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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Federal Government has made an unprecedented effort to publicly finance research on the effectiveness of medical treatments. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 established both ...

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

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 ...