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Dissemination Strategies to Promote the Use of Health Care Evidence:

Annual Research Meeting, AcademyHealth June 3, 2019

Alicia Thomas, DrPH, MHS

• Sr. Program Officer, Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards

Ethan N Chiang, PhD, MS

• Sr. Program Officer, Dissemination & Implementation Program

About PCORI

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But what happens after these studies have produced results?

PCORI helps people make informed healthcare decisions, and improves healthcare delivery and outcomes, by producing and promoting high‐integrity, evidence‐based information that comes from research guided by patients, caregivers, and the broader healthcare community.

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• Charged with heightening awareness of the results of PCORI‐

funded research, and with advancing efforts to put these findings into practice to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes.

• Transparent reporting and public release of findings
• Increasing awareness of these findings among the “right people”
• Promoting systems for doctors, patients, and others to use the evidence to

help with real life decisions and improve care

PCORI’s Dissemination & Implementation Program Current (D&)I Awards Dissemination and Implementation Program Activities

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Evidence Assessment Audience Assessment

PCORI Research Findings

• PCORI Peer Review

Public Reporting Targeted Implementation Targeted Dissemination Broad Health System Implementation with AHRQ Better Health Outcomes Informed Decisions Changes in Behavior, Practice, Systems

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PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Program Funding Initiatives

Goal: To facilitate the uptake and integration of evidence from PCORI‐funded studies into real‐world practice, in the context of other relevant evidence

• Limited Competition: Implementation of PCORI‐Funded PCOR Results

Provides PCORI investigator teams the opportunity to propose next steps to put their findings into practice (up to $1M in direct costs per project)

• Implementation of Effective Shared Decision Making Approaches in Practice Settings

Promotes the implementation and systematic uptake of shared decision making in practice settings (up to $1.5M in total costs per project)

• Implementation of Findings from PCORI’s Major Research Investments

Provides a broad applicant pool the opportunity to propose strategies to put evidence from specific, high‐priority PCORI initiatives into practice, in the context of related evidence (up to $2.5M in total costs per project)

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Snapshot of Funded Dissemination and Implementation Awards

First awards: December 2016 Number funded: 25 Total PCORI investment: $29M Project budgets: $500K to $2.2M Implementation sites: in 32 states

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Current (D&)I Awards Dissemination and Implementation Program Activities

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Evidence Assessment Audience Assessment

PCORI Research Findings

• PCORI Peer Review

Public Reporting Targeted Implementation Targeted Dissemination Broad Health System Implementation with AHRQ Better Health Outcomes Informed Decisions Changes in Behavior, Practice, Systems

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Dissemination Support Channels: The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program

Overall Goals of the Engagement Award Program:

• To fund projects to equip patients and other stakeholders to

engage as meaningful partners in PCOR/CER, from topic selection to design and conduct of research and on to dissemination and implementation of results

• Support organizations with constituents who view them as

trusted sources of health information to conduct projects to lay the groundwork for disseminating and implementing research results or products derived from PCORI or related studies

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Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative Funding

• Funding for projects designed by organizations and communities with

established relationships with end users to actively disseminate findings from PCORI‐funded studies

• Dissemination strategies may be used together—in combination or in

sequence—to:

• Increase the reach of evidence
• Increase people’s motivation to use and apply evidence
• Increase people’s ability to use and apply evidence
• Project activities may include developing, demonstrating, and

evaluating the processes/pathways/tools necessary to incorporate PCOR/CER results into decision‐making settings.

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PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Program Funding Initiatives

• Since the Engagement Award Program began in 2015, we have awarded

approximately $11M to support 42 Dissemination Awards

• In 2018, the Program began to emphasize its interest in supporting dissemination

and implementation capacity building projects as well as conferences seeking to actively disseminate PCORI‐funded research findings

• We have awarded (included in total above):
• 36 Engagement Award Projects focused on Dissemination
• 6 Engagement Award Conferences focused on Dissemination
• Anticipate many more!

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Meet The Panel:

Examples of PCORI-Funded Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative Projects Project Leads and Patient/Stakeholder Partners