The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute — Promoting Better Information, Decisions, and Health

Within the 2000 pages of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a short section authorizing the creation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) — a research organization dedicated to the support and promotion of comparative clinical effectiveness research. The establishment of PCORI represents the culmination of long-standing interest in comparative effectiveness research, a lengthy legislative gestation, and compromise among varied congressional perspectives and priorities. 1 PCORI responds to a widespread concern that, in many cases, patients and their health care providers, families, and caregivers do not have the information they need to make choices aligned with . . .