"Wise Policy" Needed To Link Comparative Effectiveness with Individualized Medicine

As comparative effectiveness matures from a political rallying cry and budget strategy to a process that the medical community will have to face as a new force with more financial and public support, the most thoughtful people in medicine are trying to find a way to understand the term and how it fits into other trends. It's not easy, even for them.

One of the toughest issues in the march to comparative effectiveness for is how to reconcile the search for the greatest effect on the largest number or people with the best effect for small groups of people.

There will be no easy solutions, but just getting the thinking and images for describing effective comparative effectiveness is an...

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