The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Resource Guide

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.