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Book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness

Download or read book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness written by Professor United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing on strategies to increase information on comparative clinical effectiveness: hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, June 12, 2007.

Book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness

Download or read book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing on strategies to increase information on comparative clinical effectiveness: hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, June 12, 2007.

Book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness

Download or read book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness

Download or read book Hearing on Strategies to Increase Information on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Effectiveness Research

Download or read book Comparative Effectiveness Research written by Carol M. Ashton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all its costs, flaws, and inequities, American health care is fundamentally rooted in a belief that treatment should be based on solid scientific research. To this end, between 2003 and 2010, three different federal laws were enacted, the most recent being the Affordable Care Act of 2010, that mandated new federal investments in a type of clinical research called comparative effectiveness research (CER) -- research into what works best in medical care. Comparative Effectiveness Research: Evidence, Medicine, and Policy provides the first complete account of how -- and why -- the federal government decided to make CER an important feature of health reform. Despite earlier legislative uptake of policy proposals on CER, support for federal mandates took dramatic twists and turns, with eventual compromises forged amid failing bipartisan alliances, special interests, and mobilized public opinion. Based on exhaustive research and first-hand interviews, the authors examine where CER fits in the production of scientific evidence about the benefits and harms of treatments for human diseases and conditions. Their work offers sobering confirmation that contemporary American medical care falls, not surprisingly, well short of the evidence-based ideal. Comparative Effectiveness Research demonstrates that dealing constructively with the vast uncertainties inherent to medical care requires policies to make the generation of high-quality evidence an inseparable part of routine health care.

Book Learning What Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2011-07-09
  • ISBN : 0309120683
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Learning What Works written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is essential for patients and clinicians to have the resources needed to make informed, collaborative care decisions. Despite this need, only a small fraction of health-related expenditures in the United States have been devoted to comparative effectiveness research (CER). To improve the effectiveness and value of the care delivered, the nation needs to build its capacity for ongoing study and monitoring of the relative effectiveness of clinical interventions and care processes through expanded trials and studies, systematic reviews, innovative research strategies, and clinical registries, as well as improving its ability to apply what is learned from such study through the translation and provision of information and decision support. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop to discuss capacity priorities to build the evidence base necessary for care that is more effective and delivers higher value for patients. Learning What Works summarizes the proceedings of the seventh workshop in the Learning Health System series. This workshop focused on the infrastructure needs-including methods, coordination capacities, data resources and linkages, and workforce-for developing an expanded and efficient national capacity for CER. Learning What Works also assesses the current and needed capacity to expand and improve this work, and identifies priority next steps. Learning What Works is a valuable resource for health care professionals, as well as health care policy makers.

Book America s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

Download or read book America s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments

Download or read book Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments written by Peter Villa and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the comparative effectiveness of medical treatments as applied in the health care sector. An analysis of comparative effectiveness is simply a comparison of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. These studies may compare both similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or they may analyse very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy. The analysis may focus only on the relative medical benefits and risks of each option, or it may go on to weigh both the costs and the benefits of those options. In some cases, a given treatment may be found more effective for all types of patients, but more commonly a key issue is determining which specific types would benefit most from it. Although some information about the effectiveness of new drugs, medical devices, or procedures is often available, rigorous comparisons of different treatment options are less common. Thus, this book compares and discusses which treatments work best for which patients and whether the added benefits of more-effective but more-expensive services are sufficient to warrant their added costs.

Book Unhealthy Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric M. Patashnik
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN : 0691208565
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Unhealthy Politics written by Eric M. Patashnik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Unhealthy Politics sheds new light on why the government's response to this troubling situation has been so inadequate, and why efforts to improve the evidence base of U.S. medicine continue to cause so much political controversy. This critically important book paints a portrait of a medical industry with vast influence over which procedures and treatments get adopted, and a public burdened by the rising costs of health care yet fearful of going against "doctor's orders." Now with a new preface by the authors, Unhealthy Politics offers vital insights into the limits of science, expertise, and professionalism in American politics.

Book Redesigning the Clinical Effectiveness Research Paradigm

Download or read book Redesigning the Clinical Effectiveness Research Paradigm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scientific and technological advances have accelerated our understanding of the causes of disease development and progression, and resulted in innovative treatments and therapies. Ongoing work to elucidate the effects of individual genetic variation on patient outcomes suggests the rapid pace of discovery in the biomedical sciences will only accelerate. However, these advances belie an important and increasing shortfall between the expansion in therapy and treatment options and knowledge about how these interventions might be applied appropriately to individual patients. The impressive gains made in Americans' health over the past decades provide only a preview of what might be possible when data on treatment effects and patient outcomes are systematically captured and used to evaluate their effectiveness. Needed for progress are advances as dramatic as those experienced in biomedicine in our approach to assessing clinical effectiveness. In the emerging era of tailored treatments and rapidly evolving practice, ensuring the translation of scientific discovery into improved health outcomes requires a new approach to clinical evaluation. A paradigm that supports a continual learning process about what works best for individual patients will not only take advantage of the rigor of trials, but also incorporate other methods that might bring insights relevant to clinical care and endeavor to match the right method to the question at hand. The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care's vision for a learning healthcare system, in which evidence is applied and generated as a natural course of care, is premised on the development of a research capacity that is structured to provide timely and accurate evidence relevant to the clinical decisions faced by patients and providers. As part of the Roundtable's Learning Healthcare System series of workshops, clinical researchers, academics, and policy makers gathered for the workshop Redesigning the Clinical Effectiveness Research Paradigm: Innovation and Practice-Based Approaches. Participants explored cutting-edge research designs and methods and discussed strategies for development of a research paradigm to better accommodate the diverse array of emerging data resources, study designs, tools, and techniques. Presentations and discussions are summarized in this volume.

Book Developing a Protocol for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research  A User s Guide

Download or read book Developing a Protocol for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research A User s Guide written by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (U.S.) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is a resource for investigators and stakeholders who develop and review observational comparative effectiveness research protocols. It explains how to (1) identify key considerations and best practices for research design; (2) build a protocol based on these standards and best practices; and (3) judge the adequacy and completeness of a protocol. Eleven chapters cover all aspects of research design, including: developing study objectives, defining and refining study questions, addressing the heterogeneity of treatment effect, characterizing exposure, selecting a comparator, defining and measuring outcomes, and identifying optimal data sources. Checklists of guidance and key considerations for protocols are provided at the end of each chapter. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews. More more information, please consult the Agency website: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov)

Book Comparative Clinical Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness Research

Download or read book Comparative Clinical Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proponents maintain that a new comparative clinical effectiveness research entity in the United States could have the potential to increase the efficiency and coordination of research, boost the perceived independence and scientific integrity of the research, or generate research not currently being conducted. [...] A survey of the published medical literature and a review of the historical and current research initiatives provide a limited summary of the scale and scope of the comparative effectiveness research that has been funded and conducted. [...] This section provides such a survey of the literature and reviews health technology research initiatives in the U. S. The section also discusses how comparative effectiveness research has been used in the U. S. and other countries and the potential role of a new comparative effectiveness entity. [...] The initiatives' timing and scale are summarized in Table 2. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are currently the largest federal funders of extramural health technology assessments. [...] The guidelines suggest comparisons to other products and a model that predicts the costs and health outcomes with the product in the health insurance plan.

Book Journal of the American Medical Association

Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: