The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) aims to fund projects that enhance active involvement from patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders in patient-centered outcomes research and comparative clinical effectiveness research. This initiative is in place to ensure that the healthcare community and its processes are inclusive, patient-focused, and aimed at improving healthcare delivery and outcomes.
The grant program focuses on funding comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) to provide actionable information that helps patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders make informed healthcare decisions. This initiative particularly values transparency, rigorous processes, and patient engagement. It targets improving healthcare delivery and outcomes through high-integrity, evidence-based research. The program encourages Letters of Intent (LOIs) initially, with full proposals by invitation, reflecting its commitment to funding research that aligns well with program goals and priorities, including new focuses on intellectual and developmental disabilities and maternal morbidity and mortality.