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 ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is designed to increase the number of U. S. citizens with access to health insurance. Along with augmented access to health insurance and hopefully ...

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 ...

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: RACHAEL L. FLEURENCE, HUSEYIN NACI & JEROEN P. JANSEN Rachael Fleurence, Huseyin Naci, and Jeroen Jansen team up in this issue of Health Affairs to make the case that observational ...

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

The aim of CER is to assess the effectiveness and worth of medical interventions in real-life scenarios. Image from shutterstock.com The evidence gleaned from medical research directly affects the ...