CDC - October 2018 Edition - Public Health Law News - Public Health Law

CDC - October 2018 Edition - Public Health Law News - Public Health Law

Legal and Ethical Framework to Use Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) is a type of comparative effectiveness research (CER) that prioritizes consideration of outcomes important to individual patients: risks and potential benefits of treatment, quality of life, the range of treatment options, etc. However, allowing CDC’s data to be used for PCOR introduces some specific legal and ethical challenges. This paper offers a framework to navigate those challenges. It organizes the tools CDC needs to make decisions about how its data can best serve the public and advance the agency’s mission to support safer, healthier people.

Legal and Ethical Framework to Use Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.[PDF – 109KB]Patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) is a type of comparative effectiveness research (CER) that prioritizes consideration of outcomes important to individual patients: risks and potential benefits of treatment, quality of life, the range of treatment options, etc. However, allowing CDC’s data to be used for PCOR introduces some specific legal and ethical challenges. This paper offers a framework to navigate those challenges. It organizes the tools CDC needs to make decisions about how its data can best serve the public and advance the agency’s mission to support safer, healthier people.

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New Publication: Exploring Tax Policy to Advance Population Health, Health Equity, and Economic Prosperity. The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has published a resource that explains how tax policies can affect population health objectives.

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Preemption Watch Tools. Grassroots Change has published a series of tools that allow for tracking and countering preemption in public health, with the support of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

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Surgeon General’s Call to Action: “Community Health and Prosperity.” CDC is inviting interested persons or organizations to submit written views, recommendations, and data about the connection between community health and prosperity, business investment in local community health, investment strategies, the role of a healthy workforce in business success, and contributions of local policy makers toward community development.