Blog

Monitor Trial Spotlighted in Prominent Blog

Published: 
March 12, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
The New York Times’s blog The Upshot has featured the PCORI-funded Monitor Trial in a piece highlighting the study's finding that routine glucose monitoring may be unnecessary for people with type 2 diabetes who are not on insulin. The Upshot post is just the latest in a long line of media coverage...
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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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January and February 2019 Media Mentions

Published: 
March 1, 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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Spotlighting Rare Disease Research

Published: 
February 28, 2019
Author(s): 
Scott Berns, MD, MPH,
Matt Cheung, PhD, RPh
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
A rare disease, by definition, affects fewer than 200,000 individuals in the United States. But combined, up to 30 million Americans have a rare disease, and most conditions are poorly understood. That combined burden is why one of PCORI’s six multi-stakeholder advisory groups is the Advisory Panel...
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December 2018 Media Mentions

Published: 
January 28, 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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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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2018: A Year in Review

Published: 
December 21, 2018
As we wrap up 2018 and look to the new year, we wanted to share a number of the milestones and news you might have missed this past year. We’ve gathered a collection highlighting our research and engagement projects, and patient and other stakeholder perspectives on our work, as told through blogs...
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November 2018 Media Mentions

Published: 
December 21, 2018
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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To Advance Public and Patient Engagement in Research, We Must Demonstrate Its Value

Published: 
December 17, 2018
Author(s): 
Kristin L. Carman, PhD, MA,
Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
PCORI is proud to be a leader in urging more patient and public engagement in health research. That’s why we require it in everything we do, including the studies we fund. And we’re pleased to see that others in the healthcare community are also increasingly advancing this work. But we also know...
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Engaging Parents to Help Reduce Medical Errors in the Hospital

Published: 
December 6, 2018
Blog Topics: 
Research
Despite ongoing efforts to improve care, medical errors—mistakes that may or may not harm patients—are a leading cause of death nationally . But results from a PCORI-funded study on improving communication between parents of hospitalized children and clinicians published today in The BMJ provide...
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