PCORI Board approves $70 million to support research and speed uptake of research results

WASHINGTON (November 19, 2019) — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $70 million to fund 21 studies and related projects designed to improve care for health conditions that impose high burdens on patients, their families and the healthcare system. Eighteen of the awards, totaling about $65 million, will fund studies…

Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Volume 4, Supplement 1 publishes

Beijing, November 19, 2019: Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA), in its role as the official journal of the Great Wall International Cardiology Conference (GW-ICC), has published selected abstracts from the 30th GW-ICC. The abstracts are now online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cscript/cvia/2019/00000004/a00101s1 Editor-in-Chief of CVIA Dr. C. Richard Conti, past president of the American College of Cardiology, is…

Study: Sepsis survivors require follow-up support

Survivors of sepsis–a life-threatening response to an infection–have expressed a need for advocacy and follow-up support, according to a study authored by professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, and published in Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing. “Sepsisis a devastating and life-threatening illness with serious…

BU and BMC find pediatric behavioral health care integration shows promise

Integrating behavioral health services into pediatric primary care in three Boston-area community health centers increased primary care visits by children with mental health diagnoses without raising Medicaid costs. In mid-2016, the Dimock Center in Roxbury, Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, and the Lowell Community Health Center began working with Boston University (BU) and Boston…