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Building Sustainable PCOR and CER via Engagement

Published: 
September 15, 2021
Author(s): 
Dane Bossert
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
PCORI supports research that generates information to help people make informed healthcare decisions and improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. Patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders guide our funded research, and the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program...
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Registration Now Open for 2021 PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting

Published: 
September 8, 2021
Blog Topics: 
PCORI Annual Meeting
The countdown to the 2021 PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting is underway with today’s registration opening. You may not have to book a flight or reserve a hotel, but you still don’t want to wait to reserve your spot at PCORI’s seventh Annual Meeting, which, though virtual, promises to provide attendees...
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PCORI Funding Opportunities Open September 7

Published: 
September 7, 2021
Blog Topics: 
Application Process
Funding Awards
Research
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 Funding Announcements (PFAs) on broad and targeted research, clinical trials, methodology studies...
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Study Makes Strides in Improving Parental Mental Health

Published: 
August 12, 2021
Author(s): 
Karen Fratantoni, MD, MPH,
Lamia Soghier, MD, FAAP, CHSE
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
Every time a parent leaves our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to take their child home, we are asking them to do superhuman things. At Children’s National Hospital, the tasks may include tending to gastrostomy tubes for babies who can’t eat by mouth or maintaining home ventilators for babies...
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Engagement Awards Announce Fall 2021 Funding Opportunities, Including New Special Area of Interest

Published: 
August 5, 2021
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award program has awarded more than $121 million to fund nearly 600 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER ). Supporting communities to...
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PCORI's Proposed National Priorities for Health: An Ambitious Vision for the Years Ahead

Published: 
August 2, 2021
Blog Topics: 
Research
As the nation’s primary funder of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research, PCORI examines the important questions that patients face and helps create an informed healthcare system. Congressional reauthorization in 2019 broadened this scope, giving PCORI the opportunity to chart...
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Reducing Health Inequities One Word at a Time

Published: 
July 26, 2021
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
At least 350 languages are spoken in the United States—a country that more than 44 million immigrants now call home. But when it comes to health care in their new home, this community faces a barrier in their care that others do not: limited English proficiency (LEP). It can make health care a...
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Visualizing the Benefits and Harms of Drugs and Devices for Migraine Prevention

Published: 
June 15, 2021
Author(s): 
Rachael Parsons, MPH,
Michelle Althuis, PhD, MA
Blog Topics: 
Research
Migraine headache is a disabling condition that affects one in six Americans. Making sense of research results for the many treatments available for migraine is complicated. To help patients and healthcare professionals understand study results and make the most informed treatment decisions, PCORI...
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Three PCORI Funding Announcements Targeting Urgent Health Questions Set to Open

Published: 
April 26, 2021
Blog Topics: 
Application Process
Funding Awards
An array of PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) open for Letters of Intent (LOI) on Tuesday, May 4, including three targeted announcements seeking projects on areas of acute interest. Two of them—related to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and maternal morbidity and...
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Artificial Intelligence: New Report Explores Applications for Health Care

Published: 
April 19, 2021
Author(s): 
Gowri Raman, MBBS, MS,
William Lawrence, MD, MS
Blog Topics: 
Research
Artificial intelligence (AI) aids in several areas of the healthcare field, such as medical imaging. As AI continues to impact the field, its uses have expanded to non-imaging applications as well, though the precise role of AI in these applications remains unclear. Therefore, we have developed a...
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