Integrating Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Research with Patient Care

Patient-centered comparative effectiveness research: essential for high-quality care.

Continuous patient engagement in comparative effectiveness research.

THE GOAL OF COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (CER) is to provide patients, their advocates and caregivers, health care professionals, federal officials, policy makers, and payers with evidence-based information to make informed health care decisions. Previously, CER studies were designed by researchers and had relatively little input from patients. Patient engagement has rapidly gained accept...

Economics of individualization in comparative effectiveness research and a basis for a patient-centered health care.

The United States aspires to use information from comparative effectiveness research (CER) to reduce waste and contain costs without instituting a formal rationing mechanism or compromising patient or physician autonomy with regard to treatment choices. With such ambitious goals, traditional combinations of research designs and analytical methods used in CER may lead to disappointing results. I...

Preparing for success with comparative effectiveness research.

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CEPAC and comparative effectiveness research.