AHRQ Series
AHRQ Series Editorial: Public involvement improves methods development in comparative effectiveness reviews
Since 2004, the 14 Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) in the United States and Canada have prepared comparative effectiveness reviews (CERs) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Effective Health Care program [1]. From its inception, the Effective Health Care program has invited the public to comment on draft CERs. The articles in this issue of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology address some of the most frequently mentioned methodological inconsistencies encountered in the first year and a half of public and peer comment on these reviews.AHRQ Series Paper 2: Principles for developing guidance: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program
This article describes some of the fundamental principles that have been developed to guide the work of producing comparative effectiveness reviews (CERs).AHRQ Series Paper 5: Grading the strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health-Care Program
To establish guidance on grading strength of evidence for the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.AHRQ Series Paper 3: Identifying, selecting, and refining topics for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care program
This article discusses the identification, selection, and refinement of topics for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Effective Health Care (EHC) program.
