Call for Nominations for Future EPC Reports by January 31, 2019

What health care decisions are you struggling with? Would a review of the scientific evidence help inform this decision? Share your ideas with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program. AHRQ will use these ideas to determine the focus of its evidence reports this year (i.e., AHRQ can provide an evidence report at no cost). Your input is important!

Propose your evidence report topics by January 31 at: https://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/submit-a-suggestion-for-research/.

The AHRQ EPC Program reviews and summarizes the available evidence on current health care issues, which can help:

Clinicians and policymakers understand the benefits and harms of different tests and treatments;
Health systems and policymakers understand the best options for implementing a new program or intervention; and
Patients make better decisions about their health care options

If you have any questions, please contact epc@ahrq.hhs.gov

Opportunity to Comment on Draft Report

We encourage the public to participate in the development of our research projects. Comments can be submitted for:

Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Groundwork for a Publicly Available Repository of Randomized Controlled Trials
Available for comment until January 18, 2019

Opportunity to Submit Scientific Information

The Effective Health Care (EHC) Program is interested in receiving supplemental evidence and data (SEADs) for systematic reviews that are relevant to the questions in our evidence reports. To ensure that it has full access to relevant research, whether or not it is published, the EHC Program is interested in receiving SEADs containing detailed study-specific information. Opportunities to submit scientific information are available for:

Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer’s-type Dementia (CATD)
Available for submissions until January 17, 2019

About us: AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program is committed to providing the best available evidence on the outcomes, benefits and harms, and appropriateness of drugs, devices, and health care services and by helping health care professionals, patients, policymakers, and health care systems make informed health care decisions. The program partners with research centers, academic institutions, health professional societies, consumer organizations, and other stakeholders to conduct research, evidence synthesis, evidence translation, dissemination, and implementation of research findings.

To learn more: https://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov