Comparative effectiveness: its role in the healthcare system
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Published on: February 16, 2011
Melissa M Brown1, Betsy Luo, Heidi C Brown
1Center for Value-Based Medicine, Flourtown, PA, USA. lissa1011@gmail.com
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.
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