A new Population Insights Report provides researchers and the public with an enhanced understanding of patients who received care within healthcare settings across sites participating in PCORnet®.
The report, Characteristics of the Patient Population Receiving Health Care Services Across Clinical Research Networks Participating in PCORnet®, can help researchers understand the capability of PCORnet data resources to answer research questions and recruit patients for future research powered by PCORnet. Highlights from the report include demographic, geographic, and care setting insights from the PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks (CRNs).
The new report demonstrates how the infrastructure offers access to a broad range of patient populations and standardized data, streamlining the research process while maintaining rigorous privacy protections. Access to PCORnet data resources helps researchers design and implement large-scale, innovative, patient-centered health research.
A Detailed Look at Patient Demographics
The Population Insights Report offers a comprehensive overview of the demographics of nearly 47 million patients who had at least one healthcare encounter at a site participating in PCORnet between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. The patient population represented in the data includes a wide range of ages, races, and ethnicities for males and females.
The data in the report represent information recorded in electronic health records from patients across all 50 U.S. states. This means researchers can design projects and include groups in their studies that are representative of different communities and varying levels of urbanization. The report also includes healthcare visits that took place at a variety of care settings, including:
- Ambulatory Visits
- Emergency Department Visits
- Emergency Department to Inpatient Stays
- Inpatient Hospital Stays
- Non-Acute Institutional Stays
- Observation Stays
- Telehealth Visits
In addition to the new report, other topic-specific reports are also available that characterize the extensive, real-world patient data available through PCORnet data resources, including:
- Gene Therapy
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- Mental and Behavioral Health
- Pediatric Population
- Telehealth
- Women’s Health
Highlights and illustrations from the new Population Insights Report are available to view on the Population Insights webpage.
Interested in conducting national-scale research? PCORnet may be used by all interested investigators, regardless of affiliation or source of funding. Contact the PCORnet® Front Door to get started.