The U.S. government has jump-started an unprecedented effort to better understand what works and what doesn't in health care. The effort, called comparative effectiveness research, is designed to ...

Alan M. Garber Department of Veterans Affairs and Stanford University The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 invested $1.1 billion in federal initiatives to begin the important and ...

This Special Issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology provides a broad, in-depth look at the methodologic field that has become known as comparative effectiveness research (CER). The focus is on CER and ...

Comparative effectiveness research increasingly is being recognized as a priority area in cancer research. Although researchers have been conducting comparative effectiveness research for decades, ...

Patient-advocacy and health policy groups have hailed comparative-effectiveness research (CER) as a means of reducing health care costs without compromising the quality of care. The federal commitment ...

A broad effort is under way to understand what really works in health care, perhaps leading to better value for dollars spent. The U.S. government has jump-started an unprecedented effort to better ...