Practice-Based Evidence Study Design for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Medical CarePublished 1 October 2007
Susan D. Horn, Julie Gassaway
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Outcomes improved when practices associated with better outcomes in PBE-CPI analyses were adopted in practice and can uncover better practices more quickly than randomized controlled trials or sophisticated statistical methods, while achieving many of the same advantages.
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Outcomes improved when practices associated with better outcomes in PBE-CPI analyses were adopted in practice.
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