Such comparative research might show that America would be safer if it focused more on policing and Europe would do better by increasing sentences.
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, passed at a time when Republicans occupied the White House and controlled Congress, authorized the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to perform comparative effectiveness research.
Comparative effectiveness research began in the late 1970s and, until the recent health care debate, for the most part enjoyed bipartisan political support.
Comparative effectiveness research involves running large, statistically robust clinical trials so we can judge how different therapies for a particular disease compare to each other.
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Many conservatives reacted by arguing that comparative effectiveness research is bad, because it is a pretext for government interference in clinical practice, and for price controls.
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Nonetheless, I do believe that government, in the form of the National Institutes of Health, has a constructive role to play in funding comparative effectiveness research.
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Comparative effectiveness research shows which treatments are more effective.
Comparative effectiveness research has been done for years.
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He said that the growing use of comparative effectiveness research, which provides information on the relative strengths and weaknesses of different medical technologies, could help close the gap between what is known and what is done in pharmaceutical care.
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Comparative effectiveness research is part of a plan to reallocate health care resources in a way similar to the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which uses "experts" to judge the cost-effectiveness of therapies, in order to decide which ones the government will pay for.
At its best, comparative-effectiveness research can give doctors and patients additional information on their treatment options.
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The 15-member Independent Medicare Advisory board will be formed amid concerns that it will arbitrarily turn down essential services based on overused so-called "comparative effectiveness" research.
Branko Milanovic, lead economist for the World Bank research group, sent me this comparative analysis based on household income or consumption surveys worldwide, adjusted for purchasing power differences.
My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.
His research deals with several fields related to teacher education, intercultural education, education sociology and comparative education.
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She has been Associate Faculty of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California at San Diego since 2002 and Professor Emerita of Social Research Methodology at the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she taught from 1989 to 2009.
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We would not be able to invest in basic research that helped to create the Internet and helped to create GPS, and is our main comparative advantage in this 21st century economy.
This discussion will be followed by a comparative analysis of the German and French public adaptation policies to climate change and finally by a dialogue between researchers and research program officers on disasters and sustainable development.
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