Does Comparative-Effectiveness Research Threaten Personalized Medicine?
Author(s) -
Alan M. Garber,
Sean Tunis
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmp0901355
Subject(s) - comparative effectiveness research , medicine , general partnership , psychological intervention , personalized medicine , skepticism , medline , value (mathematics) , alternative medicine , medical care , public relations , medical education , family medicine , nursing , business , pathology , biology , political science , law , philosophy , finance , epistemology , machine learning , computer science , genetics
Concerns have been raised that comparative-effectiveness research (CER) will not take adequate account of individual patient differences and may impede the development and adoption of improvements in medical care. Drs. Alan Garber and Sean Tunis argue that CER offers a way to hasten the discovery of the best approaches to personalization.
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