PCORI to award $120 million

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute announced plans to award $120 million in grants this year after its board voted on Monday to formally adopt a revised set of research priorities and agenda. The institute said $96 million will go toward projects addressing four of its five broad priorities: comparing alternative prevention, diagnosis, and treatment options; improving healthcare systems; comparing communication approaches to providing comparative effectiveness research information; and addressing potential differences in prevention, diagnosis or treatment effectiveness, or preferred clinical outcomes across patient populations. Letters of intent are due by June 15, while applications are due by July 31. ...