PCORI

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 of the research process—as a way to make health research more relevant,...

PCORI’s mission is to support clinical comparative effectiveness research (CER) that helps patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions. To accomplish this, we include patients and other stakeholders in all we do, including the merit review process we use to...

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 research topics, to reviewing applications for funding, to refining research questions and study design, to...

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 had engaging together on research projects. But these pieces are hard to find, because there...