In order to encourage dissemination, this commentary is freely available in PLoS Medicine, and will also be published in Medical Decision Making, Croatian Medical Journal, The Cochrane Library, Trials ...

If there was one place research should be easy to perform, it’s on a disease that’s incredibly common. Further, if there are two generally-accepted strategies to treating symptomatic patients with ...

Understanding the clinical nuances of when and to whom services render the greatest benefit requires more research. The type of research that addresses this issue is commonly labeled comparative ...

The goal of comparative effectiveness research is to inform clinical decisions between alternate treatment strategies using data that reflect real patient populations and real-world clinical scenarios ...

Patient-advocacy and health policy groups have hailed comparative-effectiveness research (CER) as a means of reducing health care costs without compromising the quality of care. The federal commitment ...

On its face, comparative effectiveness research (CER) in health care doesn’t sound like a bad idea. If you’re a politician or a taxpayer, you don’t want to waste money. CER’s appeal is fairly simple: ...

Comparative effectiveness research, a proposed method to cut health care spending, is sharply criticized in a new report identifying numerous negative ramifications of the policy. The report, “Shorter ...

With all the chatter and perhaps now "twitter" about healthcare reform, one area has gotten a lot of attention and it is an issue that is near and dear to the Society for Women’s Health Research - ...

Ellen-Marie Whelan discusses why we need evidence-based health care, how it will improve health, and how we can promote it. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are independent, ...