Comparative Effectiveness Research: Are The Methods Being Used Correctly?
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Methods in comparative effectiveness research.
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both the individual and population levels. CER includes evidence generation and evidence synthesis. Randomized controlled trials are central to CER because of the lack of selection bias, with the recent development of adaptive and pra...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics & Outcome Research: Open Access
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2573-4520
DOI: 10.4172/2573-4520.1000132