Conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Registration Open: Conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research
The National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality are co-sponsoring a conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research:
December 2-3, 2010
Masur Auditorium
Building 10 (Clinical Center)
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Free Event: Registration Is Required

To register and for more information, visit: http://conferences.thehillgroup.com/CERDecemberConference/about.html

Case Studies and Additional Sessions

The conference will make use of case studies that pose difficult questions about what kinds of research, methods, and analyses should be used to address limitations in current evidence for interventions and tests being examined by decision-making bodies. The cases will address a variety of important comparative effectiveness research questions facing U.S. researchers, care providers, health systems, and patients.

Topics include:
.Comparative effectiveness of surgical and radiotherapy treatments for prostate cancer: Best methods for studying multilevel heterogeneous effects.
.Comparative effectiveness of medical and surgical treatments for stable ischemic heart disease within subgroups of patients and in the face of rapidly evolving treatments.
.Comparative effectiveness and costs of imaging strategies for diagnosing and monitoring patients with cancer.

Evaluation of two high-profile comparative drug safety cases: Aprotinin and Rosiglitazone.
Challenges of designing a “Learning Healthcare Systems” for Comparative Effectiveness Research.

In addition to these case-based discussions, consumers, economists, methodologists, policymakers and statisticians will present two additional sessions:
Methods for Addressing Confounding in Observational Studies.
Value of Information Techniques for Setting Research Priorities.
Conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research