By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Neil Lawrence. We created a guide to the work that NHS Digital does with data and described this within the…
By Foley, Vale. Abstract Introduction Recent decades have seen a focus on quality in healthcare. Quality has been viewed across 6 dimensions—safe, effective, patient-centred, timely,…
By Tom Foley. Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Consultant Nephrologist, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Associate Lecturer, Cambridge University Hospitals In 2014, CUH became the first UK…
By Tom Foley. Dr Ingrid Wolfe, Consultant in children’s public health medicine and Programme Director of Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP) Background to…
By Tom Foley. Dr Clare Relton, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield How do you define a Learning Health System? One that learns from…
By Dr Tom Foley. Background Dr Gerry Morrow is Medical Director of Clarity Informatics, who aim to improve patient care and outcomes using data and…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees is a GP by background, and Founder of Outcomes Based Healthcare. He trained in…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Caleb Stowell is Vice President, Research and Development, at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM);…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Dr Eric Brown Dr Eric Brown is Director of Watson Technologies at the IBM T.J. Watson Research…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Dr Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine (DPM) at Harvard Medical School…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Professor Platt is Chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Professor Charles Friedman is Chair of the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background David W. Bates, MD, MSc, is Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer for Brigham and Women’s…
By Dr Tom Foley, Dr Fergus Fairmichael. Background Paul Wallace, MD, is Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Clinical Translation at Optum Labs.…
By Christopher A. Longhurst, Robert A. Harrington and Nigam H. Shah. Abstract Randomized controlled trials have traditionally been the gold standard against which all other…
By Faden, Ruth R., Tom L. Beauchamp, and Nancy E. Kass. Abstract Interest in learning health care systems and in comparative-effectiveness research (CER) is…
By Richesson RL, Hammond WE, Nahm M, et al. Abstract Widespread sharing of data from electronic health records and patient-reported outcomes can strengthen the…
By Faden, Ruth, et al. Abstract Background:Electronic clinical data (ECD) will increasingly serve as an important source of information for comparative effectiveness research (CER). Although…
By Yu, M., Xie, D., Wang, X., Weiner, M. G. and Tannen, R. L. ABSTRACTPurposeThe purpose of this study was to evaluate a statistical method,…
By Greenfield, S. and R. Platt Abstract “It is the position of this Task Force that rigorous well designed and well executed Observational Studies (OS)…
By Berger, M. L., et al. Abstract OBJECTIVE: In both the United States and Europe there has been an increased interest in using comparative effectiveness…
By Jennifer Frankovich, M.D., Christopher A. Longhurst, M.D., and Scott M. Sutherland, M.D. Abstract Pediatricians facing critical clinical decisions often lack data on which to draw.…
By Tannen Richard L, Weiner Mark G, Xie Dawei. Abstract Objectives To determine whether observational studies that use an electronic medical record database can provide…
By Sanson-Fisher, R. W., et al. Abstract Population- and systems-based interventions need evaluation, but the randomized controlled trial (RCT) research design has significant limitations when…
By Johnston, S. C., et al. Abstract BACKGROUND: Few attempts have been made to estimate the public return on investment in medical research. The total…
By Rothwell, P. M. Abstract In making treatment decisions, doctors and patients must take into account relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews. Relevance…
By Mann, C. J. Abstract Cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies are collectively referred to as observational studies. Often these studies are the only practicable…
By Helms, P. J. Abstract Although the explanatory clinical therapeutic trial remains the foundation for assessing drug efficacy and is required for licensing purposes, the…
By Sibbald, B. and M. Roland. Abstract Randomised controlled trials are the most rigorous way of determining whether a cause-effect relation exists between treatment and…
By Black, N. Abstract The view is widely held that experimental methods (randomised controlled trials) are the “gold standard” for evaluation and that observational methods…