Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research AHRQ

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – To improve health outcomes by providing evidence to enhance medical decisions made by patients and their medical providers. This goal is pursued by generating research comparing different interventions an…

ARRA Prevention Research Centers Comparative Effectiveness Research Program

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – To support Prevention Research Centers (PRCs) to perform comparative effectiveness research (CER) that compares innovative public health strategies or interventions, in new settings or populations (such a…

ARRA Accelerating Adoption of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)

Office of the Secretary – Comparative effectiveness research is the conduct and synthesis of research comparing the benefits and harms of different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor health conditions in “real world…

ARRA – Community Health Applied Research Network

Health Resources and Services Administration – To provide infrastructure support for consortia of safety net* providers and academic institutions to develop the capacity to undertake community-based comparative effectiveness research (CER). It is an…