Program Mission:

The Center's vision is to improve health by advancing the science of clinical evaluative research and facilitating medical innovation through evidence-based science policy.

The Center's mission is to:

Improve healthcare through the measurement of meaningful outcomes of medical treatment and scholarly analysis of medical innovation.

The Center's research objectives are:

• To conduct clinical evaluative research, emphasizing randomized clinical trials that evaluate standard and innovative surgical therapies and medical devices

• To develop new analytical methods for evaluating medical treatments
• To conduct quality of care studies that focus on medical error reduction
• Advance innovation in medicine by creating a better understanding of how new interventions emerge and are incorporated into clinical practice;
• Investigate the health policy implications of our research findings;
• Educate new investigators in health services research; and
• Strengthen and expand high quality, interdisciplinary clinical evaluative and policy research at the Health Sciences Campus of Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.