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Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases
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Research Protocol January 25, 2022
Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial Disparities in Health and Healthcare
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About the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
The Effective Health Care (EHC) Program improves the quality of health care by providing the best available evidence on the outcomes, benefits and harms, and appropriateness of drugs, devices, and health care services and by helping health care professionals, patients, policymakers, and health care systems make informed health care 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, evidence translation, 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
Systematic Review October 29, 2021
Management of High-Need, High-Cost Patients: A “Best Fit” Framework Synthesis, Realist Review, and Systematic Review
Systematic Review October 27, 2021
Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain
Systematic Review October 18, 2021
Physical Activity and the Health of Wheelchair Users: A Systematic Review in Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, and Spinal Cord Injury
Research Report October 14, 2021
Developing and Piloting a Tool To Create Dot Plots To Summarize Pooled Data for Multiple Outcomes in Systematic Reviews
Overview October 14, 2021
Outcome Measure Harmonization and Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Depression
Systematic Review October 13, 2021
Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults
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January 25, 2022
AHRQ Evidence Reviews Are Catalysts for Practice Change
March 11, 2021
2020 EPC Program Year in Review
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.