The ''Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research'' is a
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
that was established in 2012 and is published by Future Medicine. The
editors-in-chief
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are
Sheldon Greenfield (
University of California, Irvine
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) and
Eugene Rich (
Mathematica Policy Research
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). The journal covers all aspects of
comparative effectiveness research
Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the direct comparison of existing health care interventions to determine which work best for which patients and which pose the greatest benefits and harms. The core question of comparative effectiveness r ...
, including
patient-centered outcomes
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research,
pharmacoeconomics
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and
health economics
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, relating to diagnostics, therapeutics, surgical procedures, or other healthcare services or options.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
EMBASE/
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,
EMCare
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,
Index Medicus
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/
MEDLINE
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/
PubMed
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,
Science Citation Index Expanded
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, and
Scopus
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. According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2016
impact factor
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of 1.204, ranking it 75th out of 90 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services".
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