Timing was key, Steven Pearson says, when he founded the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review in 2007.
Steven Pearson's Take On Comparative Effectiveness Research
By Mark Hollmer
Timing was key, Steven Pearson says, when he founded the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review in 2007.
"At the time, there was a growing realization that there was a dearth of good evidence available from what would be considered objective, independent sources for use by patients, clinics and payers," says Pearson, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and the institute's president.
Pearson formed ICER, an academic research group housed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, to meet that need. He asserts that his approach - which rates interventions according to their clinical effectiveness and comparative value - produces results that are more understandable and useful to health care decision makers than many of the "technically dense" reports often seen.
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