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An NIH study of treatments for high blood pressure, called the ALLHAT trial, shows some of the strengths and limitations of comparative effectiveness research to improve patient care. More...
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PIPC urges inclusion of Senate CER provision in final reform legislation
Submitted by Tony Coelho on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 17:24 | Posted in:Agree or disagree with the recent changes to mammography guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), one thing is clear – two sets of highly qualified experts can come to very different conclusions when looking at the same evidence. This holds big implications for provisions of health care reform like comparative effectiveness research (CER).
PIPC Chairman Coelho sits down with SCAA
Submitted by PIPC Staff on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 20:50 | Posted in:Last week, PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho sat down with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association (SCAA) to talk about comparative effectiveness research (CER) and how this research and other aspects of health reform will affect patients.
Health reform measures must leave decision-making to patients, providers
Submitted by Tony Coelho on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 16:52 | Posted in:Will government-supported comparative effectiveness research (CER) come between doctors and patients in making treatment decisions? The jury, I think, is still out.
We all can agree, as stated in a recent blog post by the Center for American Progress (CAP), that the goal of CER is to "permit patients and their health providers to make better decisions about care based on evidence."
Patient Care – Not Cost – Must be Focus of Future CER
Submitted by Tony Coelho on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 19:05 | Posted in:As the nation continues to focus on the health care debate, PIPC is maintaining its commitment to ensuring patient care – not cost – is the driving force behind new efforts to implement comparative effectiveness research (CER).
Making Progress Towards Patient-Centered Health Reform
Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 15:30 | Posted in:In a recent op-ed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer outlined some important components of health care reform, including their support for “research on health outcomes to better inform the decisions of patients and doctors.”
