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Connecting Patient and Family Groups with Health Researchers
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At PCORI, we notice when organizations put patients and their caregivers front and center in health care. One such way organizations are doing this is by establishing patient and family…
May 2018 Notable Media Mentions
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We regularly share highlights from news coverage of our work, including the growing collection of results from our funded studies. Here are some recent examples: CRC: No Increase in Survival…
PCORI's Latest Milestones, Opportunities, Results, and Resources
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It’s been a season of milestones for PCORI in research funding, making important study findings widely available, preparing a range of additional funding opportunities, and planning a series of new…
PCORI's LGBT Health Portfolio Works to Address Major Disparities
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The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population faces unique mental and physical health challenges. Perceived stigma and a lack of cultural competence from healthcare providers can be additional challenges…
Recent Media Coverage of Our Funded Work
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As our funded projects produce results, we regularly share highlights from print and online news coverage of our work. In addition, we showcase recent coverage of our newest awards or…
PCORI's Influence on the Culture of Research
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PCORI has long prided itself on what we’ve referred to as research done differently . That means patients and other stakeholders are at the center of every step, from prioritizing…
Uncovering How PCORI's Funded Research Is Different
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PCORI was created for one distinct purpose: to fund and support comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) to better inform health decisions faced by patients, their caregivers, and their healthcare providers…
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…
How to Get Updates on PCORI-Funded Research Results
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As more of our funded studies produce and publish results, we’re working to ensure our stakeholders are aware of this progress as soon as possible. It’s part of our mandate…
Recent Media Highlights of Our Work
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As more of our funded projects start producing results, we will regularly share highlights from print and online news coverage. We’ll also showcase recent coverage of our newest awards or…
Putting Patients at the Center of Kidney Disease Research
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One in three American adults is at risk for kidney disease. The problem already affects 30 million American adults, 90 percent of whom don’t know they have it. The National…
The Power of Collaboration in the Fight against Cardiovascular Disease
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Despite decades of progress in research and delivery of care, cardiovascular diseases continue to impose a heavy burden on our nation, even though the disease is manifesting later in life…
PCORI and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Take On Vital Research Questions
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Receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can be frightening. I know firsthand—I was diagnosed in 2013 shortly after I turned 29, and after experiencing symptoms such as numbness, tingling and…
The Latest Published Results from Our Funded Projects
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When I last updated you on the latest scientific journal articles summarizing results of our funded studies, I told you how excited we were to see this fast-growing body of…
Changing the Landscape of Rare Disease Research
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A rare disease, by definition, affects fewer than 200,000 individuals in the United States. Up to 30 million Americans have a rare disease, and most conditions are poorly understood. The…
Introducing PCORI's Engagement in Health Research Literature Explorer
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What does engagement in research look like and what impact does it have? We can learn from peer-reviewed journal articles about the experiences researchers, patients, and other healthcare stakeholders have…
Refreshing the Engagement Awards Program
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The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program has awarded $48 million to fund more than 250 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative…
Patients Become Partners in PCORI Peer Review
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Peer review—independent assessment by recognized experts—is central to the research process, from deciding which study proposals to fund to evaluating articles for publication in scientific journals. At PCORI, our authorizing…
PCORI at Age Seven: Results That Matter, with Much More to Come
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As we start a new year, I’d like to take a moment to share with you some of PCORI’s major accomplishments over the past 12 months and some of what…
Four Questions for Trent Haywood
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The research that PCORI funds aims to help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions about real-world health and healthcare issues they face. Many of those decisions…
PCORI-Funded Projects Help Take on the Opioid Crisis
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More than 42,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2016, a 28 percent increase from 2015. This death toll contributed to a decline in the overall life expectancy in the…
Researchers and Stakeholders Describe Engagement Challenges and Strategies
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When researchers partner with patients and other stakeholders in patient-centered research, the relationships can present challenges and opportunities for growth on both sides. PCORI hosted a webinar this month that…
Three Questions for Lawrence Becker
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The research PCORI funds aims to help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions about real-world health and healthcare issues they face. Many of those decisions involve…
Recapping Our Annual Meeting: Delivering Results, Informing Choices
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I often speak about PCORI’s commitment to involving people from across the healthcare community in our work as a way to make the studies we fund more useful and relevant…
Pathways to Partnership: Helping Patients and Researchers Communicate
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Sometimes, despite our best intentions, researchers aren’t aware of the needs and wants of the patients who volunteer to let us study their lives. And many of those people might…
