title: [The process of application and implementation on methodologies for comparative effectiveness studies].
abstract: Comparative effectiveness research is able to compare the clinical effects of diagnosis and treatment measures effectively, thus providing evidence for making medical decision. In addition that the large-scale clinical randomized controlled trials, cluster randomized trials, quasi-trial, and mathematical models have started to be used in the designing processes of comparative effectiveness research, observational studies on the foundation of electronic medical records have also been paid enough attention. For each research topic, every procedure on the following areas as: generation of a specific piece of evidence, as well as synthesis, communication, translation and application of related data need to have corresponding statistical methods to perform statistical analysis and quality control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Institute of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jing-pu
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D057186:Comparative Effectiveness Research; D006801:Humans