Using Translational Science, Comparative Effectiveness Research to Create a Patient Care Movement
It sounds like a straightforward solution that everyone on all sides of the healthcare debate can get behind: treat patients based on evidence that shows the best outcome for a given cost. The reality is that the simple promise of evidence based medicine - first introduced by healthcare industry leaders and the federal government in the 1970s - has been mired in a stew of issues ranging from political to financial to philosophical for the past three decades. But researchers supported by The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) have just launched a training program to teach today's clinicians Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) - the art and science of utilizing new and existing data to help improve decision making and outcomes.