The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, non-profit research organization, helps patients and providers make better-informed health decisions. PCORI seeks research that provides reliable, evidence-based information for patient health care choices, and its work focuses on four areas:
- Funding of Patient-Centered CER
- Engagement in Research
- Dissemination and Implementation
- Research Infrastructure
PCORI also offers a free online training for those who are new to health research and want to learn more about the research process.
See current PCORI funding opportunities.
PCORI National Priorities and Research Agenda
- Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options: Comparing effectiveness and safety of alternative prevention, diagnosis, and treatment options (i.e., which options work best for people with a specific health problem).
- Improving Healthcare Systems: Comparing health system–level approaches to access, patient self-care, health information technology, care for complex conditions, and workforce deployment.
- Communication and Dissemination Research: Comparing effectiveness research information, empowering people to ask for/use the information, and supporting shared decision making between patients/providers.
- Addressing Disparities: Identifying potential differences in prevention, diagnosis, or treatment effectiveness, or clinical outcomes across patient populations and healthcare needed for to achieve best outcomes.
- Accelerating Patient-Centered Outcomes Research and Methodological Research: Improving the nation’s capacity to conduct patient-centered outcomes research, by building data infrastructure, improving analytic methods, and training researchers, patients, and other stakeholders on this research.