8 September 2015 - Although consumers and governments regularly make decisions on the basis of both informal and rigorous cost-effectiveness analyses, it is well recognized that we do not let cost-effectiveness get in the way of how medicine is practiced in the United States. In fact, the key comparative-effectiveness research entity in the United States, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, states on its Web site that it does not consider cost-effectiveness to be an outcome of direct importance to patients.

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