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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…
PCORI approves $96 million for research on mental health, delirium, adolescent alcohol use among other conditions
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $96 million to support 18 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps and…
Topic Themes: Informing Future PCORI Funding Opportunities
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This summer, PCORI’s Board of Governors approved a set of eight broad topic themes that will inform PCORI’s funding opportunities over the next several cycles. The themes speak to everyday…
Promoting Health Equity through Telehealth Policy
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About this Blog Series Growing up in California, Mei Kwong, JD, dreamed of becoming a singer or an actress, but never planned on becoming an attorney, much less a nationally…
Kidney Transplant Recipient and 'Hope Spreader' Advocates for Kidney Health
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About this Blog Series When Patrick Gee, PhD, first learned he needed dialysis, he was stunned. He had never even seen a kidney doctor before and was shocked to find…
Veteran Turned Family Therapist Helps Empower Patients
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About this Blog Series As a former Marine, Ana Aluisy, MA, LMFT, has seen her fair share of conflict. In her work as a marriage and family therapist, she has…
PCORI offers up to $467 million through new research funding opportunities on high-priority 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 high-priority topics, study the best ways…
Integrating Hearing Care into Health Care
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In 2019, PCORI issued a call for research proposals to help address the highly prevalent, but often undertreated, condition of age-related hearing loss. Sherri Smith, AuD, PhD, Associate Professor of…
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…
PCORI to develop up to $113 million in new funding opportunities to reduce maternal health inequities and improve management of multiple chronic conditions
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved the development of new research funding opportunities, providing up to $63 million for studies on reducing…
PCORI-Funded Research Promotes Kidney Health in Observance of National Kidney Month
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Healthy kidneys are key to healthy bodies—acting as a filter so that the nutrients we need to stay in our bloodstream are kept circulating while waste products are released in…
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 offers up to $297.5 million through new funding opportunities
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WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the application periods for eight funding opportunities that offer up to $297.5 million in total funding. The latest PCORI Funding Announcements…
PCORI approves $94 million to fund new colorectal cancer screening study in older adults and Phase 3 of PCORnet infrastructure project
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WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved an award slate with $32.7 million for a large, multi-phase comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) study to compare…
PCORI Funding Opportunities Open September 7
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Delivering on its commitment to develop an extensive pipeline of funding opportunities made earlier this year, PCORI opens its third funding cycle on September 7. The funding cycle includes nine…
PCORI seeks patient-centered research proposals through funding opportunities offering up to $304 million in total
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Emphasizing interest in improving postpartum outcomes for women experiencing disparities in health care, nonsurgical options for women with urinary incontinence, and interventions targeting mental health conditions in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began accepting proposals for research designed to help patients and those who care for them to make better-informed health care decisions.
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.
Spreading Awareness and Interventions for Mental Health
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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…
Can Some MS Patients Safely Stop Taking Medicines?
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Multiple sclerosis is an often disabling neurological condition that affects about 400,000 people in the United States. People with MS can develop a wide variety of symptoms, including vision problems…
A Call for Research Questions: Help Us Identify Opportunities to Improve Care for Cardiovascular Diseases
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Building on our hallmark of engaging healthcare stakeholders in all phases of research, PCORI is excited to join the American Heart Association (AHA) in announcing a crowdsourcing challenge for clinicians…
PREVENT CLOT Study: Aspirin as Effective as Injectable Blood Thinner to Prevent Blood Clots
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Over-the-counter aspirin is as effective as low-molecular-weight heparin, a commonly used injectable blood thinner, in preventing life-threatening blood clots among patients hospitalized due to a fracture, according to findings from…
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…
Online Decision Aid Helping Patients with Kidney Disease Make Treatment Decisions, PCORI-Funded DART Study Finds
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About 37 million Americans live with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and may not know about their options for treatment or the benefits and harms of each choice. A PCORI-funded research…
New Research PCORI Funding Announcements Open: LOIs Due February 7
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PCORI's Online System opened on January 10, 2023, for the submission of Letters of Intent (LOI) for the following PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs). LOIs are due on February 7 by…