The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): Information for academic nursing

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) national priorities for research and initial research agenda.

THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT of 2010 created the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to fund and promote comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) that will “assist patients, clinicians, purchasers, and policymakers in making informed health decisions by advancing the quality and relevance of evidence concerning the manner in which diseases, disorders,...

The PCORI perspective on patient-centered outcomes research.

The Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute’s Role in Advancing Methods for Patient-centered Outcomes Research

Currently, there is wide-spread recognition that much of health care is insufficiently grounded in evidence as to what works for whom under what circumstances. An important reason for this is that research efforts often do not compare alternative options of health care nor are they sufficiently focused on outcomes that matter to patients. In addition, the methods to conduct research designed to...

Engaging patients and stakeholders in research proposal review: the patient-centered outcomes research institute.

The inaugural round of merit review for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) in November 2012 included patients and other stakeholders, as well as scientists. This article examines relationships among scores of the 3 reviewer types, changes in scoring after in-person discussion, and the effect of inclusion of patient and stakeholder reviewers on the review process. In the fi...

Patient-centered endpoints for perioperative outcomes research.

T trite but enduring cliché can be traced back to the late 19th century. The fact that it survived to this day indicates that perceptions of “success” can still differ widely between doctors and patients. For example, although the “1-yr graft patency” after coronary artery bypass surgery may be a highly meaningful outcome for a cardiac surgeon, it could have been achieved without any meaningful...