Partnership in Applied Comparative Effectiveness Science (PACES)
The PACES initiative sought to further the development of patient centered outcomes research (PCOR) in the FDA. The project was designed to help the agency build expertise in the analytic tools, methods and best practices, so that staff could be better equipped to work with sponsors, and other federal agencies, as they design and evaluate PCOR. Funded by the FDA, PACES was a partnership between the FDA, Johns Hopkins University, General Dynamics IT, the Lewin Group, and CMTP.