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1 Introduction
Pages 9-12

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... —David Blumenthal, Institute of Medicine Workshop, 1990 OUTCOMES RESEARCH The term outcomes research—sometimes called effectiveness research. evaluative clinical science, or clinical evaluation—has come into common usage in the health care community to describe an approach to clinical research that has lately received increased emphasis.
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From page 10...
... Recognizing the potential of these methods of health services research, the Department of Health and Human SeIvices sought and received congressional appropriations beginning in fiscal year 1989 for outcomes research and particularly for the establishment of the patient outcomes research teams (PORTs) described in this report.
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From page 11...
... The committee met three times from April to October 1990 and commissioned six background papers on topics that covered the structure and methods of PORTs and potential sources of bias; a comparison of PORT and clinical research; a review of conflict-of-interest regulation in biomedical science; the possible impact of PORTs on health services research, technology innovation, and payment policy; and PORT research from provider and industry perspectives. In June 1990, the committee convened a one-and-a-half-day workshop with some 60 invited participants who also brought extensive expertise and offered wide-ranging views.
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From page 12...
... Chapter 6 outlines suggestions and other points for consideration by PORTs and their home institutions, AHCPR, the health services research community, industry, and Congress. Appendices to the report include the scenarios discussed at the June workshop, the rapporteur summaries of those discussions, and several of the background papers and presentations.
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