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Comparative effectiveness research: Challenges for medical journals.
This month's Editorial, a collaborative statement by editors from Medical Decision Making, Trials, The Cochrane Library, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and PLoS Medicine, calls for standards in the conduct and reporting of comparative effectiveness research (CER). To optimize health outcomes within the constraints of inevitably limited resources, low- and high-income countries alike require unbiased means of assessing health care interventions for their relative effectiveness. Providing specific principles and standards for CER, the journal editors emphasize that researchers must adopt stringent methods, and medical journals must maintain high criteria for ethics, scientific rigor, and reporting, in order to fulfill the potential of research to improve decision making in health care. This statement has also been endorsed by the editors of Journal of General Internal Medicine, The American Journal of Managed Care, Clinical and Translational Science, and Croatian Medical Journal, and will be co-published in Medical Decision Making, Croatian Medical Journal, The Cochrane Library, Trials, The American Journal of Managed Care, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Image Credit: Collage created by Katie Hickling, PLoS. Original images by southerntabitha, taberandrew, FeatheredTar, Seattle Municipal Archives, VinceHuang, jen_rab, isafmedia, and dbdbrobot, all on flickr.com.
Citation: (2010) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 7(4) April 2010. PLoS Med 7(4): ev07.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v07.i04
Published: April 27, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This month's Editorial, a collaborative statement by editors from Medical Decision Making, Trials, The Cochrane Library, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and PLoS Medicine, calls for standards in the conduct and reporting of comparative effectiveness research (CER). To optimize health outcomes within the constraints of inevitably limited resources, low- and high-income countries alike require unbiased means of assessing health care interventions for their relative effectiveness. Providing specific principles and standards for CER, the journal editors emphasize that researchers must adopt stringent methods, and medical journals must maintain high criteria for ethics, scientific rigor, and reporting, in order to fulfill the potential of research to improve decision making in health care. This statement has also been endorsed by the editors of Journal of General Internal Medicine, The American Journal of Managed Care, Clinical and Translational Science, and Croatian Medical Journal, and will be co-published in Medical Decision Making, Croatian Medical Journal, The Cochrane Library, Trials, The American Journal of Managed Care, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Image Credit: Collage created by Katie Hickling, PLoS. Original images by southerntabitha, taberandrew, FeatheredTar, Seattle Municipal Archives, VinceHuang, jen_rab, isafmedia, and dbdbrobot, all on flickr.com.