Meetings & Events
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Plenary Session - How Can We Do That? Effectively Putting New Evidence into Practice
Studies have shown that it typically takes 17 years for the results of a randomized controlled trial to reach clinical practice, if it makes it...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Breakout Session - Beyond Opioids: Improving Chronic Pain Management Using Evidence-Based Nonpharmacological Treatment
Chronic pain exerts a significant burden on the general population, with approximately 50 million Americans suffering from chronic pain and costs of $635 billion dollars...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Breakout Session - Implementing New PCOR Evidence into Practice: AHRQ's Experience and Lessons Learned
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is mandated to work with PCORI and others to disseminate patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings into practice...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Breakout Session - Improving Care and Outcomes for People with Anxiety Disorders
One out of every four Americans experiences an anxiety disorder in his or her lifetime, making anxiety disorders the most prevalent group of psychiatric disorders...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Breakout Session - Navigating Complex Choices: Shared Decision Making across the Care Continuum
Increasingly, patients are faced with health decisions that have many options, uncertain outcomes, and benefits and harms that are valued differently by each individual. There...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Breakout Session - Patient Perspective: Learnings and Strategies for Partnership in Research
A hallmark of PCORI’s work has been the engagement of the public and patients in clinical comparative effectiveness research. This breakout session at the 2019...Read More
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon - Day 1
During the 2019 PCORI Annual Meeting, the PCORI Dissemination and Implementation team hosted two Wikipedia Edit-a-thons. This was the first day of the event. The...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting Plenary Session - What's Right for Me? Practical Approaches to Personalized Medicine
How can research help people make health care decisions that are individual to them? This Opening Plenary session will review a few select PCORI-funded studies...Read More
Making a Difference for Children with Progeria: From Obscurity to Treatment and Beyond
Our Opening Keynote speakers are Scott Berns, MD, MPH, and Leslie Gordon, MD, PhD, accomplished Boston-area pediatricians and researchers. They cofounded the Progeria Research Foundation...Read More
2019 PCORI Annual Meeting -- Making a Difference: Using Patient-Centered Research Results in the Real World
As part of this year's theme, Making a Difference: Using Patient-Centered Research Results in the Real World , attendees learned about how patients, researchers, clinicians,...Read More