The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (CER). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Patient-Centered ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although the concept of comparative effectiveness research is not new, politicians and medical providers alike ...

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 ...

The Purdue University Board of Trustees has approved the naming of the Evan and Sue Ann Werling Comparative Oncology Research Center in recognition of the donors’ $10 million gift. The center, part of ...

Comparative effectiveness research increasingly is being recognized as a priority area in cancer research. Although researchers have been conducting comparative effectiveness research for decades, ...

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.” ...

PCORI also is offering up to $200 million through the Phased Large Awards for Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (PLACER) PFA, for ambitious, large-scale two-phased trials addressing critical ...

The importance of science advice—broadly defined here as practices for mobilizing scientific knowledge in support of public decision-making—is now widely accepted (OECD, 2015). Over the last decade, ...