Three reports were recently made available to inform researchers on how PCORnet can be used for patient-centered clinical effectiveness research on specific populations: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Telehealth utilization.
PCORnet is a large, distributed “network of networks” funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to improve the nation’s capacity to efficiently conduct definitive health research, particularly patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research. At the time of these query reports, PCORnet included 63 data contributing Clinical Research Networks (CRN) sites representing more than 13,000 clinical sites connected to more than 34 million unique patients receiving care across the U.S. each year, including care delivered at large academic health systems, hospitals, federally qualified health centers, and community clinics…
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