The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute on Dec. 17 approved 82 new funding awards totaling $191 million. Of that amount, $97.3 million will support 53 comparative effectiveness research projects in 23 states, the District of Columbia and Quebec, and $93.5 million will support 29 clinical research data networks that together form PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. Sixteen of the CER projects will focus on health disparities ($37.8 million); 12 will assess prevention, diagnosis and treatment options ($22.4 million); 11 aim to accelerate outcomes and methodological research ($10.1 million); nine will focus on improving health care systems ($17.6 million); and five will research communication and dissemination approaches, including a project at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas to develop and test a decision aid for ventricular assist device placement.
Since it began funding comparative effectiveness research in 2012, PCORI has awarded $464.4 million to a total of 279 projects,...
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