Ongoing efforts to conduct research and develop tools to support evidence-based decision-making have taken on a renewed sense of urgency amidst the debate over rising health care costs, a debate that ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

We spend 18 percent of our national gross domestic product on health care. As health care spending continues to grow and as we appropriately drive the health care system toward a payment system that ...