• Statistics in medicine · Aug 2010

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    The promise and realities of comparative effectiveness research.

    • Constantine Gatsonis.
    • Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University, Box G-S121, Providence, RI 02912, USA. gatsonis@stat.brown.edu
    • Stat Med. 2010 Aug 30;29(19):1977-81; discussion 1996-7.

    AbstractComparative Effectiveness Research (CER) has been given a broad and ambitious mandate. Will it be able to deliver the multifaceted and granular comparative information that it has been tasked with developing? After a discussion of the general conditions for the feasibility of CER, we focus our attention on one of the most challenging areas: the evaluation of diagnostic tests and biomarkers.Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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