Comparative Effectiveness Research: Outcome or Economic Benefit?

Comparative effectiveness research: from clinical information to economic incentives.

Comparative effectiveness research has been promoted as a way to control health care costs, but there has been less discussion of the mechanisms through which new evidence actually will influence physician practice, patient preference, and manufacturer investment. Public and private insurers use conditional coverage, consumer cost sharing, provider contracting, and drug payment policies to mana...

Hymenoplasty: Benefit or Corruption

Hymenoplasty is a surgery that doctors perform to repair girl `s virginity who lost it through virginal intercourse or other accidents. During their practice, doctors may face demands that do not have a therapeutic effect and are derived from the cultural and customary considerations of society. Given the fact that the doctor should also consider the patient's greatest benefit in such cases and...

CEPAC and comparative effectiveness research.

Methods in comparative effectiveness research.

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 levels. CER includes evidence generation and evidence synthesis. Randomized controlled trials are central to CER because of the lack of selection bias, with the recent development of adaptive and pra...

James C . Robinson Comparative Effectiveness Research : From Clinical Information To Economic Incentives

Comparative effectiveness research has been promoted as a way to control health care costs, but there has been less discussion of the mechanisms through which new evidence actually will influence physician practice, patient preference, and manufacturer investment. Public and private insurers use conditional coverage, consumer cost sharing, provider contracting, and drug payment policies to mana...