Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute funding award

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced funding awards totaling $208 million to support 17 new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies. In addition, they awarded $2 million for a project intended to accelerate the adoption of strategies shown in a PCORI-funded study to improve mental health care for people who are receiving dialysis.

Dr. Rajnish Mehrotra, professor and head of nephrology has been awarded $2.1 million for an implementation project to make evidence-based treatments for depression available to patients within the dialysis unit using the strategy used in the PCORI-funded ASCEND trial.