ACCP has provided organizational comments to the National Priorities proposed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) that will inform PCORI’s future research agenda. PCORI has framed the proposed National Priorities as long-term goals for health, with progress to be achieved through PCORI’s Research Agenda (e.g., funding of clinical effectiveness research [CER]) and other strategies (e.g., stakeholder engagement, dissemination and implementation, and health communication).
The proposed National Priorities for Health are broad, ambitious goals that include CER focused on outcomes important to patients. They reflect stakeholder guidance and encompass PCORI’s congressional mandate. The National Priorities have been developed in consultation with numerous stakeholder groups, advisers, and experts and build on PCORI’s experience in its first decade. The priorities are designed to be mutually reinforcing, with complementary elements to create synergistic opportunities for progress.
PCORI’s Proposed National Priorities for Health
- Increase Evidence for Existing Interventions and Emerging Innovations in Health
Goal: Strengthen and expand ongoing comparative clinical effectiveness research focused on both existing interventions and emerging innovations to improve health care practice, health outcomes, and health equity.
- Enhance Infrastructure to Accelerate Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Goal: Enhance the infrastructure that facilitates patient-centered outcomes research to drive lasting improvements in health and transformation of both the research enterprise and care delivery.
- Advance the Science of Dissemination, Implementation, and Health Communication
Goal: Advance the scientific evidence for and the practice of dissemination, implementation, and health communication to accelerate the movement of comparative clinical effectiveness research results into practice.
- Achieve Health Equity
Goal: Expand stakeholder engagement, research, and dissemination approaches that lead to continued progress toward achieving health equity in the United States.
- Accelerate Progress Toward an Integrated Learning Health System
Goal: Foster actionable, timely, place-based, and transformative improvements in patient-centered experiences, care provision, and ultimately improved health outcomes through collaborative, multisectoral research to support a health system that serves the needs and preferences of individuals.
The feedback and input gathered during this public comment period will be considered in finalizing the National Priorities for Health that serve as the foundation for updating PCORI’s Research Agenda, which will also be presented for public comment. When available, ACCP looks forward to the opportunity to comment on PCORI’s updated Research Agenda as well.
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