Call for Nominations for Future EPC Reports by July 17, 2020

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 for next fiscal year (i.e., AHRQ can provide an evidence report at no cost). Your input is important!

Propose your evidence report topics by July 17, 2020 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: An Update of the PTSD Repository
(Available for comment until July 6, 2020)

The purpose of this review is to identify and abstract data from posttraumatic stress disorder treatment randomized controlled trials to update the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository.