Comparative effectiveness research: what effects for nurses?
America's present level of health care spending is unsustainable. The rising costs of health care would be less concerning if there was evidence suggesting that more spending made Americans healthier; the evidence, however, suggests otherwise. The purpose of this article is to describe one tool that can potentially address quality and cost concerns for all health care professionals, including critical-care nurses.
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA. Emily.a.Largent@gmail.com
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