The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $44.6 million to fund 12 studies comparing the best ways to treat a range of health conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.
Every year, the United States collectively spends about $3.5 trillion on low-value care, and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) aims to combat this by determining what kinds of care are the most effective and efficient for patients. CER is conducted through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and includes not only clinical care research, but also interventions that innovate healthcare delivery and financing, or that target public health in the community, including those intended to affect awareness, lifestyle, or environmental exposures.
Projects focus on obesity and diabetes prevention interventions
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $3.8 million to fund two projects designed to use shared decision making to disseminate and implement PCORI research findings and to simultaneously study ways of building shared decision making into clinical care. The Board also approved nominations for a new Chair and Co-Chair for PCORI’s Advisory Panel on Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science.
atient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Executive Director Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, has informed PCORI’s Board of Governors that he plans to retire at the end of 2019.
PCORI, authorized by Congress in 2010, is the nation’s first and only organization dedicated to funding research comparing two or more treatments or care approaches to determine which works best, for whom, given a patient’s particular circumstances and the outcomes they care about.
Today, more than ever, people are actively engaged in their health care decisions. While technology makes more information available to everyone, more is not always better, and misinformation can be particularly problematic in health care settings. Many other issues have stemmed from the imbalance of power between patient and physician. As access to patient records is changing, physicians are no longer the gatekeepers of medical knowledge. With access to all of this information and without proper knowledge, patients are at risk of great misunderstanding.
Projects focus on sleep apnea and community health worker interventions
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $2.8 million to fund two projects designed to speed the use of results of PCORI-funded studies into practice. The Board also approved a PCORnet funding announcement and adopted new methodology standards.
The newly approved awards, funded through PCORI’s Dissemination and Implementation initiative, are:
