Building Data Capacity to Study Economic Outcomes for PCOR

This special issue was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and carried out under the leadership of Scott Smith and Emily Evans and with guidance from Benjamin Sommers and Nancy De Lew. Justin Timbie, Kerry Reynolds, Emily Hoch, and Mallika Bhandarkar from the RAND Corporation also provided support under contract HHSP233201500038I/HHSP23337008T.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and RAND thank all members of the Technical Expert Panel who supported the call for abstracts for this special issue and codesigned and facilitated a symposium held on December 5, 2022 to discuss preliminary versions of these papers and their implications for building data capacity for PCOR research with economic outcomes. Panel members included Naomi Aronson (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association), Partha Bhattacharyya (National Institute on Aging), Joel Cohen (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), Jennifer DeVoe (Oregon Health and Science University), Scott Grosse (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Erin Holve (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute), David Meltzer (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Department of Economics, and Department of Medicine), Peter Neumann (Tufts Medical Center), Lisa Simpson (AcademyHealth), and K. Robin Yabroff (American Cancer Society). We also thank the Medical Care Editorial team who assisted and contributed to this special issue, including Karen Doyle (Managing Editor), Jordan Schilling (Senior Publisher), and Steven D. Pizer, PhD, Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management at Boston University School of Public Health (Deputy Editor).

Guest Editors

Scott R. Smith, PhD

Director of the Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes

Office of Health Policy

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

[email protected]

Emily L. Evans, PhD

Health Science Analyst

Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes

Office of Health Policy

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation