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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reviewing the earlier literature on methodological issues in comparative research, the paper argues that 'in terms of methodology in abstracto and on issues of research technology, most of all that ...

In the context of urban studies and urban planning, future cities’ development and prosperity is highly related to their capacity to adapt and recover from shocks and changes caused by diverse types ...

International and Comparative Law encompasses the study of legal systems beyond national borders and the systematic comparison of their norms, institutions and practices. It investigates the interplay ...

Major research questions in the field of social stratification and mobility deal with similarities and differences in the patterns of social mobility in space and time. Answers are typically given by ...

Play in nonhuman animals (animals) is a hot topic and there is much on-going comparative research about why play has evolved and how various animals engage in this vital activity (please see, for ...

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 ...