The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $208 million to support 17 new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies, including ...

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 ...

Importance of Health Information Technology, Electronic Health Records, and Continuously Aggregating Data to Comparative Effectiveness Research and Learning Health Care Despite stunning advances in ...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the approval of funding awards totaling more than $165 million for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness ...

Comparative effectiveness research is under attack as a new way to limit access to the best health care. Nothing could be further from the truth—in fact, it’s the exact opposite. Comparative ...

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.” ...

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 - ...

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: ...

That’s her hope for her current multisite randomized controlled trial, which will test the effects of a low glycemic load diet and calorie restriction in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). She and ...

Correspondence to Dr Parco M Siu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong; pmsiu{at}hku.hk Data sources Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus and ...