Journal article

A model for incorporating patient and stakeholder voices in a learning health care network: Washington State's Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network

Emily Beth Devine, Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho, Allison Devlin, Todd C Edwards, Ellen T Farrokhi, Larry Kessler, Danielle C Lavallee, Donald L Patrick, Sean D Sullivan, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, N David Yanez, David R Flum

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2013

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the inaugural comparative effectiveness research (CER) cohort study of Washington State's Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network (CERTAIN), which compares invasive with noninvasive treatments for peripheral artery disease, and to focus on the patient centeredness of this cohort study by describing it within the context of a newly published conceptual framework for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The peripheral artery disease study was selected because of clinician-identified uncertainty in treatment selection and differences in desired outcomes between patients and clinicians. Patient centeredness is achieved through..

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Funding Acknowledgements

Support and Financial Disclosure Declaration: This work is supported by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grant Number 1 R01 HS 20025-01: Enhanced Registries for Quality Improvement and Comparative Effectiveness Research (Principal Investigator [PI]: D.R.F.) to the authors E.B.D., R.A.-C., A.D., T.C.E., E.T.F., L.K., D.L.P., S.D.S., P.T.-H., N.D.Y., and D.R.F. and by the Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund (PI: D.R.F.). P.T.-H. was also supported by National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources Grant UL1TR000423.