Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research?

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:34

We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post ,

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...


 

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