The PATIENTS Program at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) is collaborating with the Southwest Partnership (SWP) to bring the voices of Baltimore City residents into the discussion about health care research and patient outcomes.
Through a two-year, $250,000 funding award from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the collaboration is working with communities in Southwest Baltimore to take part in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER). The project is titled COmmunity Based Development of CollaboRatIVE and Sustainable PartNerships in PCOR/CER (CO-DRIVEN).