Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRN): Improving Infrastructure for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)

 Additional Information:
http://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/funding-announcements/clinical-data-research-networks-cdrn-improving-infrastructure-for-conducting-patient-centered-outcomes-research-pcor/


Description:
The goal of PCORI’s National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network Program is to improve the nation’s capacity to conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER) efficiently, by creating a large, highly representative electronic data infrastructure for conducting clinical outcomes research. Specifically, this program will promote a more comprehensive, complete, longitudinal data infrastructure; broader participation of patients, clinicians, health systems, and payers in the research proccess; and improvements in analytic methods for both observational and experimental CER. Through this funding announcement, PCORI seeks to support new or existing Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRN) that will develop the capacity to conduct randomized comparative effectiveness studies using data from clinical practice in a large, defined population.
 Letter of Intent: June 19, 2013