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Clinical Research

Clinical Research

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Research is Essential to Create the Future

This is a broad term that can be applied to clinical trials to test out new drugs, or a wide variety of comparative research topics o look at how one approach to a problem may be better than another in improving the quality of care or reducing costs.

Healthcare outcomes such as overall survival or quality of life are the end results of a complex interaction between the patient, treatment and the healthcare system.

Research may identify superior interventions but their dissemination and changing the behavior of healthcare providers is challenging

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Making Medicine More Scientific: Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research–What Consumers will Need to Know to Make Future Care and Purchasing Decisions

Joseph D. Jackson, PhD
Program Director, Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research, and Associate Professor
Jefferson School of Population Health
Philadelphia., Pa

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