Objectives Resource allocation is a challenging issue faced by health policy decisionmakers
requiring careful consideration of many factors. Objectives of this study were to identify …

Purpose–It is commonly recognized that the setting of health priorities requires value
judgements and that these judgements are social. Justifying social value judgements is an …

Aims: Stakeholder engagement is fundamental to comparative effectiveness research
(CER), but lacks consistent terminology. This paper aims to define stakeholder engagement …

Context National public insurance for drugs is often based on evidence of comparative
effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. This study describes how that evidence has been used …

Context: The terms evidence‐based medicine (EBM), health technology assessment (HTA),
comparative effectiveness research (CER), and other related terms lack clarity and so could …

If'prevention is better than cure', why isn't policy more preventive? Policymakers only have
the ability to pay attention to, and influence, a tiny proportion of their responsibilities, and …

Fewer than half of new drugs have data on their comparative benefits and harms against
existing treatment options at the time of regulatory approval in Europe and the USA. Even …

This article reviews and evaluates recent comparative social science scholarship on
healthcare systems. We focus on four of the strongest themes in current research:(a) the …

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WHAT WE GATHER — INFORMATION FOR IMPROVED CARE The Medical Journal of …

The high cost of the US health care system does not buy uniformly high quality of care.
Concern about low quality has prompted two major types of public policy responses …