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Refocusing on Health Care Opportunities That Can Make a Real Impact

Kenneth Thorpe | Posted 11.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Chronic Disease, Pcori, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, Kenneth Thorpe, Chronic Disease Prevention, Health Care, Politics News
Kenneth Thorpe

Our health care system in this country is quite adept at treating people who have a single disease. We don't have an effective set of best practices, or an essential foundation of research, to know how to take care of those who are coping with more than one condition.

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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Should Focus on High-Impact Problems That Can Be Solved Quickly

Harold C. Sox, M.D. | Posted 12.29.2012 | Home
Read More: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Affordable Care Act, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Pcori, Home News
Harold C. Sox, M.D.

Given that the pace of clinical research is measured in years, and clinical practice changes even more slowly, how should PCORI respond to its impending deadline?

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Top 10 for Integrative Medicine Policy and Action in 2011

John Weeks | Posted 02.27.2012 | Politics
Read More: Integrative Oncology, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Top 10, Pcori, Integrative Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Trends 2011, Intrer-Professional Education, Integrative Medicine, Nccam, Politics News
John Weeks

A good friend has warned me that my annual exploration of the year's highlights for integrative medicine in the form of a Top 10 is "too much inside baseball." I thought I'd let you decide. The year was a good one for integrative medicine.

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