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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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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 both the health care and social factors that contribute to inequities in maternal morbidity and mortality.

PCORI offers up to $610 million through new research funding opportunities

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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began inviting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through 11 funding opportunities, including the first focused specifically on PCORI Topic Themes. These PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) include up to $610 million for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies that compare health care options to generate evidence that helps patients and those who care for them make better-informed choices.

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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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 particularly large scale and scope tackling complex questions. All the approved studies aim to fill evidence gaps and enhance health care decision making with a focus on a variety of high-burden concerns.

PCORI Creates New Funding Opportunity: Topical PFA

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PCORI is introducing a new type of funding opportunity seeking to fund high-quality, comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) focused on 12 Board-approved Topic Themes. These funding opportunities offered as Topical…

Improving Maternal Health Through Engagement

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In response to the increasing crises of over 700 maternal deaths and nearly 73,000 reported cases of maternal morbidity occurring in the United States as recently as 2022, maternal morbidity…

Topic Themes: Informing Future PCORI Funding Opportunities

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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…

Minority Health Month: Spotlight on COVID-19

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Each week throughout April, in recognition of National Minority Health Month, PCORI will spotlight health conditions that disproportionately affect communities of color. One of PCORI's National Priorities for Health is…

Minority Health Month: Spotlight on Hypertension

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Each week throughout April, in recognition of National Minority Health Month, PCORI will spotlight health conditions that disproportionately affect communities of color. One of PCORI's National Priorities for Health is…

Lower- and higher-dose aspirin achieve similar protection and safety for people with cardiovascular disease

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People with cardiovascular disease (CVD) taking aspirin to lower their chances of suffering a heart attack or stroke experienced similar health benefits, including reduced death and hospitalization for heart attack and stroke, whether they took a high or low dose of aspirin, according to a study presented today at ACC.21, the American College of Cardiology’s 70th Annual Scientific Session and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More than a dozen high-priority research topics approved for future PCORI funding opportunities

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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.

$5 million award from PCORI and AHA establishes center to support better-informed AFib treatment decisions

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A new research center will produce and test decision aids to help people with atrial fibrillation (AFib) more readily make choices with their doctors about their treatment options, thanks to a $5 million funding award. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and American Heart Association (AHA) announced the selection of the research team and home for the center today.

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