It often takes years for new evidence from clinical research to influence health care. Many times, these findings never reach patients and families who could benefit from the information.
Disseminating and promoting the uptake of research findings is part of PCORI’s legal mandate to improve the quality and relevance of evidence available to help patients, caregivers, clinicians, employers, insurers, and policymakers make better-informed health decisions. PCORI’s release of new evidence begins with translating all research findings into understandable summaries with the help of the Translation Center. Our efforts continue with programs and activities to promote the awareness of findings from PCORI-funded research and to facilitate the uptake of research findings in practice settings.
Awards that support the uptake of findings from PCORI-funded research in real-world practice to improve health care and health outcomes.
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Awards that promote the use of effective shared decision making approaches in healthcare settings to help patients and their clinicians make choices that are best for them.
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Awards to organizations with strong ties to audiences who can use PCORI-funded research findings. The awards support the organizations in actively disseminating findings to these target audiences, and also support projects to build organizations’ capacity to disseminate evidence.
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Helps prepare clear, comprehensible summaries of all PCORI research findings. We post these summaries—one for the general public and one for healthcare professionals—on our website within 90 days from when the research results are final.
We present findings from PCORI-funded systematic reviews and some of our funded studies in concise, accessible Evidence Updates that capture highlights of these new findings.
PCORI will pay fees to assure broad and timely public access to findings from PCORI-funded research that investigators publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
PCORI asks awardee institutions to make every reasonable effort to ensure that study participants and partners directly receive the findings from the research they helped make possible.
PCORI works with AHRQ to disseminate findings from patient-centered outcomes research that AHRQ selects through its public nomination process.
Our Communication and Dissemination Research priority area funds research studies comparing approaches to communicating and disseminating patient-centered outcomes research findings. The program represents one of our five national priorities for funding comparative clinical effectiveness research.
Dissemination and Implementation Framework and Toolkit
Learn about the framework, which PCORI created to facilitate strategic planning for its activities to increase the awareness of evidence and promote its integration into practice.
Questions?
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Posted: August 9, 2016; Updated: March 20, 2019