Health Technology Assessments Should Help Prioritize CER – Journal Authors
Executive Summary
While health technology assessment’s role primarily is to aid clinical and policy decision-making, it also has the potential to help prioritize the comparative effectiveness research agenda as well as inform trial designs, according to a recent article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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