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How Patient-Centeredness Dramatically Benefits Research
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This is a busy time for us here at PCORI. In the month or so since I joined the PCORI team as Interim Executive Director, I’ve had the great pleasure…
Looking Back with Gratitude and Pride
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When I became PCORI’s executive director in 2011, I knew it was the opportunity of a lifetime to help research more purposefully serve patients, clinicians, and the many decision makers…
Introducing the Engagement Tool and Resource Repository for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
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PCORI requires that its funded projects meaningfully engage patients and other stakeholders throughout the research process. Engagement with patients and those who care for them ensures that study results are…
Engaging and Serving the Veteran Community
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When military members return to civilian life, they sometimes carry undiscussed wounds, ranging from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to familial interpersonal strain. Frequently, these conditions are known only by veterans…
A Look at What's New in PCORI's Merit Review Program
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Merit review is an integral part of PCORI’s mission to help patients, caregivers, and other healthcare stakeholders make informed healthcare decisions, and to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. Our review…
New $90 Million National Research Study Is Latest to Tap the Power of PCORnet
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Today, the National Institutes of Health announced that PREVENTABLE, a new $90 million study assessing statins’ abilities to prevent dementia and other disabilities in older adults without cardiovascular disease, will…
Announcing New Special Engagement Award Funding Opportunities, Evaluating Reporting Tool
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Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program has awarded $85 million to fund more than 420 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR)…
Annual Meeting to Illustrate How PCORI Is Making a Difference
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We’re just days away from our fifth Annual Meeting here in Washington, DC. If history is any judge, it’s no exaggeration to say that this will be our best yet—they…
New Research Funding Opportunities Eliciting Ways to Improve Patient Care
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The Labor Day holiday marks the traditional end of the summer, the start of a new school year, and a return to the full schedules of our professional lives. For…
Tough Choices: Changing Lives with Shared Decision Making
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Wendy Keller was a beloved sister, friend, mother, and grandma. At eight years old, she and her family emigrated to the United States from England. Wendy built a wonderful life…
Partnerships in Women's Health -- NPWH and PCORI
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As a professional membership organization for women’s health nurse practitioners (WHNPs), the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) is a leading voice for courageous conversations about women's…
Booth Captures Powerful Stories from Patients, Caregivers
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A woman with scoliosis, a man living with HIV, and a wife threading the line between spouse and caregiver. These individuals and hundreds like them have shared their experiences in…
Fighting to Stamp Out Tobacco Use among Underserved Populations
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The United States has made great progress against the smoking epidemic over the past half-century, reducing the number of people who smoke from more than 40 percent of the population…
Join Us for PCORI's 2019 Annual Meeting
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I know many members of the PCORI community look forward to our Annual Meetings as much as we do. Those who attend regularly tell us how valuable the experience is…
Teens and Families Trained to Engage with Researchers in PCORI-Funded Project
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Youth are not often engaged as partners in traditional research, and even in the kind of patient-centered outcomes research to which PCORI is committed, youth are less likely than adults…
Say Hello to PCORI at AcademyHealth's 2019 Annual Research Meeting
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More than 3,000 medical researchers, policy experts, healthcare professionals, and students in health research will gather June 2-4 in Washington, DC, for AcademyHealth’s 2019 Annual Research Meeting (ARM). PCORI staff…
PCORI-Funded Research Appears in Kaiser Health News and in Nature
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PCORI-funded research continues to make news, surfacing in recent feature stories in Kaiser Health News and in the journal Nature . The Kaiser Health News piece profiles the Bureau of…
March 2019 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: A Diabetes Home Test Can…
The Tennessean Opinion Piece Spotlights the PCORI-Funded CEASAR Trial
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Ralph Conwill—a prostate cancer survivor and a patient partner on a PCORI-funded study —wrote about his involvement in the research process for a perspective piece published by Nashville’s The Tennessean…
Integrating Patient Input into Kidney Disease Research
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In 1969, six patients on dialysis at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn formed a group to elevate kidney disease awareness, call for better educational resources, and create a community for…
Getting Useful Evidence to Stakeholders Faster: A New Round of PCORI Systematic Reviews
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At PCORI, our Evidence Synthesis Initiative provides overviews of research findings to patients, clinicians, policy makers, and others who need that information to make the critical healthcare decisions they face…
PCORI's Commitment to Publicly Accessible Study Results Captured in JAMA Viewpoint
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At PCORI, we’re committed not only to funding research that can help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions, but to doing all we can to…
Patient Engagement Is Critical to Producing Useful, Relevant Research
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Since our founding nearly 10 years ago, PCORI has emphasized the importance of engagement—the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians, insurers, and others across the healthcare community in every aspect…
Partnering on Patient-Centered Research for People with Kidney Disease
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Patient-centered chronic kidney disease research is needed to help patients and healthcare professionals answer many questions they have about the treatment options that best match patients’ individual life goals, preferences…
Monitor Trial Spotlighted in Prominent Blog
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The New York Times’s blog The Upshot has featured the PCORI-funded Monitor Trial in a piece highlighting the study's finding that routine glucose monitoring may be unnecessary for people with…
