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Booth Captures Powerful Stories from Patients, Caregivers

Published: 
July 16, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
PCORI Annual Meeting
Research
A woman with scoliosis, a man living with HIV, and a wife threading the line between spouse and caregiver. These individuals and hundreds like them have shared their experiences in the MyPaTH Story Booth, and so can you at the 2019 PCORI Annual Meeting . The Story Booth is like a traveling studio...
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Fighting to Stamp Out Tobacco Use among Underserved Populations

Published: 
June 28, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
The United States has made great progress against the smoking epidemic over the past half-century, reducing the number of people who smoke from more than 40 percent of the population in the mid-1960s to around 14 percent today. But that still leaves more than 34 million Americans using tobacco. And...
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Join Us for PCORI's 2019 Annual Meeting

Published: 
June 24, 2019
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
PCORI Annual Meeting
I know many members of the PCORI community look forward to our Annual Meetings as much as we do. Those who attend regularly tell us how valuable the experience is. But I still get pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic responses we get as soon as we open registration for the next meeting. That...
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Teens and Families Trained to Engage with Researchers in PCORI-Funded Project

Published: 
May 23, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
Youth are not often engaged as partners in traditional research, and even in the kind of patient-centered outcomes research to which PCORI is committed, youth are less likely than adults to contribute.
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Say Hello to PCORI at AcademyHealth's 2019 Annual Research Meeting

Published: 
May 21, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
More than 3,000 medical researchers, policy experts, healthcare professionals, and students in health research will gather June 2-4 in Washington, DC, for AcademyHealth’s 2019 Annual Research Meeting (ARM). PCORI staff and awardees will be among them. PCORI is a long-standing ARM supporter and, as...
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PCORI-Funded Research Appears in Kaiser Health News and in Nature

Published: 
May 3, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
PCORI-funded research continues to make news, surfacing in recent feature stories in Kaiser Health News and in the journal Nature . The Kaiser Health News piece profiles the Bureau of Sages , a group of vulnerable seniors who, with Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award funding, have formed an...
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March 2019 Media Mentions

Published: 
April 24, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
We regularly share highlights from news coverage of our work, including the growing collection of results from our funded studies. Here are some recent examples:
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The Tennessean Opinion Piece Spotlights the PCORI-Funded CEASAR Trial

Published: 
April 23, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
Ralph Conwill—a prostate cancer survivor and a patient partner on a PCORI-funded study —wrote about his involvement in the research process for a perspective piece published by Nashville’s The Tennessean . In it, he notes that he serves as “an equal partner ... alongside the scientists in what is a...
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Integrating Patient Input into Kidney Disease Research

Published: 
April 15, 2019
Author(s): 
Paul T. Conway,
Richard Knight, MBA
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
In 1969, six patients on dialysis at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn formed a group to elevate kidney disease awareness, call for better educational resources, and create a community for patients living with chronic kidney disease. They met twice a week in the hospital ward—while hooked up to...
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Getting Useful Evidence to Stakeholders Faster: A New Round of PCORI Systematic Reviews

Published: 
April 11, 2019
Author(s): 
Jennifer Croswell, MD, MPH,
Jean R. Slutsky, PA, MSPH,
Diane E. Bild, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Research
At PCORI, our Evidence Synthesis Initiative provides overviews of research findings to patients, clinicians, policy makers, and others who need that information to make the critical healthcare decisions they face daily. We designed these resources to inform patients, clinicians, payers, and others...
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