At PCORI, we believe engaging patients and stakeholders with firsthand experience of conditions can produce more patient-centered, useful, and trustworthy research. Ultimately, this can lead to greater use of research…

We encourage interested patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and other healthcare stakeholders to sign on to become Peer Reviewers. We want to ensure that research studies funded by PCORI are held…

Learn more about how we are supporting the development and use of the best methods for patient-centered outcomes research. Learn more about PCORI's Research Methodology initiative.

Find out what we mean by engagement in research, how patients and other healthcare stakeholders become engaged in research, and how we can influence research to be patient centered.

Learn more about our research on specific, high-priority topics likely to have a substantial impact on practice and patient outcomes.

Engagement Award Final Summary Report This series of convenings brought together stakeholders engaged in suicide prevention to share evidence-based practices in reducing suicide incidence in western Colorado and develop a…

Engagement Award Final Summary Report This project involved patients and stakeholders in collaborative production, initially as redesigners to adapt the existing engagement tool, Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care (IBH-PC)…

This multipart project included a survey of women and healthcare providers regarding obstetrical, gynecological, and breast care for women with disabilities; a review and analysis of survey data by broadly…

This symposium served as a vehicle for clarifying and exploring conceptual and practical interconnections among the organization’s patient experience, patient engagement, and learning healthcare system initiatives. Project Lead: Daniel Davis…

Engagement Award Final Summary Report This community convening was intended to build and give voice to a new community of fully engaged stakeholders for the purpose of identifying, facilitating, and…

Engagement Award Final Summary Report This conference convened PCORI-funded research groups and multi-stakeholder groups to accelerate perinatal depression patient-centered outcomes research/comparative clinical effectiveness research in rural communities. Project Lead: Kelli…

Engagement Award Final Summary Report This project adopted the CEERIAS in-person approach from the PCORI-funded CEERIAS study, to the COVID-19 environment using virtual platforms such as video, radio, social media…

Engagement Award Final Summary Report This convening was intended to advance the body of knowledge on missed and delayed diagnosis of heart disease in women and increase interest in comparative…

This summit was held in August 2016 in Arlington, Virginia, and convened physicians, patients, the cancer support community, and researchers in meaningful dialogue to better understand how skin cancer patients…

This national summit held in October 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, convened patients who have experienced vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), AMD patient caregivers, vision advocacy leaders, vision researchers…