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Health expenditures in the United States have increased without the equal improvement in quality. Comparative effectiveness research (CER), the evaluation of health-care outcomes that are achieved relative to the cost incurred, is seen as an approach that would help stem the ever-increasing health-care costs. The CER initiative has been denoted as a novel way to improve health-care decisions made by patients, physicians, and other stakeholders. Large efforts have been and continue to be made to establish this initiative. These efforts were formalized by financial support confirmed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) and the establishment of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support CER through evidence generation. This chapter will serve to introduce CER definitions, terminology, role, characteristics, and the level of evidence specific to CER, to individuals
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Kirkness, C.S. (2016). Introduction to Comparative Effectiveness Research. In: Asche, C. (eds) Applying Comparative Effectiveness Data to Medical Decision Making. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23329-1_1
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