title: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: the intersection of science and health care.
abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a nonprofit corporation that is neither an agency nor an establishment of the U.S. government. PCORI's mission is to support the production of well-validated scientific evidence to assist the nation in making informed decisions about a broad range of health care-related issues. In this Commentary, the directors of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health discuss PCORI's opportunities to contribute to a robust portfolio of scientific inquiry that builds on their agencies' investment in comparative effectiveness research.
authors.affiliation: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clancy
authors.forename: Francis S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000191:economics; D057186:Comparative Effectiveness Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018024:Peer Review, Health Care; D014481:United States