Conference will establish patient-centered research agenda for cerebral palsy

The Cerebral Palsy Research Network (CPRN) and its partner, CP NOW Foundation, received exciting news that their joint grant application to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), requesting $50,000 to host a workshop to bring together people with CP, parents/caregivers, and researchers from all over the country, was approved for funding!

The planned meeting is an important step to allow the organizations to discuss research priorities in depth and set the goal for the future direction for CP research that will best benefit the CP community from multiple perspectives.

The conference grant supports four activities to accomplish this goal:

1. Conduct a series of online webinars to educate patients, caregivers and clinicians about patient registries, clinical trial design and comparative effectiveness research, and quality networks;
2. Collectively build and distribute a survey for the broader patient and provider community to provide input into the research priorities for CP;
3. Convene a meeting to synthesize the survey data, set a comparative effectiveness research (CER) and quality agenda and establish an engaged team of patients, clinicians and stakeholders;
4. Publish a whitepaper outlining the broader community’s shared clinical comparative research and quality agenda for cerebral palsy.

The differentiator that will hopefully set this apart from other CP research efforts is that it will include the voices and perspectives of ALL members of the CP community: people with cerebral palsy, parents, caregivers, clinicians and researchers. This collaborative approach will allow for a meaningful and targeted research agenda to improve outcomes for people with CP.

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