{"id":1017,"date":"2012-11-12T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:04:58","slug":"why-studies-that-compare-treatments-lack-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Why Studies That Compare Treatments Lack Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times,\u00a0 Doctor and Patient, November 8, 2012, By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Comparative effectiveness\u201d studies, which compare one treatment for a particular illness against another to determine which works better, have received a lot of attention and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/recovery\/programs\/os\/cerbios.html\">billions of dollars<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deloitte.com\/assets\/Dcom-UnitedStates\/Local%20Assets\/Documents\/Health%20Reform%20Issues%20Briefs\/US_CHS_ComparativeEffectivenessResearchintheUS_062711.pdf\">federal support<\/a> in the last few years. But when I mentioned comparative effectiveness research recently to a colleague who I know is particularly interested in treatments and the clinical trials behind them, he let out a loud snort and guffaw before I even finished saying the words.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/08\/why-studies-that-compare-treatments-lack-impact\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times,\u00a0 Doctor and Patient, November 8, 2012, By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Comparative effectiveness\u201d studies, which compare one treatment for a particular illness against another to determine which <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1017\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[483,168,446,481,482],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-comparative-effectiveness","tag-medical-overtreatment","tag-overtreatment","tag-patient-centered-outcomes-research-institute","tag-pcori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}