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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) at AHRQ

Areas of Interest

The PCOR Cycle

The PCOR Cycle

Understanding how PCOR improves delivery of care

Potential of PCOR

Potential of PCOR

PCOR translates evidence into practice for meaningful patient outcomes.

Library of PCOR Resources

Library of PCOR Resources

Find out how to search for PCOR studies and findings.

AHRQ's Dissemination and Implementation Initiative

AHRQ’s D and I Initiative

AHRQ seeks nominations of promising PCOR findings with the potential to improve patient health outcomes. Nominate a PCOR finding.

 
 
PCOR compares the impact of two or more preventive, diagnostic, treatment, or health care delivery approaches on health outcomes, including those that are meaningful to patients.
Congress instructed AHRQ to invest in four specific activities in two areas that build upon AHRQ’s core mission and experience: Dissemination and Training.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund projects for training and career development and dissemination and implementation.
AHRQ will prioritize and fund projects to widely disseminate the most promising findings and implement them in clinical practice.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides this comprehensive Web library of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) resources to highlight the existing collection of PCOR projects conducted by public, private, nonprofit, and academic sources. The library of resources includes PCOR findings and evidence-based tools that have appeared in the published literature as well as studies and projects that are in progress.