PCORI Cycle 2 2021 Funding Cycle Submission Instructions Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions Targeting

• In the Budget Justification Template, applicants must provide additional detail to explain the basis for the costs listed and describe how the travel is directly related to the proposed research project and necessary for achieving programmatic objectives. [...] Accordingly, the PCORI Board of Governors (Board) adopted the Process for Peer Review of Primary Research and Public Release of Research Findings.13 The detailed Peer-Review Budget must include costs related to the development and revision of the 13 See . [...] Provide sufficient detail to explain the basis for costs, the reason the costs are necessary to the project, and the reason for major cost variances. [...] For example, the application must state all the necessary assumptions, such as the outcome(s) on which the power calculations are based, the estimated difference in the effect size between study arms, the standard deviation of the effect size measure, the type I and II error rates, and any other assumptions. [...] Research Team and Environment Within the Research Team and Environment component (up to two pages), applicants must describe the research team’s capabilities to accomplish the goals of the proposed research project and the appropriateness of the research environment to conduct the study.