Thus, comparative effectiveness studies can be useful, at times both improving patient care and reducing medical costs.
Biopharmaceutical companies have been building such comparative effectiveness studies in their clinical development programs for the past decade.
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This gap in knowledge is what comparative effectiveness studies are intended to address.
AnalyticsDNA was commissioned to audit and aggregate the campaign effectiveness studies of a new form of advertising called the Type-Ins.
Mr Obama wants to expand comparative effectiveness studies and health technology assessments.
President Obama is pushing "comparative effectiveness" studies that could pit pricey medical devices against cheap generic pills.
They findings are likely to provide ammunition to legislators and doctors pushing for more "comparative effectiveness" studies to be done as part of health care reform.
It is true that the studies done on acupuncture have been a mixed bag with some showing clear effectiveness beyond placebo (many of these animal studies) and others showing lesser effectiveness within the placebo range.
But in the best done studies its effectiveness is not as clear.
Several recent studies have recently demonstrated the effectiveness of topiramate for alcoholism and cocaine addiction, and more studies are planned.
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Studies touting the effectiveness of drug treatment have little validity because they are based on self-reports.
But the company cannot point to any independent peer-reviewed studies vouching for its effectiveness.
Additional studies will evaluate the effectiveness of the pill in glioblastoma, a lethal brain tumor, small-cell lung cancer and prostate cancer.
Researchers hope that if the ongoing preliminary studies prove the safety and effectiveness of these drugs for certain treatments, the government will step in to fund larger trials.
The business case for diversity is strong, and numerous studies on the cost and effectiveness of diversity or why gender diversity is a corporate performance driver list plenty of proof points.
The microneedle vaccines could be self-administered, but we need to await the outcome of human clinical trials and successful filing of all the clinical documentation (safety studies, and results of vaccine effectiveness) to the national regulatory authorities, who will decide who can administer this type of vaccine.
Studies that could confirm dimebon's effectiveness are now underway.
However, Dr Jepson said more studies may be needed to better understand the effectiveness of cranberry tablets and capsules for women with recurrent UTIs.
If BPA was a pill that targeted a disease, what would the pharmacokinetic studies tell a drug discovery team about its potential effectiveness?
Still, a review in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy concludes that many studies haven't been rigorous enough to test effectiveness and define the best practices of chaplains' care.
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The safety and effectiveness of Xarelto for the new indications were evaluated in three clinical studies.
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That is a hard measure of effectiveness to quantify and defend, so the analysts working on the studies tend to avoid using it.
Two clinical studies involving 1, 684 patients with lupus demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of Benlysta.
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It is clear if the FDA is asking manufacturers to do new studies on these drugs, it does not 100% trust its effectiveness and safety.
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Although the findings of the studies are mostly consistent in showing a similar magnitude hazard ratio, estimates of the effectiveness of sipuleucel-T are imprecise due to the relatively small total sample size of the clinical trials, and unmeasurable biases due to potential confounding effects of frozen salvage product and post-progression treatments.
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