Comparative Effectiveness

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A member of the support staff for the United States Preventive Services Task Force has quit over the cancellation of a meeting scheduled for today and tomorrow

Oct 29 2010

NPR

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Critics of one of the most controversial parts of the British health system may lose their target in a few years.

Oct 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The United States Preventive Services Task Force has canceled a meeting set for early next month at which the thorny issue of prostate-cancer screening was due for a vote.

Oct 20 2010

New York Times

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The new issue of the journal Health Affairs lays out a plan that would give expensive new treatments three years to prove that they worked better than cheaper treatments

Oct 15 2010

Washington Post

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The Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s board, if successful, could increase the public’s knowledge of medical treatments for everything from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder to cancer.

Oct 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A study on the increased use of imaging in the emergency department raises questions about how to best provide quality, cost-effective care to patients

Oct 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Conveying how well a therapy works — and doing so in understandable terms — isn’t easy, but a group of physicians is trying to change that.

Oct 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The “comparative effectiveness” of different treatments for the same medical condition to determine how much to pay for newly covered services – this could yield billions of dollars in savings without threatening patient choice

Oct 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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How well a therapy works compared to the alternatives doesn’t currently factor into how much Medicare pays for it. Two researchers, writing in Health Affairs, say that should change.

Oct 05 2010

Health Affairs

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Health Affairs: Comparative Effectiveness Research. A broad effort is under way to understand what really works in health care, perhaps leading to better value for dollars spent.

Oct 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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U.S. Health and Human Services officials have announced $473 million in funding for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.

Sep 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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DHHS announced Wednesday that three sets of grants and cooperative agreements totaling nearly $17 million have been made available for comparative effectiveness research.

Aug 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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If regulations deem that only the treatment judged most effective is paid for, “my concern is that .. we begin to limit what people are willing to do in terms of developing new products,” Cosgrove said

Aug 18 2010

Washington Post

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Analysts expect the recently signed health-care overhaul law to spur an increase in research comparing drugs and devices, areas where both Medco and United BioSource have reach.

Aug 12 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Economic-stimulus funds for scientific research are becoming a political target for Republican skeptics who say they have identified some grants as evidence of wasteful spending.

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