Secondary Analyses of Comparative Effectiveness, Health Outcomes and Costs in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions (R21)

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Description:  The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for short-term projects involving secondary analysis aimed at the following goals:

• To assess the public health and health cost impact of specific combinations of two or more conditions in defined older populations,
• To identify potential differences in effectiveness and safety of different treatment regimens for patients with specific combinations of two or more conditions,
• To examine alterations in safety or effectiveness of a treatment for one condition related to the presence of one or more specific coexisting condition.

·         To identify and address methodological issues relevant to analyses of the health impact of multiple chronic conditions such as validity of data and confounding by indication.