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Evidence Reports
AHRQ created the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) to produce evidence reports. Reports provide comprehensive, science-based information on drugs, devices, processes, and other healthcare technologies and strategies. EPCs also produce technical reports on methodological topics.
Provide Input
Open for comment until December 9, 2024
Research Protocol
Dietary Total Fat Intake and Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Child Growth and Development Outcomes: A Systematic Review
Submit Supplemental Evidence and Data (SEADs) on the Research Protocol
Suggest a Topic for a New Evidence Review
What healthcare decisions are you struggling with? Would a review of the scientific evidence help inform this decision? Share your ideas.
Draft Reports
Draft reports are open for comment for 4 weeks. The comments help improve the clarity, accuracy, and relevance of the reports and ensure that the final report is useful for stakeholders.
Key Questions
Key Questions guide research and ensure it addresses the most important questions to help patients, clinicians, and healthcare policymakers make good healthcare decisions.
Supplemental Evidence and Data
Submit supplemental evidence and data (SEADS) for evidence reviews that are relevant to the questions raised within our evidence reports.
About the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
The Effective Health Care (EHC) Program improves the quality of healthcare by providing the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and healthcare services and by helping healthcare professionals, patients, policymakers, and healthcare systems make informed healthcare decisions. The EHC Program achieves this goal by partnering with research centers, academic institutions, health professional societies, consumer organizations, and other stakeholders to conduct research, evidence synthesis, and dissemination and implementation of research findings.
The Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Division sets the strategy and priorities for the EPC Program, and manages related contracts, grants, and training.
The Registry of Patient Registries project provides information and tools to help researchers build and use a patient registry.
SRDR+ is a free, powerful, easy to use tool for data extraction, management, and archiving during systematic reviews.
Research
Rapid Evidence Product
Linking Dental Services to Treatment Outcomes for Chronic Kidney Disease: A Rapid Response Review
Rapid Evidence Product
Linking Dental Services to Treatment Outcomes for Diabetes: A Rapid Response Review
Rapid Evidence Product
The Association Between Outcomes and Dental Services in Persons With Autoimmune Disease Treated With Biologics and Other Immunosuppressants: A Rapid Response Review
Systematic Review
Treatment of Stage I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Programs for Responding to Harms Experienced by Patients during Clinical Care
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: High Reliability Organization (HRO) as a Patient Safety Practice
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Supply Chain Disruption Monitoring Programs
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Transitions
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer (MHS) IV: Patient Monitoring Systems to Prevent Failure to Rescue
Systematic Review
Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Maternal Mental Health Conditions
Systematic Review
Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: A Systematic Review
Rapid Evidence Product
Dental Care for People With Sickle Cell Disease: A Rapid Response Literature Review
Rapid Evidence Product
Dental Care for People With Hemophilia: A Rapid Response Literature Review
News
The Technology Assessment (TA) Program at AHRQ provides technology assessments for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which are used by CMS to inform its national coverage decisions for the Medicare program as well as provide information to Medicare carriers.
Learn more about how AHRQ, through its EPCs, sponsors the development of various reports to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of health care.
The Task Force works to improve the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, and preventive medications.