Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Improving Diabetes Care Through Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) works with stakeholders across the healthcare community to generate and disseminate evidence that will help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions. PCORI funds comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), studies that compare two or more treatments or care approaches to see which work best, for whom, to improve outcomes patients care about. PCORI focuses on the conditions that impose the highest burdens on individuals, their families, and the healthcare system, including diabetes. PCORI takes a unique approach to CER: “research done differently.” PCORI engages patients and other stakeholders from selecting research topics to study and projects to fund through disseminating study results. The goal is to make it more likely that the results of PCORI’s funded studies will be useful, relevant, and more likely to be taken up in practice.