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PCORI Needs to Step Up Research on Comparing the Effectiveness of Health Care
Center for American Progress [Opinion] Jan. 25, 2014 "[Comparative effectiveness research (CER)] evaluates the effectiveness of two or more prevention, diagnosis, or treatment options ... [and] has the potential to lower health care costs over the long term while maintaining or improving the quality of care ... The [ACA] created a new independent nonprofit, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to fund and disseminate CER.... [F]our years into its 10-year existence, the institute has dedicated less than 40 percent of its research funding to CER. Moreover, PCORI has not initiated a single CER study of medical devices, launched only a few CER studies of drugs, and produced only a handful of analyses that synthesize existing CER studies." |
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