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Systematic Review
August 29, 2023
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June 20, 2023
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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Open for comment until September 27, 2023
Research Protocol August 16, 2023
Diagnosis and Management of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Children
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Research Protocol August 24, 2023
Diagnosis and Treatment of Tethered Spinal Cord
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Research Protocol August 18, 2023
Treatment of Stage I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer
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Draft Comments September 5, 2023
Behavioral Interventions for Migraine Prevention
Research Protocol September 21, 2023
Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Update of the PTSD Repository Evidence Base
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Research Protocol September 21, 2023
Healthcare Industry Waste and Lifecycle Assessme
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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
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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 September 12, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Computerized Clinical Decision Support To Prevent Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
Research Protocol September 8, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Sepsis Prediction, Recognition, and Intervention
Research Protocol September 8, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements to Improve the Safety of Surgical Care
Research Protocol September 7, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Failure to Rescue—Rapid Response Systems
Research Protocol September 7, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Prevention of Transmission of Infection With Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms
Research Protocol September 6, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Patient and Family Engagement
Research Protocol September 5, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship
Research Protocol September 5, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Active Infection Surveillance of Clostridioides difficile and Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), Candida auris
Research Protocol September 5, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Engaging Family Caregivers with Structured Communication for Safe Care Transitions
Research Protocol September 5, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Deprescribing to Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults
Research Protocol September 5, 2023
Making Healthcare Safer IV: Healthcare Workers' Implicit Bias Training and Education
Systematic Review September 20, 2023
Living Systematic Review on Cannabis and Other Plant-Based Treatments for Chronic Pain
News
June 28, 2023
AHRQ EPC Evidence Review Findings Published in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Highlighted in Editorial on Prenatal Care
March 21, 2023
Meetings Examine Impact of Healthcare Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare
February 1, 2023
Cannabis Article Selected as Best of 2022
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.