PCORnet® Front Door

The PCORnet® Front Door team can connect you with collaborators across PCORnet. You can seek sites for funded studies, partners to co-design research leveraging PCORnet, or find people with specific expertise.

• The PCORnet® Front Door team shares your request by hosting an informational webinar to the network
• The PCORnet® Front Door team shares your study information with each PCORnet® Clinical Research Network so they can assess if they are interested in participating and have the population or data you need
• The PCORnet® Front Door team also helps facilitate communication between the requestor and potential sites

The PCORnet® Front Door team can advise you on site scope of work and budget parameters, however the requestor will generally execute any study-specific agreements with the sites that participate.

Data Network Requests generally provide preliminary data to help design proposals or assess study feasibility.

• The PCORnet® Front Door team contacts you to schedule a consultation and understand your data needs
• If appropriate, the PCORnet® Front Door team will partner to develop your query for the PCORnet® Common Data Model, and securely distribute the query to PCORnet® Network Partners. PCORnet® Network Partners will choose whether or not to execute the query and will send back results.
• Once data are returned, the PCORnet® Front Door team will meet with you to review your data report and answer any questions

Queries can take from weeks to months depending on the complexity of the request, availability of the requestor to address questions, and number of other queries in the queue. Simple Data Network Requests are generally completed without charge. More complex queries, including those as part of research projects are supported by those research funds.

Studies designated as PCORnet® Studies generally are funded projects that:

• Include two or more networks
• Demonstrate how participants and patients are engaged throughout the project lifecycle
• Are committed to broad dissemination of findings, including through return of results to participants
• Agree to share study progress, performance metrics, and best practices with the network regularly
• Leverage the PCORnet® Common Data Model

To learn more, check out our PCORnet® Studies Fact Sheet. Contact the PCORnet® Front Door to apply for PCORnet study designation.