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Evidence Updates Share New Findings to Support Health Decision Making
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PCORI’s mandate is to improve the quality and relevance of evidence that can help patients, caregivers, clinicians and others make better-informed health or healthcare decisions. Our Evidence Updates are one…
Placing Patient and Peer Voices at the Forefront: Engagement Projects Focus on Mental Health
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Mental health conditions impact individuals across age, income, racial, and ethnic groups. One in five people in the United States will experience a mental health condition within a given year…
PCORI offers up to $452 million through new health research funding opportunities on various 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 four…
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…
PCORI offers up to $308.5 million through new funding opportunities
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the application periods for nine funding opportunities that offer up to $308.5 million in total funding. The latest PCORI…
Promising Evidence for Telehealth Strategies for the Delivery of Maternal Health Care
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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered many uncertainties and concerns for pregnant people, who were faced with navigating frequent prenatal and postpartum healthcare visits under risk of COVID-19 exposure. The pandemic has…
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…
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…
Research to Improve Minority Mental Health
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One in six US adults lives with a mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Compared with non-Hispanic whites…
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…
Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Asthma Outcomes
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May is National Asthma Awareness Month—and a good time to highlight PCORI’s commitment to improving asthma care, with a particular focus on addressing racial and ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes…
PREPARE Study: Reducing the Impact of Asthma on Underserved Populations
Research Study Highlight
An easy-to-use, patient-centered approach to managing moderate to severe asthma improved outcomes for African-American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults, according to findings of the PCORI-funded PREPARE study , published in The New…
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…
Emerging Health Care Innovation Brief: Treating Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 and Expanded Use of Injectable Weight Loss Drugs
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The latest Emerging Health Care Innovation Brief looks at a few high-profile weight loss drugs that have received renewed attention with a recent policy decision that could expand their use…