

    View and learn about the newly opened funding announcements and the upcoming PFAs in 2021.

    Tips for Submitting a Responsive LOI

    Find out what PCORI looks for in a letter of intent (LOI) along with other helpful tips.

    PCORI Awardee Resources

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    PCORI 2021 and Beyond

    During this webinar, PCORI leaders shared ways to get involved in PCOR, improvements to our funding opportunities, and more.

    Confronting COVID-19: A Webinar Series

    Learn more about the series and access recordings and summary reports of all six sessions.

    2020 PCORI Annual Meeting

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Public and Patient Engagement

PCORI’s Public and Patient Engagement program ensures that PCORI’s unique, patient-centered, and stakeholder-driven approach to healthcare research not only shapes the research we fund, but also influences the culture of research more broadly.

Engagement Priorities
  • Support and strengthen stakeholder involvement in PCORI’s research topic selection, prioritization, and refinement processes
  • Strengthen patient and stakeholder relationships to build and sustain communities that can engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR)
  • Guide and support engagement in PCORI-funded research
  • Promote dissemination and uptake of PCOR research findings
  • Advance the science of engagement in research

We engage all relevant stakeholders to identify and drive PCORI’s funding priorities, to conduct and disseminate the results of PCORI-funded research, and to understand and synthesize what we are learning about PCORI’s approach to engagement. This helps us inform and influence the field more broadly.

We approach our work by partnering with PCORI’s nine stakeholder groups through various methods and levels of involvement throughout the duration of a PCORI-funded project:

Strengthening patient and stakeholder relationships to ensure the growth of the PCOR community in many ways, such as:

  • Facilitating local, regional, and national convenings, topical roundtable events, forums and webinars, and targeted meeting opportunities
  • Starting the PCORI Ambassador Program, a national volunteer network of individuals to engage healthcare stakeholders who work at the community level to shift research culture by partnering with researchers, leading engagement initiatives, setting priorities, and spreading the word about the importance of stakeholder-engaged research
  • Partnering with other departments to lead topic-refinement activities to support topic-specific, multi-stakeholder convenings that help shape PCORI’s research portfolio.

Guidance and support for engagement during the project’s lifecycle, including:

  • Recruiting and training patients and other stakeholders to review every application for PCORI funding, and supporting the participation of merit reviewers each cycle through our Merit Review Mentor Program
  • Providing technical support and resources to PCORI-funded research teams throughout the project lifecycle and across PCORI’s program areas to ensure meaningful engagement across all of our activities.

Promote the dissemination and uptake of PCOR by sharing research findings and strategizing ways to implement them into clinical practice and policy with our stakeholders, including:

  • Recruitment and training of patient and stakeholder peer reviewers to ensure well-rounded assessments of research reports that come out of PCORI funded projects.
  • Regional convenings and topic specific workshops.

Advancing the science of engagement by sharing lessons learned from the PCORI-funded research portfolio broadly by generating, translating, and sharing engagement findings with the field and promoting dissemination and uptake of effective and meaningful engagement practices. These activities include:

  • Interpreting, innovating and evolving practice-based knowledge
  • Analyzing peer-reviewed literature and the PCORI research portfolio to understand what we are learning about engagement and what is happening because of it
  • Conducting research to explore how the influence is occurring and learn how engagement is happening on the ground
  • Translating our growing knowledge through various guidance, resources, training, and publications to facilitate uptake into practice so that engaged research meets the needs of participants and is efficient for all.

Explore More of Our Program

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The Value of Engagement

Learn how PCORI defines engagement has operationalized it for researchers and stakeholder partners.

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PCORI's Stakeholders

We turn to these stakeholder groups within the healthcare community to help guide our activities and the research we fund.

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Engagement Resources

View tools and resources that PCORI offers to guide engagement through the preparation, conduct, and dissemination phases of a research project.

We welcome the opportunity to share PCORI research findings and lessons learned in our experiences with engagement practices and methods. To submit a formal Speakers Bureau request, please complete this form. If you have general inquiries or questions for the Public and Patient Engagement team, email [email protected].


Posted: October 30, 2018

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Engagement

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  • Engagement in Health Research Literature Explorer
  • Influencing the Culture of Research
  • Engagement Awards
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Meetings & Events

March 15
Priorities on the Health Horizon: Informing PCORI's Strategic Plan (Webinar)
March 15
PCORI Workshop on Methodologic Challenges in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research
March 16
Board of Governors Meeting: March 16, 2021

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