Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Our Work With PCORI
The National Alliance has been working with PCORI since 2016. PCORI is an independent, nonprofit research organization that seeks to empower patients and others with actionable information about their health and healthcare choices. Through the work we do with PCORI, the National Alliance shares evidence-based research relevant to employers and other plan sponsors to support informed decision-making for employees and their families. In addition, the National Alliance provides input into a wide range of PCORI’s activities, representing the needs of purchasers, from refining and prioritizing research questions for potential funding to offering feedback on ways to engage patients and employers as partners in research to the dissemination and uptake of evidence.
Advancing Research and Building Awareness through a Multi-faceted Approach
- Spreading Awareness through an award from PCORI’s Engagement in Research program, the National Alliance lays the groundwork for disseminating PCORI-funded research findings to spread awareness and increase knowledge about those findings.
- Interactive Learning including webinars that bring together National Alliance coalition and healthcare industry leaders, principal investigators, and others to fulfill commitments funded through PCORI’s Engagement Awards and ensure a broad audience has access to trending research.
- National Reach grows when National Alliance leaders convene meetings with advisors, reporting on findings, sharing expertise, and exploring pathways to create more meaningful patient engagement, through collaboration with PCORI.
A Shared Vision With PCORI
The National Alliance has been working with PCORI since 2016, sharing the belief that empowering patients and others with actionable information will allow them to make better informed health and healthcare decisions.
Recent National Alliance Engagement with PCORI (timeline)
Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Council – Enhancing broad dissemination
Mental health access, measurement-based care, and workplace support
Healthcare Innovator Incubator Program - Vendor discussions to advance patient outcomes
Optimizing patient outcomes across stakeholders
Develop employer only advisory council to improve employer awareness and uptake
Focus on dissemination of COVID information
Employer benefit and workforce directions due to COVID-19
Enhancing the dissemination process to improve employer engagement
Enhancing employer engagement in the PCORI research agenda
Develop a process to provide patient-centered findings to employers
Featured Resources
Supporting Women’s Health in the Workplace: Helping Women with Breast Cancer Choose Between Surgical Treatment Options
As women with early-stage breast cancer choose between treatment options, pictorial conversation aids improve shared decision-making and other patient-reported outcomes.
Supporting Women’s Health in the Workplace: New Approaches to Urinary Incontinence (UI) Boost Wellbeing, Productivity, and Sense of Belonging
One in four women over age 18 lives with some form of urinary incontinence. These materials offer insights into simple workplace accommodations and highly successful non-surgical treatments for UI, enabling employers to boost the wellbeing of women at work.
How Patient- and Family-Centered Hospital Communications Reduce Medical Errors
A Relational Roadmap Toward Whole Person Health
Behavioral Health Vendor Engagement Template
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How Patient- and Family-Centered Hospital Communications Reduce Medical Errors
PCORI: Improving Outcomes Important to Patients
PCORI funds patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies and related projects to address questions important to patients, caregivers, clinicians and others within the broader healthcare community. They also fund awards to promote engagement in research, dissemination and implementation of research findings, methodology research and the development of research infrastructure.
PCORI’s work is anchored by its National Priorities for Health, goals that inform funding opportunities. Find a list of all open funding announcements, as well as upcoming and past opportunities, on PCORI’s website.
Funding Opportunities
What PCORI Funds
PCORI funds patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) and related projects that address health issues facing people in the United States. By highlighting comparisons and outcomes that matter, PCORI works to provide access to useful, trustworthy evidence people need to make informed health and healthcare decisions.
The Funding Opportunities section of PCORI’s website lists all open funding announcements, as well as upcoming and past opportunities.