How best to engage patients, doctors, and other stakeholders in designing comparative effectiveness studies

Health Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1834-1841

  Hoffman, Ari ^a   Montgomery, Russ ^b   Aubry, Wade ^a   Tunis, Sean R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Medical Technology Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; UNITED STATES;

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952118534     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0675     Document Type: Article

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