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 ...

Comparative effectiveness research has been the target of recurrent criticism in some political circles, with opponents claiming it’s the “gateway to rationing” or it encourages “cookbook medicine.” ...

This Special Issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology provides a broad, in-depth look at the methodologic field that has become known as comparative effectiveness research (CER). The focus is on CER 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 ...

Clinical trials that are embedded into usual care have the potential to yield outcomes of great relevance to the institutions where they are performed and at the same time to yield information that ...

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 ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center investigators who are writing grant applications and need descriptions of the Comparative Medicine shared resource can find them on the Comparative Medicine CenterNet ...

This field investigates the similarities, differences, and interconnections between education systems across nations, drawing on historical, sociocultural, and policy‐driven perspectives. By examining ...

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 ...

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 ...