Effective Health Care [AHRQ]

New Series of Working White Papers From Effective Health Care

As part of our ongoing project on Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes, AHRQ has commissioned four white papers. The purpose of these white papers is to stimulate discussion and building of consensus on emerging issues in the development and implementation of registries that cross technical, legal and ethical disciplines. As for the full registry handbook, first drafts of these white papers were developed by several authors and reviewers representing various points of view including academia, industry and clinical practice. We are now posting these drafts for public comment for an initial period of four weeks. We encourage critical comments and evaluation of the information in these papers to be submitted to AHRQ.

Comments that are received by AHRQ will be organized by theme and a disposition of comments and response by the authors will be posted before November 2009. Where the comments received through public comment indicate broad consensus, parts of these white papers will be incorporated into the next version of the full registries handbook, which will be posted in draft form for public review at the same time as the disposition of comments from the draft white papers. Where the comments indicate disagreement on the technical implementation or legal or ethical implications of different topics, we are planning to post new drafts of the white papers for a new round of public comment as part of the next phase of the ongoing registries methods project. We hope that this process will help to clarify critical issues in the development and use of registries.

Handbook II White Paper - Interfacing Registries with EHRs (1 of 4)
http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/getInvolved.cfm?involvetype=pc&DocID=165&ProcessID=111

Handbook II White Paper - Stopping a Registry (2 of 4)
http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/getInvolved.cfm?involvetype=pc&DocID=166&ProcessID=112

Handbook II White Paper - Data Linkage (3 of 4)
http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/getInvolved.cfm?involvetype=pc&DocID=167&ProcessID=113

Handbook II White Paper - Use of Registries in Product Safety Assessment (4 of 4)
http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/getInvolved.cfm?involvetype=pc&DocID=168&ProcessID=114