Sentences with phrase «comparative effectiveness research»

Last year, a panel of experts came up with a draft definition for comparative effectiveness research.

That should make support and protection for comparative effectiveness research one of the easiest pieces of the health care puzzle to resolve.

European COMPARative Effectiveness research on blended Depression treatment versus treatment - as - usual (E-COMPARED): study protocol for a randomized controlled, non-inferiority trial in eight European countries

AHRQ had funded comparative effectiveness research before PCORI came along, she says, but it no longer does.

In early December, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska attempted to insert an amendment to the health care bill forbidding insurers from denying coverage of medical tests or treatments based on comparative effectiveness research findings.

In late February, the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute awarded $ 14 million to UPMC and Pitt through the HPI's Comparative Effectiveness Research Center to lead a clinical trial to determine how well an intervention that helps people better understand their back pain early on works toward promoting recovery and ultimately preventing chronic pain.

It is gratifying that the National Institutes of Health is finally willing to fund real comparative effectiveness research.

A quiet revolution in comparative effectiveness research just might save us from soaring medical costs

«Our results call for additional comparative effectiveness research.»

So it seems to me that [comparative effectiveness research] is a field whose time has come.»

PCORI now spends about $ 500 million a year on studies looking at which of two treatments works better, an area known as comparative effectiveness research.

Despite a growing interest in comparative effectiveness research, little medical study is being done to improve this aspect of patient care

As the editors note, «[t] o make informed decisions, any individual and his or her doctor need evidence, so comparative effectiveness research should, in principle, make more personalized medicine possible.»

The Office also supports a CER Pilot Grant program within the Cancer Center and the multi-institutional Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Cancer Imaging.

Second, the bill funds Comparative Effectiveness research (CER).

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 also allotted $ 1.1 billion to comparative effectiveness research (CER), whose results are expected to begin appearing within a year or so.

Yet the NIH allocates less than 1 percent of its $ 30 billion annual budget to «comparative effectiveness research,» the kind needed to sort out the surgeries, drugs, and devices that work from those that do not.

The findings of this comparative effectiveness research could be applied to over one million patients undergoing joint arthroplasty in the United States each year.

Sources: Draft Definition of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research; Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Institute of Medicine.

A $ 1 billion funding windfall has brought newfound attention to comparative effectiveness research (CER) and broadened career opportunities in this growing field.

Here's the first line: «Comparative effectiveness research is the conduct and synthesis of systematic research comparing different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor health conditions.»

As the editors note in this month's Scientific American, comparative effectiveness research (CER) is one such initiative.

More Hispanic Texans die from cancer than any other cause, according to a new report by the Comparative Effectiveness Research on Cancer in Texas research group.

Diagnosis - based risk adjustment is also used in comparative effectiveness research and in academic research into variations in medical care across America.

The CYCORE (Cyberinfrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research) project has demonstrated initial feasibility and acceptability of a system of home - based sensors, including activity monitors, that transmit information to oncologists for early detection of dehydration among head and neck cancer patients [50].