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The promise and realities of comparative effectiveness research
Author(s) -
Gatsonis Constantine
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.3936
Subject(s) - mandate , comparative effectiveness research , focus (optics) , computer science , management science , data science , operations research , political science , economics , law , engineering , health care , physics , optics
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) has been given a broad and ambitious mandate. Will it be able to deliver the multifaceted and granular comparative information that it has been tasked with developing? After a discussion of the general conditions for the feasibility of CER, we focus our attention on one of the most challenging areas: the evaluation of diagnostic tests and biomarkers. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.