Multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration has become a key feature of comparative effectiveness research … (CER), and CER funders have made promotion of these types of collaboration an implicit, and sometimes explicit, goal of … funding. An important challenge in evaluating CER programs is understanding if and how different forms of collaboration are …

Administration to conduct the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). BOND tests alternative Social Security Disability …

The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tests variants of Social Security Disability Insurance program rules … BOND implementation in each site from September 2012–September 2013. The study found that counseling services were …

BOND will test innovations to address the financial disincentives and other obstacles to increasing incomes and …

developed to support the design of the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). BOND tests alternative Social Security … will use information derived from BOND, among other sources, to produce projections of beneficiary outcomes under current … law, the benefit offset design being tested in BOND, and a variety of potential changes to the design of SSDI benefits. …