Background Healthcare decisionmaking is a complex process relying on disparate types of
evidence and value judgments. Our objectives for this study were to develop a practical …

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 …

Abstract The United States leads the world in many measures of health care innovation.
However, it has been criticized to lag behind many developed nations in important health …

Background. Health care decision making is complex and requires efficient and explicit
processes to ensure transparency and consistency of factors considered. Objectives. To pilot …

Objectives To test and further develop a healthcare policy and clinical decision support
framework using growth hormone (GH) for Turner syndrome (TS) as a complex case study …

Background: Health technology reassessment (HTR) is “a structured, evidence-based
assessment of the clinical, social, ethical, and economic effects of a technology currently …

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The cost of cancer drugs continues to escalate with the rapid development and approval of
novel therapies, especially over the course of the last decade. In human epidermal growth …

Abstract Background: The Common Drug Review (CDR) was created to provide a single
process to review the comparative clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness of new drugs, and …

Spurred by a desire to improve quality of care and to understand the relative value of
medical treatments, there has been a recent surge of interest in publicly funded comparative …