title: [Overview of design, implementation and analysis of comparative effectiveness research].
abstract: Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has been regarded as a hot topic in health care recently. Many medicalresearchers currently deem CER as a potential powerful instrument for improving the quality of healthcare and cut medical cost. However, in the past, classic efficacy studies are always focusing on comparing one new intervention with placebo under complete controlled environment. Now CER turns to comparing different interventions directly in real world of routine practice. This article reviewed a series of literature about the design, implementation and analysis of CER in order to give a clue for Chinese medicine researchers in future.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China. okfrom2008@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Yan-Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D057186:Comparative Effectiveness Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic