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Diabetes Results That Can Make a Difference

Published: 
October 24, 2017
Author(s): 
April Reese
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Guest Blogs
Diabetes runs in my family. Three of my four grandparents had type 2 diabetes, which is where your body doesn’t use insulin properly, and your blood sugar levels get too high. I also have an uncle with type 1, where your body doesn’t make insulin at all. I knew I had multiple risk factors for type...
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Building Awareness of Health Research in the Mississippi Delta

Published: 
October 23, 2017
Author(s): 
Freddie White-Johnson, MPPA
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Guest Blogs
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...
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Funding the Next Generation of Learning-Health-System Researchers

Published: 
October 23, 2017
Author(s): 
Gopal Khanna, MBA,
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Research
Executive Director's Blog
Guest Blogs
Funding Awards
The healthcare community is finding common ground when it comes to identifying essential elements of a learning health system (LHS). At their core, organizations that apply LHS principles are committed to improving patient care through the generation, adoption, and application of evidence to...
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The 2017 PCORI Annual Meeting: A Report on Our Progress and Promise

Published: 
October 20, 2017
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Evaluating Our Work
Executive Director's Blog
We’re just days away from PCORI’s third Annual Meeting . We’ll report to the nation on our funded research to help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions. This year’s meeting marks the first in which we focus primarily on the results of research PCORI has...
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Results That Make a Difference

Published: 
October 10, 2017
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Research
Evaluating Our Work
Executive Director's Blog
Here at PCORI, we are eagerly looking forward to our Annual Meeting which is now just a few weeks away. The meeting’s theme is “Delivering Results, Informing Choices,” so what better time to update you on the most recently published findings from PCORI-funded research? Like the studies we’ll be...
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PCORI-Funded Research Addresses Pain and Opioid Use

Published: 
September 18, 2017
Author(s): 
Layla Lavasani, PhD, MHS,
Penny Mohr, MA
Blog Topics: 
Research
Engagement Blogs
Evaluating Our Work
As the nation’s growing opioid crisis continues to make headlines, the underlying problem of managing chronic pain gets less public attention. Around 100 million US adults experience chronic pain, according to the National Academy of Medicine, costing the nation up to $635 billion each year in...
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What 30 Years of Living with Pain Taught Me about Advancing Research

Published: 
September 18, 2017
Author(s): 
Christin Veasley
Blog Topics: 
Research
Engagement Blogs
Guest Blogs
When I was 15 years old, I was hit by a car while riding my bike. It was an accident I wasn’t expected to survive. I sustained major injuries, requiring multiple surgeries and rehabilitation. It was a miracle that I could walk and talk normally again. By 18, though, I started developing chronic...
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PCORI's Data-Sharing Initiative: An Update

Published: 
September 6, 2017
Author(s): 
Jason Gerson, PhD,
Parag Aggarwal, PhD,
Katherine Jackstadt, MS
Blog Topics: 
Research
Evaluating Our Work
At PCORI, we try to ensure transparency in everything we do. It’s part of our commitment to the patients, caregivers, researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders we serve. This transparency includes our efforts to support open science, making scientific research—including the data...
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Finding and Recruiting Research Partners: Lessons from PCORI Awardees

Published: 
September 1, 2017
Author(s): 
Chinenye Anyanwu, PharmD, MPH,
Rachel Hemphill, MA, PhD
Blog Topics: 
Research
Engagement Blogs
Engaging patients and others across the healthcare community is at the core of all we do at PCORI. That includes requiring that researchers work with patients and other key stakeholders to design and conduct the studies we fund, and to disseminate their findings. Why have we been committed to this...
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A Clinician's View: Patient-Centered Research Is the Path to Better Health Care

Published: 
August 24, 2017
Author(s): 
David Hahn, MD, MS
Blog Topics: 
Research
Guest Blogs
Every day, patients make difficult decisions about their care. Should I have surgery? Which drug is best for me? Would I be better off waiting, or should I begin treatment now?
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