Editor’s Note: In the October issue of Health Affairs, Steven Pearson and Peter Bach proposed a new Medicare payment model incorporating comparative effectiveness research. Under the model, services ...

The goal of comparative effectiveness research is to inform clinical decisions between alternate treatment strategies using data that reflect real patient populations and real-world clinical scenarios ...

Comparative effectiveness research is a tool to use in achieving patient-centered, high-value health care. However, applying the results to individual patients and health systems raises unique issues.

The Center of Comparative Medicine and Pathology (CCMP) supports animal model use in cancer research through teams including the Research Animal Resource Center (RARC) and the Laboratory of ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 5 conducted a systematic review on the use of instrumental variable (IV) methods in oncology comparative effectiveness research. The main ...

The aim of CER is to assess the effectiveness and worth of medical interventions in real-life scenarios. Image from shutterstock.com The evidence gleaned from medical research directly affects the ...