Health Systems, Heuristics, and Comparative Effectiveness Research

Robert H. Brook

ResearchPosted on rand.org Oct 1, 2012Published In: Journal of General Internal Medicine, v. 28, no. 2, Feb. 2013, p. 172-173

Information produced by comparative effectiveness research will be hard to use appropriately because context and emotion often dominate a patient's rational decisionmaking and because therapies are provided in different health care environments, making small differences between therapies basically meaningless.

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  • Copyright: Society of General Internal Medicine
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2013
  • Pages: 2
  • Document Number: EP-51109

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