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Fact Sheet
Minority Mental Health (Fact Sheet)
Members of racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States are less likely to have access to mental health services and less likely to receive needed care than the…
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Asthma Spotlight (Fact Sheet)
Find out more about our research on asthma, which affects around 25 million Americans, including approximately 6 million children.
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Rural Health (Fact Sheet)
Forty-six million Americans, or 15 percent of the population, live in rural areas and often have difficulty obtaining needed healthcare services. Remote location, coupled with economic, cultural, educational, and social…
Topic Brief
Topic Brief: Infantile Epilepsy
Epilepsy is more common in children than adults, with several epilepsy syndromes exclusive to the pediatric population. In this Topic Brief, the authors identified 401 relevant empirical studies reporting specifically…
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Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards (Fact Sheet)
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…
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Multiple Sclerosis Spotlight (Fact Sheet)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, unpredictable disease that damages the central nervous system and can affect nearly any function, but the most common symptoms are overwhelming fatigue, vision problems…
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Obesity Spotlight (Fact Sheet)
Obesity ranks behind only tobacco use as a leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Associated with a long list of diseases and health issues that impose an…
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Telehealth Spotlight (Fact Sheet)
As digital communication becomes more widespread, telehealth provides an option for people to better access and manage their health care. Our projects aim to answer the considerable questions about how…
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Better Research Through Engagement (Fact Sheet)
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.
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Targeted Funding Announcements (Fact Sheet)
Learn more about our research on specific, high-priority topics likely to have a substantial impact on practice and patient outcomes.
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Pragmatic Clinical Studies (Fact Sheet)
Pragmatic clinical studies aim to provide research results that better reflect everyday health care and a wider range of patients. They also seek to produce results that can apply to…
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Become a PCORI Peer Reviewer (Fact Sheet)
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…
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Improving the Science and Methods of PCOR (Fact Sheet)
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.
Health Research Literature Resource
Engagement in Health Research Literature Explorer Supplemental Methods Information
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Highlights of PCORI-Funded Research Results (Fact Sheet)
Since PCORI began funding research in 2012, a growing number of our funded research studies have produced important results that are being summarized in leading medical journals and presented at…
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Medicaid (Fact Sheet)
Medicaid—the state-federal partnership providing health coverage for low-income Americans, and the nation’s largest publicly sponsored health insurer—covers more than 65 million people. PCORI supports more than a dozen projects that…
Fact Sheet
Answering Our Nation's Call on COVID-19 (Handout)
In this unprecedented and challenging time, PCORI is gearing up to do all we can to address the threat COVID-19 poses to the nation’s health with a multipronged effort to…
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Cancer Spotlight (Fact Sheet)
There are more than 100 kinds of cancer, each with a distinct pathology and a unique blend of hereditary and environmental triggers. Many care options are available to people hoping…
