Comparative effectiveness: its role in the healthcare system.
Publication/Presentation Date
5-1-2009
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To describe comparative effectiveness and assess its role in crafting new healthcare policy.
RECENT FINDINGS: Senate Bill S.3408 would establish a nongovernment-affiliated Healthcare Comparative Effectiveness Research Institute that would work with healthcare experts and stakeholders in healthcare to prioritize interventions and services to be studied. A value-based medicine system of standardized comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness data using utilities would allow physicians to assess the total value (improvement in quality of life and/or length of life) conferred by interventions.
SUMMARY: Standardized comparativeness and cost-effectiveness data will give physicians an information system to identify the interventions that confer the greatest value to patients, and thus deliver higher quality care than possible with evidence-based data alone while allowing the most cost-effective care.
Volume
20
Issue
3
First Page
188
Last Page
194
ISSN
1531-7021
Published In/Presented At
Brown, M. M., Luo, B., Brown, H. C., & Brown, G. C. (2009). Comparative effectiveness: its role in the healthcare system. Current opinion in ophthalmology, 20(3), 188–194. https://doi.org/10.1097/icu.0b013e328329cd59
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
19425205
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article