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 ...

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 ...

Most recently, the field of comparative effectiveness research (CER) has taken center stage 1 in this arena, driven, at least in part, by the belief that better information about which treatment a ...

Cancer is extremely political and extremely emotional. That makes a discussion on the economics of cancer treatment tricky. Further, the cost and value of cancer therapies are not discussed properly.

There is an increasing need for reliable information on the relative value of medical interventions to assist decision making on both the individual and public health levels; addressing this need is ...

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 ...

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