WASHINGTON, DC (November 20, 2018) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $54 million to fund 12 new studies comparing how well different treatments work in improving care for a range of conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.
"These newest studies will help to answer important individual and system-level treatment questions that matter to patients and those who care for them," said PCORI Executive Director Joe Selby, MD, MPH. "These?studies can help to fill major evidence gaps in our knowledge about these conditions and have the potential to change practice and improve patient care and outcomes."
The newly approved awards include:
Details of these and the other studies approved by the Board appear on PCORI's website . The new awards were approved pending a business and programmatic review by PCORI staff and issuance of formal award contracts.
The Board also approved several Dissemination and Implementation awards designed to move evidence from PCORI-funded research studies toward practical use in improving health care and health outcomes. These awards include implementing strategies to educate patients, clinicians and others about research results showing a lack of benefit of daily self-monitoring of blood glucose for people with non-insulin dependent type-2 diabetes; to help institutions optimize computerized topography (CT) radiation doses to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure; and to expand the use of community health workers for people with uncontrolled asthma.
Additionally, the Board approved two topics for future funding announcements: psychological and pharmacological treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in adults and treatments for age-related hearing loss.
With these latest awards, PCORI has invested $2.4 billion to fund more than 450 patient-centered CER studies and to support other projects designed to enhance CER methods and the infrastructure necessary to conduct CER rigorously and efficiently.
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About PCORI
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions. PCORI is committed to continually seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work. More information is available at http://www.pcori.org .