PCORI issues call for grant proposals
The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute began accepting proposals for up to $96 million in grants for research projects addressing four of its five broad priorities. PCORI said it will issue a call for proposals this fall and award $24 million in grants for research projects addressing the fifth priority. In May, the institute announced plans to award $120 million in grants after its board voted to formally adopt a revised set of research priorities and agenda (see BioCentury Extra, May 22).
The four priorities are: 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. The fifth priority is 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 to participate in the research. ...