Cooperative Studies

Featured: HERC's Annual Report

• Report of the Health Economics Resource Center to the VA Cooperative Studies Program

  Date: 7/30/2007 | Size: 375Kb

The VA Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) conducts multi-site randomized clinical trials of innovations in health care. The Health Economics Resource Center (HERC) is the economic coordinating center for CSP. HERC coordinates the evaluation of new CSP studies to determine which should include an economic analysis. HERC economists help plan, implement, and analyze data from trials coordinated by all five CSP statistical coordinating centers. HERC provides the primary economist to trials coordinated by the Boston, Palo Alto, and West Haven centers. HERC also makes improvements to the VA economics infrastructure needed by CSP.

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Investigator	Title	Study No.	Start	End
Smith	Integrating Clinical Practice Guidelines for Smoking Cessation into Mental Heatlh Care for Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Economic Analysis	CSP 519	9/1/2004	9/30/2009
Smith	Intensive vs. Conventional Renal Support in Acute Renal Failure	CSP 530	9/1/2003	3/31/2009
Phibbs	The Home International Normalized Ratio (INR) Monitor Study (THINRS)	CSP 481	8/1/2003	3/30/2009
Barnett	Preference Measurement for Trial-Based Economic Evaluations	CSP 146	7/1/2003	6/30/2005
Wagner	Radial Artery vs. Saphenous Vein Grafts in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery	CSP 474	10/1/2001	9/30/2005
Yu	Tri-National Trial 1: Options In Management with Anti-Retrovirals (OPTIMA) (Economics Sub-study)	CSP 512-e	1/6/2001	5/30/2006
Barnett	Clinical Outcomes, Revascularization & Aggressive Evaluation (Courage)	CSP 424	10/1/1999	10/31/2005
Barnett	18-F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging in Patients with Solitary Pulmonary Nodules	CSP 27	6/1/1998	10/31/2005