Research progress toward patient-centered guidelines for use in dealing with health care insurance.

It took my first husband over a month, out of the very few he had left, to get the MRI he needed for his doctor to figure out why his back hurt.

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New, Patient-Centered, Treatment-Effectiveness research underway: An interview with Joe Selby, executive director of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

"Our mission is to provide useful information that is helpful to patients and their caregivers and clinicians in making medical care decisions. The key things we focus on are questions that patients and clinicians think are important. We want to involve them in the process of doing research and then disseminate information from that research. The novel part of what we were doing is taking substantial guidance from patients. "