On this page
- Training and References
- Resource Guides and Best Practices
- Conducting Pubmed Searches for CER
- Other Resources
Training and References
- Online courses on CER methods are offered by:
- Tufts CTSI
- UC Davis CTSA
- Ohio State University College of Public Health and CCTS
- University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences
- Online courses and materials about patient and stakeholder engagement are available through
- Health Affairs' videos and related content on patient engagement
- AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program offers web-based CME programs on the comparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for different clinical conditions.
- The Center for Medical Technology and Policy offers a variety of white papers and presentations on various aspects of CER.
- Pragmatic clinical trials
- A brief primer and resources on pragmatic clinical trials from the Center for Medical Technology Policy
Resource Guides and Best Practices
- PCORI Methodology Standards and Report (pdf)
- GRACE principles (best practices for the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of observational CER studies).
- Methods guides for conducting comparative effectiveness assessments and reviews (AHRQ)
- A user's guide to registries to improve patient outcomes (AHRQ)
- Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews (Institute of Medicine)
Conducting Pubmed Searches for CER
- The National Library of Medicine has created search tools and other resources to support literature searches for CER.
- Search tools: PubMed
- Other resources
Other Resources
Compendia of resources and programs:
- Effective Health Care Program (AHRQ's umbrella program for CER)
- CER resources from the National Cancer Institute
- CER resources from the National Library of Medicine
- CER resources from Academy Health
- CER resources from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
- CER resources from the ECRI Institute
Collaborations, research centers, and research networks:
- Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum for Comparative Effectiveness Research: A forum to facilitate learning and collaboration across a set of CER projects designed to build infrastructure and methods for collecting and analyzing prospective electronic clinical data
- Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs)
- DARTNet
- Centers for Primary Care Practice-Based Research and Learning
Data sources:
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grants On-Line Database
- Society of General Internal Medicine Research Dataset Compendium: Descriptions of and links to high-value publicly available research datasets
- Roadmap K12 Data Resource Center: Descriptions of and links to publicly available research datasets