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A New Year, New Opportunities: Looking Ahead to 2024 and Beyond
Leadership Perspective
As I reflect on PCORI’s accomplishments in 2023, I see so much to celebrate, and so much to build on in the year ahead. As the leading funder of patient-centered…
Engagement Award April 2024 Cycle Funding Announcements Open
Blog
The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is now accepting applications for the April 2024 Cycle PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs). The Engagement Award Program supports projects that encourage active, meaningful…
Patient-Centered Research Is Critical to Enhancing Care Coordination
Leadership Perspective
Coordination of care—defined by our colleagues at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as “organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with…
Placing Patient and Peer Voices at the Forefront: Engagement Projects Focus on Mental Health
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Mental health conditions impact individuals across age, income, racial, and ethnic groups. One in five people in the United States will experience a mental health condition within a given year…
New Engagement Award Builds Small Organizations' Capacity for Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research
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PCORI believes research that involves patients and other participants—like small organizations—from the start will lead to useful results more likely to be taken up in clinical practice. This is why…
Engagement Award October 2023 Cycle Funding Announcements Open
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The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is now accepting applications for the October 2023 Cycle PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs). The Engagement Award Program supports projects that encourage active, meaningful…
Doing Research Differently: The Unique Value of Engagement in PCORI-Funded Research
Leadership Perspective
Over the past decade, patient and stakeholder engagement have become increasingly ingrained in health research and the body of literature on such engagement has grown steadily. PCORI has been at…
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…
PCORI offers up to $452 million through new health research funding opportunities on various topics
News Release
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 four…
Addressing American Indian Health Disparities: The American Indian Health Research & Education Alliance Native Research Ambassador Program
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American Indians (AI) are at high risk for developing chronic medical conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease, and yet are among the least represented people in healthcare research. In…
Innovations and Initiatives: A Look Ahead at 2023
Leadership Perspective
Our nation continues to face urgent health and health care challenges, including rising rates of chronic disease and mental health issues, the crisis of substance use, insufficient access to care…
PCORI offers up to $308.5 million through new funding opportunities
News Release
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…
Annual Meeting Highlights Essential PCORI Values
Leadership Perspective
The eighth PCORI Annual Meeting last month highlighted so much of what makes our community special: a broad, diverse range of engaged stakeholders; inspirational expert speakers; compelling results from patient-centered…
PCORI's Strategic Plan: What Is Next?
Leadership Perspective
At its June 2022 meeting, PCORI’s Board of Governors approved the PCORI Strategic Plan , putting the finishing touches on a rigorous and thoughtful planning approach underpinned by extensive input…
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…
Learning Drives Innovation in New PCORI Initiatives
Leadership Perspective
Our efforts to engage patients and stakeholders across the healthcare community, and focus on outcomes of interest to patients and those who care for them, are how we conduct Research…
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…
PCORI offers up to $262 million to fund new research on postpartum care, hypertension management, and other topics
News Release
WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began accepting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through seven funding opportunities. These PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) include a…
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…
MEDIA ADVISORY: PCORI Leaders Outline Priorities, Opportunities in 2022 on February 2 Webinar
News Release
WASHINGTON, DC—Join the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a fast-paced, live webinar on February 2 from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. to hear an overview of PCORI’s 2022 priorities and…
Engagement Awards Funding Announcements Open
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Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award program has awarded more than $130 million to fund more than 637 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes…
MEDIA ADVISORY: COVID-19 research, other timely health care topics headline PCORI’s 2021 Annual Meeting November 17-19
News Release
WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) next week will host the 2021 PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting , a free event running November 17-19 that brings together researchers, health care…
PCORI adopts National Priorities for Health to guide patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research funding
News Release
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors adopted five National Priorities for Health, which serve as ambitious long-term goals to guide PCORI’s funding of patient-centered comparative…