PCORI

Failure to follow good research practices can result in studies that don’t provide findings useful for informing clinical decisions. To avoid such wasted effort, PCORI’s authorizing law required that our research program be based on rigorous scientific methods and that we develop a set of standards...

At PCORI, we know that when it comes to research, methods matter. Patients, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders won’t fully trust the results of PCORI-funded research if we can’t vouch for the way the projects were conducted. To help ensure that everyone can have confidence in the results...

Each funding cycle, we at PCORI update our announcements to ensure we support projects that address critical research gaps. In this blog post, we address changes to the Cycle 2 2015 announcement related to improving methods for conducting patient-centered outcomes research. A subsequent post will...

Limitations in the design, implementation, and analysis of clinical research can produce biased study results that could have serious consequences for patients. For example, common methodological problems may overestimate benefits of treatments and underestimate risks. Getting the methods right is...