Evaluating Our Work

The Patient's Journey: PCORI's Investment in Research across the Cancer Continuum

An estimated 1.6 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the United States. With an aging population, the number of patients with cancer is projected to increase significantly over the coming years. Patients, caregivers, and their care teams need evidence-based information on...
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Treating Urinary Incontinence in Women without Surgery

Published: 
May 28, 2020
Author(s): 
Jane Chang, MPH,
Joanna Siegel, SM, ScD,
Kimberly Bailey, MS
Blog Topics: 
Dissemination
Evaluating Our Work
Research
Millions of women have urinary incontinence (UI), or leaking urine. Treatments can help improve quality of life for women with UI. Yet many don’t discuss UI with their doctors. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has created an Evidence Update to share research findings on...
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Visualizing Data to Compare Different Types of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Exercises for Women with Urinary Incontinence

Published: 
May 12, 2020
Author(s): 
Ellen Kimmel, MLIS,
Michelle Althuis, PhD, MA
Blog Topics: 
Evaluating Our Work
Research
A new interactive evidence visualization on pelvic floor muscle training, or PFMT, is now available on the PCORI website. This visual evidence synthesis tool uses data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to assess the efficacy of PFMT to treat urinary incontinence (UI). This evidence...
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Measuring the Reach of PCORI's Funded Research Results

Published: 
March 27, 2020
Author(s): 
Robin Bloodworth, PhD, MPH,
Heather Edwards, PhD, MPH, MBA,
Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH,
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Evaluating Our Work
Research
As patients, clinicians, researchers, and other members of the healthcare community know all too well, research findings can sit in the scientific literature, taking far too long to help improve patients’ lives—if they ever do. Since its inception, PCORI has been working to assure that findings...
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PCORI's Commitment to Publicly Accessible Study Results Captured in JAMA Viewpoint

Published: 
March 28, 2019
Author(s): 
Marina Broitman, PhD,
Hal Sox, MD,
Jean R. Slutsky, PA, MSPH
Blog Topics: 
Evaluating Our Work
Research
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 see that the results of those studies are made widely available. As we outline in a newly posted JAMA Viewpoint , PCORI’s...
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Patient Engagement Is Critical to Producing Useful, Relevant Research

Published: 
March 14, 2019
Author(s): 
Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH,
Kristin L. Carman, PhD, MA,
David Hickam, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Evaluating Our Work
Research
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,...
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Mapping Evidence That Patients Can Use

Published: 
March 11, 2019
Author(s): 
Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Evaluating Our Work
Research
PCORI puts a tremendous emphasis on funding projects that arm patients and other decision makers with information that can help them make healthcare decisions. But research projects take time to complete. That’s why we are simultaneously developing a suite of information products that can get...
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Making Research More Patient Centered, One Application at a Time

Published: 
January 25, 2019
Author(s): 
Ashlee Horn,
Roycelynn Mentor-Marcel, PhD, MPH,
Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Evaluating Our Work
Merit Review Blogs
Research
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...
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PCORI's Latest Milestones, Opportunities, Results, and Resources

Published: 
June 6, 2018
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Research
Evaluating Our Work
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 resources to help our stakeholders make better-informed healthcare decisions.
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PCORI's Influence on the Culture of Research

Published: 
May 3, 2018
Author(s): 
Ninma Fearon, MPH,
Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH,
Andrea Heckert, PhD, MPH,
Blog Topics: 
Research
Evaluating Our Work
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...
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