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Cross Design Synthesis: A New Strategy for Medical Effectiveness Research

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 17, 1992
Report No. PEMD-92-18
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Summary:

With the establishment of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in 1989, Congress launched an "effectiveness initiative" intended to improve the quality of health care through research-based development of national guidelines for medical practice. Credible guidelines require research results that are both scientifically valid and relevant to the conditions of medical practice. The elusiveness of such information, however, is becoming increasingly apparent, and the task facing the new agency is a difficult one. This report assesses ways to determine how well medical treatments actually work and presents a new strategy--"cross design synthesis"--for medical effectiveness research.

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