Funders

These funding agencies support the use of core outcomes.

UK: National Insitute for Health Research

The HTA Stage 1 Guidance Notes  for applicants submitting Stage 1 HTA applications states: “Where established Core Outcomes exist they should be included amongst the list of outcomes unless there is good reason to do otherwise. Please see The COMET Initiative website at www.comet-initiative.org to identify whether Core Outcomes have been established.”

The NIHR HTA recently released a Commissioning Brief (HTA 18/51) for research on extended duration haemodialysis. The outcomes specified include the SONG-HD core outcome set!

Belgium: Healthcare Knowledge Centre

The resources for investigators includes a reference to the COMET Initiative.

Germany: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 

The preparation instructions in the Clinical Trials Programme Proposal requires applicants to address whether “standardized/generally agreed core outcome sets included in the endpoints chosen? If not, please justify.”

Europe: European Commission 

The Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) funding call for Comparing the effectiveness of existing healthcare interventions in the adult population ID: SC1-PM-10-2017 stipulated that: “Agreed core outcome sets (COS) should be used as endpoints in conditions where they already exist, in other cases efforts should be made to agree on such COS.”