women’s health

A New PCORnet® Population Insights Report Highlights the Capacity of the Network to Support Meaningful, Patient-Centered Research on Women’s Health

Posted on by Jodi Snare

Each year, PCORnet® connects researchers with health data from more than 47 million people nationwide through eight PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks, enabling large-scale, innovative, patient-centered health research. The infrastructure of PCORnet offers access to a broad range of patient populations and standardized data, streamlining the research process while maintaining rigorous privacy protections. A new PCORnet® Population Insights Report on women receiving health care services at clinical sites across PCORnet is now available, offering insights into the capacity of the network to support meaningful research focused on women’s health.

The report offers a comprehensive overview of the demographics and health conditions of more than 35 million women who received healthcare services at 71 sites participating in PCORnet between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023. Patients were included in the report if they were routinely seeking care for given diagnoses.

This Population Insights Report is a crucial resource for researchers, enabling them to assess how PCORnet resources can be used to conduct national-scale, patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research to improve women’s health. Three tables in the report highlight different characteristics of women receiving health care services across PCORnet:

  • Demographics
  • Procedures and medication use
  • Co-occurring and additional health conditions, such as
    • Alzheimer’s Disease or Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias
    • Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
    • Autoimmune Diseases
    • Breast Cancer
    • Depression and Mood Disorders
    • Endometriosis
    • Hypothyroidism
    • Menopause
    • Osteoporosis
    • Uterine Cancer

This report highlights the potential for researchers to use the power of PCORnet® to conduct patient-centered studies on a wide range of conditions that affect women’s health and to deliver fast, trustworthy answers that advance health outcomes.

Population Insights Reports are also available for other areas of research including gene therapy, maternal morbidity and mortality, telehealth, intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental and behavioral health, and the pediatric population across PCORnet. Most offer the largest national query of real-world data on health conditions, populations, or service utilization. Read them all.

Interested in conducting national-scale research in one of the areas highlighted in the Population Insights Report? PCORnet may be used by all interested investigators, regardless of affiliation or source of funding. Contact the PCORnet® Front Door to get started.