Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 5 , Pages 481-483, May 2010

AHRQ Series Paper 1: Comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program

  • Jean Slutsky

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
    • ,
  • David Atkins

      Affiliations

    • Assoc. Director, Health Services Research and Development Office of Research and Development Veteran's Health Administration, Washington, DC
    • ,
  • Stephanie Chang

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Center for Outcomes and Evidence, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Rd., Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Tel.: 301-427-1490; fax: 301-427-1520
    • ,
  • Beth A. Collins Sharp

      Affiliations

    • Center for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD

Accepted 21 June 2008. published online 02 October 2008.

Abstract 

In 2005, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality established the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program. The EHC Program aims to provide understandable and actionable information for patients, clinicians, and policy makers. The Evidence-based Practice Centers are one of the cornerstones of the EHC Program. Three key elements guide the EHC Program and thus, the conduct of Comparative Effectiveness Reviews by the EPC Program. Comparative Effectiveness Reviews introduce several specific challenges in addition to the familiar issues raised in a systematic review or meta-analysis of a single intervention. The articles in this series together form the current Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews of the EHC Program.

Keywords: Comparative effectiveness, Systematic review methods, Evidence-based medicine, AHRQ, Effective health care

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PII: S0895-4356(08)00170-4

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.06.009

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 5 , Pages 481-483, May 2010

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