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This Week In CER:
September 3, 2010 |

Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho was quoted in an Inside Health Policy article this week discussing his concerns on the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) plans to build a CER inventory before the creation of the Patient Centered Outcomes and Research Institute, an independent board that will facilitate CER research.

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Tony Coelho discusses patient centered CER in CQ
September 3, 2010 |

The latest addition of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) features an article on comparative effectiveness research (CER) in which Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho weighs in on the issue.

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PIPC Chairman sends letter to HHS on how to best build CER database
August 16, 2010 |

Partnership to Improve Patient Care Chairman Tony Coelho recently sent a letter to Sherry Glied, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recommending that the Agency work closely with the Patient Centered Outcomes and Research Institute when building its planned nationwide CER database.

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What's the Issue

Improving Patient Care

We all need good information to make good decisions about our health, and our health care. Comparative effectiveness research can help us make good health care choices. But it is important to make sure this research isn't misused to make these decisions for us.

The Partnership to Improve Patient Care exists to advance proposals for comparative effectiveness research (CER) that are focused on supporting providers and patients with the information they need, improving health care quality and supporting continued medical progress.

Chairman's Corner

Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care, has been an advocate for patients and patients' groups for nearly four decades. Listen to a greeting from Tony by clicking the video above or read more about his reasons joining PIPC here.

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