http://dx.doi.org/10.3415/VCOT-14-04-0060 A fundamental aim of the Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology journal is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for orthopaedists and traumatologists in human and veterinary medicine. This is based on the premise that comparative studies of musculoskeletal diseases and injuries are important to the discovery of something new, be it...

With the ongoing debate over health care reform in the United States, public health and policy makers have paid growing attention to the need for comparative effectiveness research (CER). Recent allocation of federal funds for CER represents a significant move toward increased evidence-based practice and better-informed allocation of constrained health care resources; however, there is also hea...

BACKGROUND Technological advances in clinical informatics have made large amounts of data accessible and potentially useful for research. As a result, a burgeoning literature addresses efforts to bridge the fields of health services research and biomedical informatics. The Electronic Data Methods Forum review examines peer-reviewed literature at the intersection of comparative effectiveness res...

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) stands out as the intriguing wild card of health care reform. CER compares competing treatments against each other to determine which interventions work best, supplying critical information for medical decisionmaking and health policy. If CER works as planned, it may be one of the few reform measures in the final health care legislation that could flatte...