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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent, nonprofit organization that funds research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions. PCORI is committed to continually seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work.
Addressing Barriers to Engaging Patients and Caregivers Experiencing Critical Illness to Build Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is collaborating with Vanderbilt University School of Nursing on a project that will use group concept mapping to gather input from patients, family members, clinicians, researchers, and others to identify strategies that can be used for overcoming barriers to engaging patients and family members in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) in the ICU and post-ICU settings.
Project Colead: SCCM Past President Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAANP, FNAP, MCCM
Project Colead: Marianna LaNoue, PhD
SCCM Staff Partner: Adair Andrews, RN, MATD; Susan Lacey, RN, PhD, CNI, FAAN
Funding
This project was funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (EACB-26623)
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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research - Intensive Care Unit (PCOR-ICU)
The PCOR-ICU Collaborative: Improving Care for Critically Ill Patients and Families Through Research Dissemination and Implementation brought together ICU teams to implement patient- and family-centered care initiatives. The teams participated in a 10-month collaborative to implement a patient and family engagement initiative focusing on one of the following initiatives:
Project Leads: Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD, RN-CS, FAAN, FCCM, and Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD, FCCM
Funding
This program was funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (2626-SCCM).