PCORI

The research PCORI funds aims to help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions about real-world health and healthcare issues they face. Many of those decisions involve patients, their families, and their clinicians. But other stakeholders also must consider various care...

I often speak about PCORI’s commitment to involving people from across the healthcare community in our work as a way to make the studies we fund more useful and relevant to patients and those who care for them. That commitment was fully apparent at our third Annual Meeting , which ended just over a...

In December 2013, a participant in a study I was conducting arrived for what would be her 11th group therapy session for her substance abuse. She looked different this time: she was wearing lipstick, and she had braids and colorful barrettes in her hair. The woman explained that earlier in the week...

When I was 17, my father died of lung cancer. At first, when he started coughing up blood, my mother and he thought he had a sore throat and a cold. His treatment of choice: Epsom salts and gargling with warm water. After a year, my mother made him go to a doctor, but it was too late. His cancer...