Featured In This Issue
- Essentia Health, Duluth, MN, is one of sixteen new sites expanding the reach of PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks (CRNs). PCORnet users can now tap into Essentia Health's diverse population of rural, older adults.
- Available Now! Read the PCORnet Maternal Morbidity & Mortality (MMM) Query Report to Learn about Research Opportunities in MMM
- In Case You Missed It: PCORnet Leaders Highlight the Role of Engagement and Collaboration in Transformative Research at ARM 2024
- Can Repurposed Drugs Speed Alzheimer’s Solutions? Researchers are Using PCORnet to Find Out
Call For Abstracts: PCORI is accepting abstracts for commentaries, empirical papers, case studies, and methodological papers, focused on uses of PCORnet®. Learn more!
Funding Opportunities: Share the Latest Funding Announcements with Your Network of Researchers
Research Results: New Published Insights from Studies Using PCORnet
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Essentia Health, Duluth, MN, is one of sixteen new sites expanding the reach of PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks (CRNs). PCORnet users can now tap into Essentia Health's population of rural, older adults.
Sixteen new sites are expanding the reach of the eight PCORnet® CRNs, and we’re spotlighting how each addition is poised to support national-scale patient-centered CER. This issue, we feature Essentia Health in Duluth, MN, which includes a population of rural, older individuals now available for research studies powered by PCORnet®.
Available Now! Read the PCORnet Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Public Query Report
A new query report of the PCORnet® CRNs identified demographic characteristics of more than 1.5 million newborn deliveries. The query included demographic characteristics of people experiencing complications and death including maternal race, ethnicity, and severe maternal morbidity and detailed specific unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery as well as outcomes that occurred up to 30 days postpartum. This report can help researchers better understand the data available through PCORnet® CRNs.
In Case You Missed It: PCORnet Leaders Highlight Transformative Research at ARM 2024
The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) 2024 was a dynamic platform to showcase the standout features of PCORnet and how this multi-stakeholder ecosystem has boosted researchers' ability to conduct national-scale CER. In an engaging panel session, "Multi-Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: What We’ve Learned from Patient-Centered Research Using PCORnet," panelists explored real-world examples that illuminate how research teams are using PCORnet to accelerate patient-centered insights, ultimately enhancing clinical care.
Can Repurposed Drugs Speed Alzheimer’s Solutions? Researchers are Using PCORnet to Find Out
Using data from sites in two PCORnet® CRNs, a PCORnet® Study team is exploring whether drug repurposing can be used to better understand and treat Alzheimer’s disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
PCORI is accepting abstracts for commentaries, empirical papers, case studies, and methodological papers, focused on uses of PCORnet®. Find details about the special issue.
This special issue will highlight case studies and empirical findings that illustrate the benefits and value of using PCORnet and the lessons learned from experiences across the network using PCORnet to conduct patient-centered CER and other health research. The special issue also will outline future opportunities to use PCORnet to accelerate progress towards an integrated learning health system, and advance health outcomes.
Abstracts must be submitted by October 7, 2024, at 5:00 pm ET to [email protected]. Authors will be notified at the end of October if they are invited to submit a full manuscript for the special issue of the journal. A complete draft manuscript will be required by December 10, 2024, to share with the Technical Expert Panel for feedback. The final manuscript submission date is January 30, 2025. For any questions about the call for abstracts contact [email protected].
Please share new funding announcements with your network of researchers.
PCORI Releases Funding Announcement for Broad Pragmatic Studies
PCORI has released a Category 3 Broad Pragmatic Studies (BPS) funding announcement for researchers interested in using PCORnet for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). This BPS Category 3 funding opportunity supports PCORnet® Studies with direct costs up to $12 million. PCORnet® Studies utilize the Network to conduct observational studies and/or pragmatic trials that are national in scale. Category 3 PCORnet® Studies must include two or more PCORnet CRNs and share study progress, performance metrics, and best practices with the Network to promote continuous learning and improvement. PCORnet® Studies will leverage the PCORnet® Common Data Model as appropriate.
- PFA Opens
Sept. 4, 2024 - Applicant Town Hall
Sept. 19, 2024; 11:30 am (ET) - Letter of Intent (LOI) Deadline
Oct. 1, 2024, at 5 pm (ET)
More PCORI funding announcements to share with your colleagues include:
PCORI Phased Large Research Funding: This upcoming PFA invites applications for high-quality patient-centered CER projects that will address critical decisions faced by patients, families, caregivers, clinicians, and the health and healthcare community and for which there is insufficient evidence. This funding announcement anticipates that proposed research projects will require two phases of funding.
- PFA Opens
Sept. 4, 2024 - Applicant Town Hall
Sept. 6, 2024, 11:30 am (ET) - Letter of Intent (LOI) Deadline
Oct. 1, 2024, at 5 pm (ET)
PCORI Funding for Research that Improves CER Methods: Through this upcoming PFA PCORI aims to fund studies that address high-priority methodological gaps in patient-centered CER.
- PFA Opens
Sept. 4, 2024 - Applicant Town Hall
View recorded webinar/slides - Letter of Intent (LOI) Deadline
Oct. 1, 2024, at 5 pm (ET)
Limited Competition PCORI Funding Announcement: Implementation Awards: Through this upcoming PFA, PCORI aims to move evidence developed with PCORI-funded research toward practical use in improving health care and health outcomes.
- PFA Opens
Sept. 4, 2024 - Letter of Intent (LOI) Deadline
Oct. 1, 2024, at 5 pm (ET)
The Latest Published Insights from Studies Using PCORnet
Check out the most recent publications from study teams using the PCORnet infrastructure.
- Kidney and Cardiovascular Effectiveness of SGLT2 Inhibitors Compared with GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
- Association between acquiring SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: RECOVER electronic health record cohort analysis
- Preventive Service Usage and New Chronic Disease Diagnoses: Using PCORnet Data to Identify Emerging Trends, United States, 2018–2022
Are you interested in learning what access to insights from encounters with more than 30 million people across the U.S. can offer your study? Reach out through the PCORnet® Front Door, the access point for all PCORnet resources.
PCORnet® is intended to improve the nation’s capacity to efficiently conduct patient-centered health research, particularly comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), by providing a large, highly representative network of health data, research expertise, and patient insights. PCORnet® has been developed with funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI®).