PCORI funding announcement: Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Patient-Centered OutcomesResearch InstituteFunding Announcement:

Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Published November 16, 2012

Purpose
Every day, patients and their caregivers face crucial healthcare decisions while lacking key information that
they need. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has addressed this lack of
information in its National Priorities and Research Agenda and has issued funding announcements requiring
a comparative clinical effectiveness approach that engages patients in collaboration with their clinicians. To
support the conduct of meaningful patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and to produce valid
findings, it is critical to continue developing stronger research methods in a number of areas....