Effectiveness Research

maternity, research issues

Are consumers at the bottom of the evidence pyramid?

e-Patient Dave | March 9, 2010

We’re pleased to present another guest post by Amy Romano, which first appeared on the phenomenal maternity blog Science and Sensibility. See also her newest post, last night, here – including a terrific BlogTalkRadio interview in which she expresses herself on the virtues of Participatory Medicine. I have argued (here and here on e-patients.net, and [...]

Meaningful Use: The Elephant IS In The Room

Gilles Frydman | May 18, 2009

Comparative Effectiveness: a comparison of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such studies may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or they may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy. The analysis may focus only on the [...]