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 ...

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

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 ...

RARC is composed of the following sections: Aquatic Services and Systems, Biosecurity, Education and Quality Assurance, Husbandry and Operations, and Veterinary Services. RARC provides housing, ...

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 ...

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 ...