Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both the individual and population ...

Phylogenetic comparative methods encompass a suite of statistical and computational approaches that leverage evolutionary trees to infer the history and drivers of trait variation across species. By ...

There is an increasing need for reliable information on the relative value of medical interventions to assist decision making on both the individual and public health levels; addressing this need is ...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 has placed renewed focus on assessing the comparative effectiveness of various therapeutic options. Unfortunately, all ...