Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both the individual and population ...

There is an increasing need for reliable information on the relative value of medical interventions to assist decision making on both the individual and public health levels; addressing this need is ...

Whether more comparative research will limit healthcare spending remains to be seen. The Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier this year that the CER initiative will reduce federal healthcare ...

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in International Relations, MPhil/PhD in Social Policy and MPhil/PhD in Social Research Methods. This course is available as an outside option to students on ...

The U.S. government has jump-started an unprecedented effort to better understand what works and what doesn't in health care. The effort, called comparative effectiveness research, is designed to ...