US Websites

• The ARHQ Effective Healthcare Program Stakeholder Guide Publication No 11-EHCO69-EF July 2012
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a federal agency focused on research on health care quality. Its Effective Healthcare Program focuses on comparing outcomes and effectiveness of different treatments and clinical approaches, as well as on the dissemination of those findings. Its site provides a definition of CER and provides a significant amount of information on conducting systematic reviews.
• Robert Wood Johnson Resources for Communities on Consumer Engagement (from RWJ)
• The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (P-CORI)
P-CORI is a non-profit agency funded through ARRA to promote stakeholder engaged CER.
• The Center for Medical Technology Policy
A non-profit organization that brings disparate health care stake holders together to build consensus on practical models for comparative effectiveness research.
• ECRI Institute
Undertaken systematic reviews of clinical procedures using meta-analysis for the Medicare program, other federal and state agencies and clinical specialty organizations.
• Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program
Funded through the National Institutes of Health, recognized the importance of CER research and identified the promotion of high quality CER as one of its five strategic goals in 2009.
• Cochrane & Campbell
• Center for Disease Control
• National Institutes of Health
• Institute Of Medicine
• Deloitte Center for health Solutions Report
• The Tufts Clinical and translational Science Institute recently provided a course on CER. To view that course, click here.

Academy Health CER materials

• http://www.hsrmethods.org/SuggestedReadings/Journal%20Articles/Comparative%20Effectiveness.aspx
• http://www.academyhealth.org/Training/ResourceDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=2117
• http://www.academyhealth.org/Training/ResourceDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=2995&navItemNumber=2569

If you are interested in becoming a research participant

• http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
• http://clinicaltrials.ifpma.org
• http://www.researchmatch.org

International Websites

• UK: People In Research
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
• The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
• Institute For Quality and Efficiency in health Care
• Australia Pharmacy Benefits Advisory Committee

Stakeholder Engagement

• The Cochrane Collaboration's 2012 evidence synthesis entitled Methods of Consumer Involvement in developing Healthcare, Policy and Research, Clinical Practice Guidelines, and Patient Information Material.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Policy's evidence synthesis on Community-based Participatory Research.

Classic references on Community-based Participatory Research

Israel BA, Schulz AJ, Parker EA, Becker AB. (1998). Review of Community-Based Research: Assessing Partnership Approaches to Improve Public Health. Annual Review of Public Health 19: 173-202.

Minkler M, Wallerstein N. (Eds.) (2003). Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. To receive a 15% discount, order through the CCPH website: http://www.ccph.info