Observational Methods The emergence of comparative effectiveness has led to a renewed interest in the role of observational studies for assessing the benefits and harms of alternative interventions.

This is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems. The increasingly widespread adoption of electronic ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research (CER). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Patient-Centered ...

Cancer is extremely political and extremely emotional. That makes a discussion on the economics of cancer treatment tricky. Further, the cost and value of cancer therapies are not discussed properly.

Peripheral neuropathic pain is one of the most common and debilitating complications of diabetes. Several genes have been shown to be effective in reducing neuropathic pain in animal models of ...

Clinical trials that are embedded into usual care have the potential to yield outcomes of great relevance to the institutions where they are performed and at the same time to yield information that ...

Data sources Sensitive search in seven databases, three grey literature resources and four trial registers. Eligibility criteria Randomised controlled trials evaluating any treatment for PFP with ...

Robotic and minimally invasive approaches have reshaped hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) and pancreatic surgical oncology, offering smaller incisions, reduced ...

Quality control by photograph for evaluation of open (OP) and laparoscopic (LAP) colectomy with D3 resection for stage II/III colorectal cancer: Japan Clinical Oncology Group study JCOG 0404. This is ...

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What are key issues in setting a strategy for comparative effectiveness research? Medicare is barred by law from using the research to make decisions on what to pay for, but how could it use the ...