Posts

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…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved PCORI investing up to $600 million in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) through the development…

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…

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…

Editor's Note (February 27, 2023) These eight Topic Themes join four that are ongoing—preventing maternal morbidity and mortality, improving outcomes for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, addressing COVID-19, and…

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…

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…

Our efforts to engage patients and stakeholders across the healthcare community, and focus on outcomes of interest to patients and those who care for them, are how we conduct Research…

More than a dozen topics ranging from healthy aging to prevention of drug addiction among adolescents and from telehealth to addressing bias, racism and discrimination throughout the health care continuum will be the focus of efforts to develop future research funding opportunities from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) following approval at today’s PCORI Board of Governors meeting.

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…

Mental health is a topic that some people feel uncomfortable discussing. But failing to spread mental health awareness can have serious consequences. For example, people with serious mental illness (SMI)—conditions…

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…

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…

On May 7, 2024, PCORI will begin accepting Letter of Intent (LOI) submissions for the Addressing Substance Use Topical PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) under Cycle 2 2024. This Topical PFA…

PCORI's Online System will open on May 7, 2024, for the submission of Letters of Intent (LOI) for several research PCORI Funding Announcements (PFA), which will fund proposals for high-quality…

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…

PCORI will be hosting several virtual applicant town halls for prospective applicants to learn more about the new Research PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) that open on May 7. Attendees will…

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…