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A Look at What's New in PCORI's Merit Review Program

Merit review is an integral part of PCORI’s mission to help patients, caregivers, and other healthcare stakeholders make informed healthcare decisions, and to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. Our review process ensures that proposed applications are appropriately evaluated against our...
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New $90 Million National Research Study Is Latest to Tap the Power of PCORnet

Published: 
October 23, 2019
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Funding Awards
PCORnet Blogs
Research
Today, the National Institutes of Health announced that PREVENTABLE, a new $90 million study assessing statins’ abilities to prevent dementia and other disabilities in older adults without cardiovascular disease, will take advantage of PCORnet ® , the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research...
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Announcing New Special Engagement Award Funding Opportunities, Evaluating Reporting Tool

Published: 
September 16, 2019
Author(s): 
Lia Snyder, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Funding Awards
Research
Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program has awarded $85 million to fund more than 420 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). To further our mission of supporting...
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Annual Meeting to Illustrate How PCORI Is Making a Difference

Published: 
September 11, 2019
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
PCORI Annual Meeting
Research
We’re just days away from our fifth Annual Meeting here in Washington, DC. If history is any judge, it’s no exaggeration to say that this will be our best yet—they just keep getting better. This year’s theme, Making a Difference: Using Patient-Centered Research Results in the Real World, reflects...
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New Research Funding Opportunities Eliciting Ways to Improve Patient Care

Published: 
September 3, 2019
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Funding Awards
Research
The Labor Day holiday marks the traditional end of the summer, the start of a new school year, and a return to the full schedules of our professional lives. For those of us at PCORI, it also marks the release of our latest research funding opportunities .
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Tough Choices: Changing Lives with Shared Decision Making

Published: 
August 2, 2019
Author(s): 
Melinda Kane, MS-HCM,
Ginny Meadows, MSHI, RN-BC, FHIMSS
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
Wendy Keller was a beloved sister, friend, mother, and grandma. At eight years old, she and her family emigrated to the United States from England. Wendy built a wonderful life – graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, becoming a physical therapist, marrying, and raising a family. She was a...
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Partnerships in Women's Health -- NPWH and PCORI

Published: 
July 25, 2019
Author(s): 
Beth Kelsey, EdD, APRN, WHNP-BC, FAANP,
Susan Rawlins, MS, APRN, WHNP-BC
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
As a professional membership organization for women’s health nurse practitioners (WHNPs), the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) is a leading voice for courageous conversations about women's health. NPWH champions state-of-the-science health care that holistically...
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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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