Authors: National Pharmaceutical Council

Publication: September 2010

Size: 52 pages (PDF)

A key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health reform legislation signed into law in March 2010, establishes the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a private, non-profit corporation empowered to develop and fund comparative effectiveness research (CER). Overseeing and managing the many important functions of this unique institute will be a board of governors drawn from multiple and varied stakeholder organizations.

To foster a better understanding of the role of the PCORI Board of Governors and of issues related to CER, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Resource Guide provides specifics concerning PCORI’s implementation, biographies of the new PCORI Board members, and a history of CER in the United States, as well as other resources.

PCORI Related Materials

• Comparative Effectiveness Research 
• Evidence-Based Medicine  
• Demystifying Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Case Study Learning Guide 
• Framing the Debate/Untangling the Potential Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on Innovation 
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE): How Does it Work and What Are the Implications for the U.S.? (2008) 
• The Good ReseArch for Comparative Effectiveness (GRACE) principles