Cost Comparisons Likely To Come Later In Comparative Effectiveness

InsideHealthPolicy.com
December 1, 2008

Cost-effectiveness research will likely become part of comparative effectiveness research, but chances are it will be some time after clinical effectiveness research is undertaken before the government starts doing cost effectiveness studies to stem rising health care costs, a comparative effectiveness expert predicts...

"The clinical effectiveness standard is much less inhibiting of innovation than the cost-effectiveness standard is," Wendy Everett, president of the New England Healthcare Institute, said Tuesday (Nov. 18) at a Food and Drug Law Institute conference in Washington. But excluding cost effectiveness from comparative effectiveness research is unlikely in the long term because the results of clinical effectiveness will not be widely adopted without cost considerations, she suggested...

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