The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved $97.3 million in new funding for 53 comparative effectiveness research (CER) studies aimed at providing patients and healthcare stakeholders with more information about the effectiveness of various healthcare options. PCORI also approved $93.5 million to build and expand the individual research data networks that will form PCORnet, a new national patient-centered clinical research network to facilitate CER.   Studies will incl...