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Improving Patient Care
Patients should have information that can help them make the best decisions about their health care. Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) – or comparing different types of health treatments and services – can be one source of information to consider. Like many health care issues, however, CER could be misapplied. That could negatively impact everyone’s health care choices – if policy makers fail to put the proper safeguards in place. Patients and doctors should have access to the insights CER can provide and be assured that personal health care choices will remain in patients’ hands with their doctors’ support.
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WHITEHOUSE & GINGRICH: Next president must put health in health care.
A comparative effectiveness institute also can collect and understand the best practices of the country's best providers of care. There are innovators out there, such as Intermountain Healthcare in Utah and Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, which deliver the best possible care at the lowest cost.
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How to Take American Health Care From Worst to First.
Studies have shown that most health care is not based on clinical studies of what works best and what does not — be it a test, treatment, drug or technology. Instead, most care is based on informed opinion, personal observation or tradition.
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Device Makers Fear Medicare Cuts in 111th Congress.
AdvaMed and other medical technology groups say they will also keep an eye on proposals to create a new entity that would compare drugs, devices and surgical procedures.
