Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100320:11:54:00
>> with respect to comparative effectiveness. what that really means is if i were sick and i were a patient and say i had high blood pressure and given my circumstance, maybe my genes, moo proteins and family history, there might be two or three drugs that are available for me. well, the patients and the doctors ought to be interested in what is the comparative effectiveness for each one of those three. effectiveness means what might be best for that person? what might work best for that particular person? comparative effectiveness is the science side of the question. now when you end up worki...