NEHI outlines national plan for comparative effectiveness research

Healthcare IT News
February 17, 2011

NEHI, an independent nonprofit national network for health innovation, Thursday proposed a national strategy for disseminating comparative effectiveness research (CER) findings that would be led by the newly created Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)...

"The goal of comparative effectiveness research is to generate a new wave of practical medical evidence," said NEHI Executive Director Valerie Fleishman. "Getting the evidence to doctors and patients is key to improving healthcare - and PCORI is best positioned to do that." 

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