The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and Anthem cohosted a briefing on the need for evidence-based strategies to address America’s opioid epidemic.

Guided by patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders, PCORI funds research designed to provide patients, their families, and clinicians with the information needed to make better-informed choices about their healthcare options.

The briefing discussed the importance and need for comparative effectiveness research to support evidence-based practices to address the opioid epidemic. While there are therapeutic alternatives to opioids in managing chronic pain, there is a lack of research on long-term outcomes for these alternatives—as is the case with opioids.

Information/Reading Materials

• PCORI Research Topics: Pain Care and Opioids
• Blog: PCORI-Funded Research Addresses Pain and Opioid Use
• Guest Blog: What 30 Years of Living with Pain Taught Me about Advancing Research
• Morning Consult Op-Ed: Evidence About Effectiveness Offers Hope for Reversing Opioid Crisis

Meeting Agenda and Speakers

• Agenda
• Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
• Joe Selby, MD, MPH
  Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• Sherry Dubester, MD, MS
  Vice President, Behavioral Health and Clinical Programs, Anthem
• Erin Krebs, MD, MPH
  Core Investigator, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research
  Medical Director at the Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center Principal Investigator, PCORI-funded project
• Stephanie Taylor, PhD, MPH
  Associate Director, Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy
  Department of Veterans Affairs’ Health Services Research and Development Service
• Christin Veasley
  Cofounder and Director, Chronic Pain Research Alliance

This event was open to the public and it was in-person attendance only. For questions about the briefing or PCORI’s work on chronic pain management, please contact Josh Krantz: (202) 827-7730, [email protected]