Article: Lewin Group Report Urges Alignment of Comparative Effectiveness Research and Personalized Medicine.

The Lewin Group Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research released a report prepared for the Personalized Medicine Coalition describing how comparative effectiveness research (CER) can be designed, conducted, and reported to better align with personalized medicine, achieving a synergy toward improved patient outcomes. While CER has been oriented largely toward evaluating treatment effects across study populations, personalized medicine focuses on using individuals' genomic information and other personal traits to inform decisions about their health care. It is essential that these emerging initiatives evolve to complement, not contradict, each other (see also The Lewin ...

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