No Free Speech for Comparative Effectiveness Researchers?

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 16:22

We have repeatedly argued why comparative effectiveness research, under ideal circumstances, would be a good idea.  As I said before :

Physicians spend a lot of time trying to figure out the best treatments for particular patients' problems.

Doing so is often hard. In many situations, there are many plausible treatments, but the trick is picking the one most likely to do the most good and least harm for a particular patient.

Ideally, this is where evidence based medicine...


 

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