Table 2.

Comparison of Community Health Needs Assessment Principles and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Insitute Goals

CHNA principles		PCORI goals
1)	Multi-sector collaborations that support shared ownership of all phases of community health improvement, including assessment, planning, investment, implementation, and evaluation.	1)	Focuses on research topics, questions, and outcomes most important to patients and those who care for them.
2)	Proactive, broad, and diverse community engagement to improve results.	2)	Works closely with a range of health care stakeholders— including patients, caregivers, scientists, clinicians, health systems, and insurers—to guide our research funding.
3)	A hospital's definition of community that encompasses both a significant enough area to allow for population-wide interventions and measurable results, and includes a targeted focus to address disparities among subpopulations.
4)	Maximum transparency to improve community engagement and accountability.	3)	Requires that patients be engaged in the research we fund, not as subjects but as partners who help determine what to study and how.
5)	Use of evidence-based interventions and encouragement of innovative practices with thorough evaluation.
6)	Evaluation to inform a continuous improvement process.
7)	Use of the highest quality data pooled from, and shared among, diverse public and private sources.

CHNA, Community Health Needs Assessment; PCORI, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.