Health researcher views on comparative effectiveness research and research engagement

Continuous patient engagement in comparative effectiveness research.

THE GOAL OF COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (CER) is to provide patients, their advocates and caregivers, health care professionals, federal officials, policy makers, and payers with evidence-based information to make informed health care decisions. Previously, CER studies were designed by researchers and had relatively little input from patients. Patient engagement has rapidly gained accept...

Views on Researcher-Community Engagement in Autism Research in the United Kingdom: A Mixed-Methods Study

There has been a substantial increase in research activity on autism during the past decade. Research into effective ways of responding to the immediate needs of autistic people is, however, less advanced, as are efforts at translating basic science research into service provision. Involving community members in research is one potential way of reducing this gap. This study therefore investigat...

Needed: Global Collaboration for Comparative Research on Cities and Health

Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (HPAM), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. We make a case for creating a global database on citie...

Comparative Effectiveness Research in Health Services.

CEPAC and comparative effectiveness research.