The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors recently amended its January 2012 draft research agenda in response to public comments. The board found 15 major themes that emerged from 474 public comments. The purpose of the National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda is to guide funding for comparative clinical effectiveness research. The agenda amendments address PCORI's focus on patient engagement and transparency, patients with multiple chronic conditions, patients with rare diseases, improvement of health delivery systems, and health literacy. The final version of the agenda and the national research priorities...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) proposed national priorities for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness in their first version of PCORI’s Research Agenda. PCORI expects to learn and update this as we move forward. We are not specifying or prioritizing any particular condition or disease for research, although we may do so in the future. Consistent with the criteria outlined in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), PCORI’s first research agenda looks at: -Comparisons of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options...

A new Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Board, established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is seeking public input as to what kinds of research should be performed. The ACA helped establish the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which will provide information to consumers to help guide their treatment decisions. PCORI is an independent body, charged with overseeing CER guidelines in the U.S. For more information on CER, click here.