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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.
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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.
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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
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Protocols for High-Risk Drugs: Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Anticoagulants
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Fatigue and Sleepiness of Clinicians Due to Hours of Service
Research Protocol
Adverse Events Associated with COVID-19 Pharmaceutical Treatments
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Computerized Clinical Decision Support To Prevent Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements to Improve the Safety of Surgical Care
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Failure to Rescue—Rapid Response Systems
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Prevention of Transmission of Infection With Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Patient and Family Engagement
Research Protocol
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship
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.