Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has funded a wide variety of research comparing different treatments to one another. One thing PCORI was forbidden from funding, however, was cost-effectiveness analyses. Section 1181 of the Social Security Act, however, has expanded the scope of the types of…
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is poised to develop and oversee a vast portfolio of new comparative effectiveness research. For this endeavor to transform patient care, new evidence must be disseminated to clinicians and patients, understood and considered relevant, and used in the decisions that inform clinical care. According to a Health Affairs paper…
Many of the best practices discovered in the research community are never implemented in practice. Why is this the case? One reason is that physicians are overloaded with information and it is costly to cull the literature for best practice information. This is especially true when best practices are not clearly identified or change over…