Many organizations that conduct research produce reports of their findings that are never published but are accessible via their websites. These reports often include facts and analysis you may not find in other published materials.
The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality provides technology assessments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. Includes completed and in-progress assessments. Also archives assessments from 1990-2006.
The Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) Program awards 5-year contracts to institutions in the United States and Canada to serve as EPCs. The EPCs review all relevant scientific literature on clinical, behavioral, and organization and financing topics to produce evidence reports and technology assessments.
Guides, reviews, and reports produced by individual researchers, research centers, and academic organizations funded by the Effective Health Care Program. Research focuses on effectiveness and comparative effectiveness for clinicians, consumers, and policymakers. View What is the Effective Health Care Program? for more information.
A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making regarding the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions, as well as methodology and diagnostic tests. Includes:1. Database of Systematic Reviews 2. Central Register of Controlled Trials 3. Methodology Register 4. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects 5. Health Technology Assessment Database 6. NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Research datasets & instruments used in research in the health services. From the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR).
The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is an independent, non-profit organization, comprised of 61 medical groups representing 9,000 physicians, that helps its members provide evidence-based health care services to people in Minnesota and surrounding states.
Health Policy Picks is a monthly selection of relevant publications. Individual government organization websites and statistics can be found under Research Tools.
The Kaiser Family Foundation conducts health policy research and analysis, operates a health news and information service, and runs health information campaigns.
The Prevention Institute brings research, practice, and analysis to the country's pressing health and safety concerns, with an emphasis on prevention practice.
