"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale" – Rudolf Virchow
Tuesday September 7th 2010

‘Comparative Effectiveness’ Archives

Cost Effectiveness / Comparative Effectiveness: Rationing or Priority Setting?

“My question . . . is how can we get our policy makers and legislatures . . . to better use data [...]

Generics vs. Brand-Name Drugs

As authorized by the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act, generic drugs must be demonstrated to be [...]

Competence and capacity: the right practitioner for the right procedure?

British researchers conducted a pragmatic, randomized trial aiming to compare the effectiveness of [...]

A Policy Prescription for 2009

As a new dawn embraces the United States of America, President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress [...]