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The Nesting‐Egg Problem: Why Comparative Effectiveness Research Is Trickier Than It Looks
Author(s) -
GILBERT SUSAN
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.0.0194
Subject(s) - plaintiff , medicine , physical therapy , actuarial science , law , economics , political science
Fewer than half of medical interventions are supported by scientific evidence. These essays examine the hopes that the new push for comparative effectiveness research will improve medical care, the fears that it could harm the doctor‐patient relationship, and the experiences of states and countries that already put it into practice.