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Increasing Our Support for Sharing Research Results with Study Participants

Published: 
May 26, 2020
Author(s): 
Joanna Siegel, SM, ScD,
Elizabeth "Beth" Nguyen, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Dissemination
Research
At PCORI, our mission is to fund research that can help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions about their health care. When people contribute to this research, it’s important that they hear about the results they’ve helped make possible. Sharing the overall results of...
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Spreading Awareness and Interventions for Mental Health

Published: 
May 19, 2020
Author(s): 
Adney Rakotoniaina
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
Mental health is a topic that some people feel uncomfortable discussing. But failing to spread mental health awareness can have serious consequences. For example, people with serious mental illness (SMI)—conditions including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder—are at...
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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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COVID-19, Other Research Funding Opportunities Open for Proposals

Published: 
May 5, 2020
Blog Topics: 
Funding Awards
Research
As COVID-19 continues to present unique healthcare challenges to our nation, PCORI in turn continues to consider how we can best contribute to ongoing efforts to combat it hand in hand with government, industry, and other funders. As you read in April, PCORI launched the HERO Registry and study to...
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Introducing an Engagement Awards Funding Cycle to Address COVID-19

Published: 
April 20, 2020
Author(s): 
Ivey Wohlfeld
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Funding Awards
Research
Recognizing the public health crisis that COVID-19 presents to our nation, PCORI has considered in recent weeks how we could best contribute to ongoing efforts in collaboration with government, industry, and other funders. As you may have already read , PCORI launched the HERO Registry and study to...
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Our Shared Journey to Enduring Success

Published: 
April 15, 2020
Author(s): 
Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Executive Director's Blogs
Research
It is my great honor and privilege to join the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute today as its next Executive Director. I extend my deepest appreciation to Josephine P. Briggs, MD, who has expertly served as Interim Executive Director since November 2019. Her expertise and remarkable...
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Answering the Call on COVID-19

Published: 
April 1, 2020
Author(s): 
Josephine P. Briggs, MD
Blog Topics: 
Research
In this unprecedented and challenging time, PCORI is gearing up to do all we can to address the threat COVID-19 poses to the nation’s health with a multipronged effort to support research on approaches to prevent and minimize effects of the virus. A key piece of that effort is trying to ensure that...
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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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Building Research Capacity for the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Community

Published: 
February 28, 2020
Author(s): 
Rachel Mosbacher, MPA,
Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
At PCORI, we fund work that aims to reduce healthcare disparities, bringing underserved populations whose everyday healthcare needs often go unmet into the research process, such as those in the transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community. For TGNC people, gender identity differs from...
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How I Cured My Rare Disease

Published: 
February 25, 2020
Author(s): 
Doug Lindsay
Blog Topics: 
Advisory Panels
Guest Blogs
Research
Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of PCORI. There are an estimated 25 to 30 million rare disease sufferers in the United States. My name is Doug Lindsay, and I am one of them. This is my story.
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