Comparative Effectiveness Research in Health Services

Abstract

Nineteen papers provide a range of perspectives on comparative-effectiveness research as a way of improving patient experience of health care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. Papers discuss ethical frameworks and comparative-effectiveness research; comparative-effectiveness research and health reform in the United States; comparative-effectiveness research in health-technology assessment; comparative-effectiveness research and priority setting; national approaches to comparative-effectiveness research; the dissemination of comparative-effectiveness research; promotion, innovation, and health--choosing between personalized medicine or comparative-effectiveness research; comparative-effectiveness research in developing countries--the example of Brazil; patient-centered comparative-effectiveness research; implementation science and comparative-effectiveness research; costs in comparative-effectiveness research; sources of data for comparative-effectiveness research; traditional and innovative study designs in comparative-effectiveness research; individualization of treatment and comparative-effectiveness research; comparing drug and nondrug technologies in comparative-effectiveness research; coverage with evidence development in comparative-effectiveness research; incorporating patient and public input for treatment in comparative-effectiveness research; new statistical methods of combining results in comparative-effectiveness research; and evidence-based medicine and comparative-effectiveness research. Levy is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Dalhousie University. Sobolev is Senior Scientist at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation and Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. No index.