What is Comparative Effectiveness Research?: http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/what-is-comparative-effectiveness-research1/
I’ve been tracking the Comparative Effectiveness Research hashtag in Twitter for a while. You will have seen tweets from that stream here earlier in this HOTW series of post. The hashtag is #CER, by the way, but unfortunately it is used for many other topics as well — Carbon Emissions Reduction, Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, food conversations in Turkish, and some sort of technology gadget topic that I haven’t figured out. Ah.
Luckily, the #CER tag when used in the health context has a number of other hashtags with which it is often associated. #eGEMS, #PCOR, #PCORI, and #QI are the most common used companion hashtags, but there are others as well.
Great blog on #eGEMs and its efforts to advance #CER, #PCOR, & #QIow.ly/h6B8v @davidraths
— EDM Forum (@edm_ah) January 24, 2013
#eGEMS = Generating Evidence and Methods to improve patient outcomes
@academhealthgmu hey have you heard about #eGEMs? RT @edm_ah Journal on data driven #CER, #QI & #PCOR ow.ly/gR
— Priscilla Novak (@priscillanovak) January 24, 2013
#PCOR = Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
@pcori @tennessean child w/mental illness related to school performance great ex. of potential for #PCOR -people should get involved!
— jaye bea smalley (@jbsmalley) January 22, 2013
#PCORI = Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Expressions of Interest due Feb 28 for Canada’s Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Networks bit.ly/V1XAfI @cihr_irsc #CBPR #PCORI
— CES Partnership (@CESPartnership) January 21, 2013
Check out this helpful guide on securing #PCORI funding, from the 1/8 UCSF Comparative Effectiveness Research Symposium ow.ly/gWEMb
— ImSatCTSI (@ImSatCTSI) January 18, 2013
#QI = Quality Improvement (also “Quite Interesting”)
An important study from #CMS: Association between #QI for care transitions and rehospitalization bit.ly/WU1cjB #medicare
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) January 23, 2013
Use data for mental health #QI or #research?The mental health minimum dataset (MHMDS) to release data monthly @nhsic tinyurl.com/ako7a8s
— Sam McIntyre (@blackmoonsam) January 25, 2013
One of the things that makes it easier to track the health side of the #CER tag is that the CER community has volunteers (National Pharmaceutical Council) who find the stream so valuable they curate, collate, and archive the most relevant tweets from each week, along with brief comments on the high points from each week.
#JAMA article, #PCORI mtg 2/4, new journal in #CER Tweets of Week ft @academyhealth @survgaze @ivsin more bit.ly/hOMDwm
— NPC (@npcnow) January 24, 2013
That JAMA article they mentioned? Was actually a 2009 classic from NEJM.
@allendoumamd RT @chronicpaingps The Patient Experience and Health Outcomes – @nejm goo.gl/zohtL #hcsm #PCORI
— Elin Silveous (@ElinSilveous) January 21, 2013
But there was a JAMA article in the collection from the previous week. And an impressive one, too!
JAMA | How to Decide Whether a Clinical Practice Guideline Is TrustworthyClinical Practice Guidelines jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?a… #EBM
— Rich Taggart (@richtagg) January 10, 2013
Yesterday, our team here at the Taubman Health Sciences Library had a journal club to talk about a classic article on #CER.
Journal club here on Schumock & Pickard #CER 2009 article ajhp.org/content/66/14/…
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) January 24, 2013
That conversation had us looking beyond the issues of CER as a research methodology, and into the foundation of why and how the methodology developed, the purposes it is designed to serve, when and why to choose CER over another methodology such as systematic reviews, the implications of CER for the EVidence-Based Healthcare movement, the strengths and weaknesses of CER compared to other methodologies, and much more. It was a very valuable and interesting hour well spent.
Of course, we aren’t the only ones asking these types of questions about #CER — The FDA, the New York Times, among others.
Great #FDA perspective on problems and opportunities in comparative effectiveness research fda.gov/Drugs/NewsEven… #pharma #clinicaltrials #CER
— Paul Ivsin (@ivsin) January 18, 2013
NYT’s Well blog examines annual physicals:nyti.ms/10fzvE7#healthcosts #CER #epatient #health
— WhatsTheRealCost.org (@therealcost) January 21, 2013
Thus, you see me inspired today to dig into the #CER stream and explore more about what is there. One very timely notice is the webinar on Monday, next week.
Grab lunch at your desk at 12 pm on 1/28& listen to the #PCORI #patient-researcher matching challenge webinarbit.ly/VlW11u #CER
— NPC (@npcnow) January 24, 2013
And an upcoming conference at UCSF on using CER to make healthcare more relevant.
CTSI Comparative Effectiveness Research symposium focuses on making health care #research more relevant ow.ly/h4jcs #UCSF #CER
— CTSI at UCSF (@CTSIatUCSF) January 23, 2013
One of my colleagues also mentioned an upcoming campus event focusing on chronic diseases, so this was interesting and relevant to that.
AHRQ reviews impact of case management for chronic illness management. View findings here: go.usa.gov/gS3V #CER
— AHRQ (@AHRQNews) January 18, 2013
The #CER stream seems to contain a regular number of high quality research articles. Definitely worth exploring.
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