Two Reports Offer Definitions, Plans For Comparative Effectiveness Research

From The Cancer Letter, July 3, 2009:

The Institute of Medicine and a government-wide coordinating group on earlier this week issued reports intended to guide the $1.1 billion federal effort to jump-start research in comparative effectiveness.

The IOM report, which is more specific of the two documents, included 100 projects for comparative effectiveness studies. Of these projects, 12 seem to be directly relevant to cancer, and at least a couple more could be construed as partially relevant.

The reports also include largely similar definitions of comparative effectiveness research.

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