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Removing Roadblocks to Kidney Transplant through Health System Change
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With just about any health condition, early intervention offers the best chance for a positive outcome. The sooner a diagnosis is made, and treatment starts, the better chance a person…
PCORI and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Collaborate to Train a New Generation of Learning Health System Scientists
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The benefits of learning health systems are increasingly evident in today’s data-rich healthcare environment. By collecting and analyzing data and experience from diverse sources, these systems are able to generate…
Addition of BPS Category 3: PCORnet® Studies, Beginning in 2023 Cycle 2
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The Broad Pragmatic Studies (BPS) PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) was first issued in January 2022 and is designed to provide funding for high-quality comparative clinical effectiveness research projects. All applications…
Tracy Wang, MD, MHS, MSc Joins PCORI
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PCORI is delighted to welcome Tracy Wang, MD, MHS, MSc as Chief, Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER). Wang will draw upon her clinical expertise as a cardiologist and her extensive…
PCORI Landscape Review on Value in Health Will Inform Continuing Conversation
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PCORI’s recently published Landscape Review and Summary of Patient and Stakeholder Perspectives on Value in Health and Health Care provides a comprehensive resource to help inform ongoing conversations between and…
Helping Teens with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Navigate the Transition to Adulthood
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About this Blog Series Kristin Lee Berg, PhD, LCSW, was never a rebellious teenager, but she did have to navigate total vision loss in one eye and partial blindness in…
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…
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…
Innovative Care Inspired by COVID-19
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About this Blog Series On March 10, 2020, the Department of Public Health confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in Philadelphia. Eleven days later, COVID Watch, a patient outreach program…
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…
PCORI Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker -- Co-Founder and President of Sick Cells -- Continues to Honor her Late Brother's Vision
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Every day of the year, and not just during National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, Ashley Valentine, co-founder, and president of Sick Cells, celebrates the legacy of her late brother, Marqus…
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…
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. Sickle…
Prioritizing Maternal Health with Community Collaboration
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About this Blog Series NeKeshia Jones, MPH, Senior Grant Specialist at Alameda Health System and prior PCORI Engagement Award recipient, says “the value of the collective community voice” guides her…
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…
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 Engagement Award Program Offers New Funding to Build Capacity for Small Organizations to Engage in PCOR/CER
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The October 2022 Cycle of the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is now open. This funding cycle has a new funding opportunity for small groups: Building Capacity for Small…
In Case You Missed It: PCORI's Executive Director Shares Insights on Priorities in Health Affairs Interview
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PCORI Executive Director Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH, shared her thoughts on PCORI’s role and the rich potential of its next phase during an hourlong interview with Alan Weil, JD, MPP, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, in May. Cook’s interview was part of a series of “Policy Spotlight” events in which influential, national thought leaders contribute to the journal’s ongoing coverage of health policy issues.
Resources, Roles, and Returning Value: Lessons from Patient- and Participant-Driven Research Communities (Part 2)
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As Patient and Participant-Driven Research Communities (PDRCs) have become widespread, PCORI embarked on an initiative to understand the patient and participant-driven research landscape more fully and organize a learning network…
Resources, Roles, and Returning Value: Lessons from Patient- and Participant-Driven Research Communities (Part 1)
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PCORI’s mandate to fund research that is done differently requires engagement of patients and stakeholders as partners. By “engagement in research,” we refer to the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers…
PCORI-funded Survey on Smell and Taste Dysfunction Prompts Tremendous Response from Patients
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Although the primary purpose of our ability to smell and taste is to protect us from danger, we often take these vital senses for granted. Jenifer Trachtman, Smell for Life…
Funding Opportunities Targeting Maternal Health, Hypertension Management, and More Open May 3
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On May 3, PCORI opened its second funding cycle of the year and started accepting Letters of Intent for several PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs), which include calls for: Research studies…
Making A Difference: A Special Journal Supplement on Patient and Veteran Engagement in Health Research
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Researchers are increasingly realizing that partnering with patients and stakeholders to design and conduct studies can make those studies and the results they produce more useful to those making important…
Beyond Access to Care: Addressing Disparities across the Healthcare Continuum
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Health disparities are pervasive and persistent in the United States. Despite growing recognition that disparities exist, health inequities based on gender, race, socioeconomic status, and other demographic factors remain challenging…