Comparative-Effectiveness Research: New Progress in Assessing the Evidence in Today’s Health Care Marketplace
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While the practice of comparing treatment outcomes can be traced to ancient times, the development of comparativeeffectiveness research (CER) as a scientific discipline is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the United States, CER has a pedigree based in health technology assessment, stemming from early efforts by the US Office of Technology Assessment to justify the use of expensive new medical technologies [1].
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