The U.S. government has jump-started an unprecedented effort to better understand what works and what doesn't in health care. The effort, called comparative effectiveness research, is designed to ...

Steven D. Pearson ( [email protected]) is president of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, in Boston, Massachusetts. Peter B. Bach is an associate attending physician at Memorial ...

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both the individual and population ...

Saint Louis University and the Department of Comparative Medicine within the School of Medicine are committed to supporting the continued advancements in biomedical research. SLU's Department of ...

Until this year, most Americans hadn’t heard of comparative effectiveness research. But then came the giant federal government stimulus package, part of which established a Federal Coordinating ...

Comparative effectiveness research increasingly is being recognized as a priority area in cancer research. Although researchers have been conducting comparative effectiveness research for decades, ...

Comparative effectiveness research in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that is based on administrative databases rather than electronic health records or registries is a new research frontier The strengths ...

About: The Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Research Group brings together a wide range of expertise on the politics of all major world regions, with a particular focus on the ...

John Zalcberg undertook this work while on sabbatical at the National Institute for Clinical Studies but other than in kind support, he did not receive funds from that organisation. The evidence ...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced funding awards for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies addressing a range of adult and ...