Talk:Outcomes research

Need more references
This article needs to be more densely referenced. -- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC) {Yeah. But it's provocative. MaynardClark (talk) 18:10, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Cost-effectiveness of outcomes research
Recently (12/29/2015), this sentence was removed:
 * Unproven cost-effectiveness: Ironically, no one has measured whether spending money on outcome studies improves medical care, compared to funding research directly on the underlying conditions.

I question the rationale for the deletion.

Do DALYs and QALYs not consider cost when informing policy about other possible 'public spending' (education, infrastructure investments, renewable energy, climate planning, etc.)? Might one instead say:
 * Cost-effectiveness: Measuring the utility, specifically relative cost-effectiveness, of outcome studies is challenging.

Don't some researchers worry that their research might not be effectively translated into improved evidence-based practice?

MaynardClark (talk) 17:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)