The Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance (CanCORS) Consortium is a multisite, multimode, multiwave study of the quality and patterns of care delivered to population-based cohorts of newly diagnosed patients with lung and colorectal cancer. As is typical in observational studies, missing data are a serious concern for CanCORS, following complicated patterns that impose severe challenge...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization authorized under the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and funded by Congress to help close the gaps in research needed to improve key health outcomes. To do this, PCORI identifies critical research questions, funds patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER), and strives ...

This article was acceptedfOr publication September 3, 1996 W e all hear about the need for information on what kind of care is worth providing in terms of both costs and final results for the patient. Outcomes research is receiving much attention now because it is expected to fill this information gap. Occupational therapists, like other health care professionals, are in the midst of either con...

INTRODUCTION Dutch policy regulations require outcomes research for the assessment of appropriate drug use and cost-effectiveness after 4 years of temporary reimbursement. We investigated whether outcomes research reduced policymaker uncertainty regarding the question whether the costs are worth public funding. METHODS Our cohort study included 139 patients with relapsed/refractory multiple m...

The decade of the 1980s brought forth a significant number of profound changes in the manner in which health care goods and services are provided to the U.S. population. In 1983, Congress established the Prospective Payment System (PPS), which radically altered the manner in which hospitals were reimbursed for treating Medicare patients . By the end of the decade, Congress established a new fee...

A health outcomes research study design is a plan for executing the study. At a minimum, the design depicts the groups studied; for example, treatment and control group, instances of the treatment and the timing, and frequency of health outcomes measures. The design provides a high-level overview of the health outcomes study and insights into the plan for analysis. Finally, the design should sp...

One of the key indicators of the success, maturity, and overall health of a research field is its ability to attract and train bright and talented young investigators. In this regard, the recent Young Investigator Competition at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research (QCOR) conference is a perfect testament to the fact that our field is vibrant and thriving. As a...

Outcomes research focuses on the end results of health care, with emphasis on the patient experience. The field is not a singular discipline, but rather draws on a broad range of primary fields to produce knowledge that can inform decisions at the patient and health system level. Outcomes research uses a wide spectrum of methods that include experimental and nonexperimental designs. It is disti...

Robots offer great promise for responding to the pressing economic, social, and environmental issues affecting our planet and its growing human population. Self-driving vehicles could save thousands of lives lost in traffic accidents, underwater robots are invaluable tools for exploring depths otherwise unreachable to humans, robotic caretakers have the potential to revolutionize quality of lif...