Type: Blackboard Presentation

Level: Basic

Description: Summarize the key motivating forces that led to comparative effectiveness research. Define comparative effectiveness research. Describe the legislation in the United States that has contributed to the growth of comparative effectiveness research. List key methods used in comparative effectiveness research.

Continuing Education Credits: Yes (1 Credit)

Type: Blackboard Presentation

Level: Basic

Description: 1. The role for cost-effetiveness in decision making and how it varies by perspective 2. Why it is important to use incremental outcomes 3. How to choose appropriate comparators 4. Where to draw the line in interpeting results

Continuing Education Credits: Yes (1 Credit)

Type: Online Course

Level: Intermediate

Description: “After completing this lecture, you will be able to: List the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), state how CER extends the principles of EBM, describe a framework for understanding the CER agenda, and identify the stakeholders of CER”.

Type: Resource Webpage

Description: Webpage containing free Comparative Effectiveness Research Training Modules and slides.

Type: PDF Document

Level: Intermediate

Description: This resources contains an executive summary of the Health Economics Common Fund’s webinar conference, Integrating Economic Analysis into NIH Funded Research. 

From the document:

“The purpose of this webinar is to encourage collaboration between biobehavioral investigators and economists so that clinical trials and other studies are designed to promote appropriate and prompt implementation of effective and efficacious interventions. Incorporating health economics expertise on the effects of financial and organizational incentives and constraints on the behavior of various stake holders can expedite implementation of clinical, behavioral, and organizational interventions with proven efficacy in the areas of promoting health and wellbeing.

The featured webinar participants shared an example of a clinical trial to which economic analyses were added. They then explored the value of incorporating an economic perspective from the inception of clinical study design.”

Type: On-demand, streaming presentation with voiceover; duration: 90 min.

Level: Advanced

Description: The final webinar in the 2012 EDM Forum Medical Care Special Supplement Series, addressed methodological considerations for collecting and using electronic clinical data for research and QI. This session presented a data quality assessment framework in multi-site studies to distinguish true variations in care from data quality problems, and described selected conceptual and practical challenges of developing multi-site diabetes and asthma registries. Authors: Jay R. Desai, MPH, HealthPartners; Michael Kahn, Md, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver; Russell E. Glasgow, PhD, National Cancer Institute.

Type: Modules

Level: Intermediate

Description: The modules on this webpage address a variety of topics related to the field of Comparative Effectiveness Research. In each module, examples of analysis methods are presented in a format that allows participants to understand their application and to work through them using their own analysis program.

Type: Online Course

Level: Intermediate

Description: This is an online course of 15 two hour lectures on Comparative Effectiveness Research. “Nationally renowned CER experts describe the current state of CER, define CER tools, and explain state-of-the-art CER methodologies”. CE credit is available.

Type: Webinar

Level: Intermediate

Discription: Overview of procedures and historical progress

Type: Online Course

Level: Advanced

Description: “After completing this lecture, you will be able to:
Show how the probability of a diagnosis is affected by a test result, sensitivity, and specificity
Describe how evidence can be integrated using decision trees
Illustrate the concept of threshold probabilities and their implications
Discuss how sensitivity analyses are performed and what they mean
Explain how patient preferences (utilities or values) can be integrated into patient-centered choices using decision analysis
Identify different types of economic analyses in comparative effectiveness research
Explain how to calculate incremental cost-effectiveness
List how cost-effectiveness analysis is being used for technology assessment”