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Reaching the Summit: Patient-Centered CER Helps Women Overcome Peripartum Depression
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What is peripartum depression? Peripartum depression is more than just “baby blues:” this condition is clinical depression experienced by a person during pregnancy or after giving birth that can continue…
PCORI offers more than $500 million through new funding opportunities
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began inviting proposals for new studies and projects through 10 funding opportunities. Five of these PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) are…
PCORI approves $80.5 million for health research using novel approaches to tackle social and clinical care factors that contribute to maternal health inequities
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $80.5 million to support four new, ambitious patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies focused on…
PCORI approves $225 million in funding for dozens of health research studies and related projects
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the approval of funding awards totaling $225 million, which include $207 million to support 20 new patient-centered comparative clinical…
PCORI approves $208 million for research on heart disease, chronic disease, palliative care and a range of conditions impacting people of all ages
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $208 million to support 17 new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies, including four trials of…
PCORI approves $123 million for research on postpartum care, hypertension management, antibiotic prescribing and a range of conditions
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $123 million to support 15 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps, enhance…
Spotlight on National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month
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More than 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease —a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affect blood flow and the body’s use of oxygen…
PCORI offers up to $467 million through new research funding opportunities on research topics
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began inviting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through nine funding opportunities. These PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) include up…
Funding Opportunities Focused on Management of Multiple Chronic Conditions, Healthy Aging, Results Implementation, and More Open September 7
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PCORI’s third funding cycle of the year opens September 7, seeking projects that answer questions about the most effective treatments for a variety of topics, study the best ways to…
PCORI approves $258 million to fund research studies addressing mental health, heart-related care, and a range of chronic and acute conditions
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved funding awards totaling $258 million to support 26 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps and…
Community Activist's Work Influenced by Service on PCORI Advisory Panel
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My time on the PCORI Patient Engagement Advisory Panel (PEAP), as both a member and chair from 2017 to 2020, has had a tremendous impact on my thinking about patient…
Evidence Updates Highlight New Findings from PCORI-Funded Research
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Conducting clinical research studies often takes years, from recruiting participants to analyzing data. It can often take many more years for new evidence from research to inform health care and…
PCORI Researchers Are Answering Rapidly Emerging Questions about Telehealth
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Telehealth—the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to access health care services remotely and manage health care—has grown in promise as technology has…
Drawing on Mental Health "Experts-by-Experience"
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An estimated 43.6 million American adults—nearly one in five—have mental illness. Anxiety and mood disorders, including depression, are the most common forms. While these conditions are usually treatable, clinicians often…
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Just as Safe, Effective as Common Medication for Anxiety Disorders, Study Finds
Research Study Highlight
Adults with anxiety disorders can experience comparable relief from either meditation or a commonly prescribed medication, according to findings from a PCORI-funded study published in JAMA Psychiatry . For the…
ELEKT-D Study: Ketamine as Effective as ECT for Treating Major Depression
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An estimated one in three people with clinical depression do not respond to antidepressants, limiting their treatment option to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which has been linked to physical and mental…
BeWeL Study: Award-Winning Video Seeks to Help Reduce Suicide Risk Among Alaska Native Young People
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September marks National Suicide Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness about suicide prevention and share messages of hope. Suicide is the leading cause of death among Alaska Native young…
TrACER Study: Changing Prescription Order Systems to Lower Risk of Febrile Neutropenia in Patients Starting Chemotherapy
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Some patients who receive chemotherapy develop a serious health problem called febrile neutropenia (FN), which involves having a fever and a low number of a type of white blood cells…