Conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Registration Open for Conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research

AHRQ and the National Institutes of Health are cosponsoring a conference on “Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research” to be held on December 2 - 3 on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. 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 decisionmaking 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 “Learning Healthcare Systems.”
- In addition to the case-based discussions noted above, 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


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Conference on Methodological Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research