PCORI awards $55M in new projects
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved $54.8 million in funding to support 33 new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects focusing on conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic pain and cancer.
The studies will compare different approaches to delivering care and improving patients’ access to care, and several projects will focus on specific patient populations such as racial and ethnic minorities and low-income individuals.
The approved studies are based at institutions and organizations in 18 states and were selected from 325 applications. With this latest round of awards, PCORI has approved nearly $549 million in support of a total of 313 research projects and initiatives since it began funding research in 2012. PCORI expects to award roughly $1 billion in research support over the two-year period from 2014 through 2015.
Details about the newly approved studies are available at www.pcori.org/pfaawards.
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