Evidence Synthesis Reports and Interactive Visualizations
When patients, clinicians, or other healthcare stakeholders raise a question that doesn’t already have an evidence-based answer, sometimes new research is needed to answer it. But in other cases, a careful look at results from research studies already completed can more quickly provide findings that can be used to make informed choices. PCORI’s Evidence Synthesis Initiative takes that approach.
Systematic Reviews
Systematic Reviews comprehensively evaluate the existing evidence on a research question using a set of clearly specified, rigorous, reproducible and transparent methods.
Rapid Reviews
A rapid review is an approach that accelerates and streamlines evidence synthesis methods to meet requirements of end users, producing rigorous and transparent evidence.
Evidence Maps and Evidence Visualizations
These evidence synthesis products visually display evidence gaps or study characteristics, and sometimes summarize study quality or synthesized evidence from multiple studies. They also provide an overview of the state of the evidence and inform research priorities.
Topic Briefs
Topic briefs identify and categorize existing literature on a healthcare issue or an issue related to conducting comparative effectiveness research.
Scoping Reviews
Scoping reviews summarize the major concepts and characteristics of the literature on a topic to identify and describe important evidence gaps.
Other Secondary Data Reuse Opportunities
There are other approaches that can be helpful in studies with a diverse group of people and a wide range in individual responses to an intervention.
What's Happening at PCORI?
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute sends weekly emails about opportunities to apply for funding, newly funded research studies and engagement projects, results of our funded research, webinars, and other new information posted on our site.
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