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in the Medicare administrative databases makes them inadequate to adjust for case mix, to ascertain risk, or to determine the effectiveness of prevention, treatment, or rehabilitation interventions. These limitations, among others, emphasize the importance of developing strategies to acquire needed outcome and health and functional status data, either for the standard data sets themselves or for special projects and studies.
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Problems of patients, practitioners, and payers are addressed from a very broad perspective. Effectiveness research, done well, will have several benefits beyond its immediate scope: it will generate hypotheses for clinical and biomedical studies; it will provide a focusing mechanism for such research that is derived from the epidemiology of disease and its treatment, not simply from the science base; and it will stimulate a more comprehensive orientation to research that will in turn support clinical practice.
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