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2025-2026 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Jun 30, 2026
 
2025-2026 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
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CLRES 2107 - COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH AND PCOR


Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course will define Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and Patient-centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) and highlight the history and current national efforts in promoting CER/PCOR for drugs, devices and other interventions. The curriculum will include topics on the conceptualization, outcome measurements, engagement of patients and stakeholders, study designs, and analysis methods used in CER/PCOR studies. The course is project based and students learn how to define their own CER/PCOR research question and design a research project to answer the question.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Medical Education (CERT-Master’s or MS), Clinical Research (CERT-Master’s or MS), Clinical and Translational Sci (PHD)


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