Drawing upon a programme of comparative studies in three European countries, England, France and Denmark, this paper discusses some of the particular issues and problems that can arise in comparative ...

Research Design: PBE-CPI incorporates natural variation within data from routine clinical practice to determine what works, for whom, when, and at what cost. It uses the knowledge of front-line ...

In other words, students will begin to develop their research topics as cases of something. The course will cover questions of design and methods of case study research, from single-n to small-n case ...

As comparative effectiveness research becomes a more prominent feature of clinical medicine, investigators and policy makers would do well to seek lessons from prior examples of this type of ...

Using Health Technology Assessment to Identify Gaps in Evidence and Inform Study Design for Comparative Effectiveness Research ...

This Special Issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology provides a broad, in-depth look at the methodologic field that has become known as comparative effectiveness research (CER). The focus is on CER and ...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved funding awards totaling more than $156 million for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), as ...