How Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Affect the Quality of Health Care?

February 10, 2010 Elizabeth Docteur and Robert Berenson recently published their research titled How Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Affect the Quality of Health Care in the "Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issues February 2010". Comparative effectiveness (CE) is defined as the study of methods to "prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition or to improve the delivery of care". Comparative effectiveness encompasses alternative approaches to improve health care delivery for consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers.In this report, Docteur and Berenson discuss comparative effectiveness and how, if used, will produce better information on what health care involvements . . .