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E-GAPPS: Evidence-based Guidelines Affecting Policy, Practice and Stakeholder: Videos and Presentation Slides - Slides from the conference, which took place December 10-11, 2012 in New York City are available.
e-Source: Behavioral and Social Science Research
Early Adopters of the Accountable Care Model: A Field Report on Improvements in Health Care Delivery - This report describes the experiences of seven hospital-physician organizations that have created ACO-type entities and begun risk-sharing arrangements with public and private payers, or will soon start them.
Early Releases - The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Early Release Program provides very timely estimates of key health and health-related indicators.
EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey - The first EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey was conducted to provide reliable national data on the growth of high deductible plans and their impact on the behavior and attitudes of health care consumers.
ECRI - An independent, nonprofit health services research agency that works to improve the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of patient care. Provides a wide range of services dealing with healthcare technology, including research, evaluation, assessment, publications, and databases. Other areas of interest include: healthcare risk and quality management, and healthcare environmental management.
ECRI Events - Education and events.
ECRI Institute - Nonprofit technology assessment organization.
ECRI Institute - Horizon Scanning - ECRI was awarded a multi-year AHRQ contract (Nov. 2010) to establish the first national Healthcare Horizon Scanning System. The goal of horizon scanning is to provide a comprehensive, systematic, transparent process for identifying, tracking, and monitoring new healthcare technologies, including drugs, medical devices, procedures, services, and care delivery innovations that could signal important changes in patient care, health outcomes, or the healthcare system.
ECRI Institute Identifies 1,000 Interventions for AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System; Reports available for free on AHRQ's Effective Healthcare website
ECRI Institute's 15th Annual Conference Report: Key Questions and Issues - On October 17 and 18, 2007, ECRI Institute's 15th Annual Conference: Comparative Effectiveness of Health Interventions: Strategies to Change Policy and Practice brought together more than 200 representatives from state and federal government agencies, device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, provider organizations, health plans and insurers for a dialogue with 30 of the nation's leading health policy experts and stakeholders.
ECRI Institute's Patient-Centeredness in Policy and Practice: A conference on evidence, programs, and implications, November 29-30, 2011, Silver Spring, MD - ECRI Institute's 18th Annual Conference, Patient-Centeredness in Policy and Practice: A conference on evidence, programs, and implications, was planned and co-organized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Affairs, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, American Board of Internal Medicine, Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Access presentations and notes from this link.
EDM (Electronic Data Methods) Forum Publications - The EDM Forum has produced briefs and reports examining the use of electronic clinical data for comparative effectiveness research (CER), patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and quality improvement (QI) that can lead to meaningful improvements in patient outcomes.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Online digital library of education research and information. Information on health services research can be found via this resource.
Educational Resources - CMS has assembled a variety of resources to assist professionals in obtaining training in the proper use of the electronic health record.
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery
Effective Communication Tools for Healthcare Professionals - Online interactive training course that aims to raise the quality of provider-patient interactions by teaching providers and their staff how to gauge and respond to their patients' health literacy, cultural background, and language skills.
Effective Health Care Program's CME/CE Activities - Link to AHRQ's Training Modules for the Systematic Reviews Methods Guide as well as specific CME/CE activities on various health conditions and methods areas.
Effective Healthcare Program - Funds individual researchers, research centers, and academic organizations to work together with AHRQ to produce effectiveness and comparative effectiveness research for clinicians, consumers, and policymakers.
Effort advances to build national electronic health information infrastructure
eGEMs: Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes - eGems an online, peer-reviewed journal from the AHRQ-sponsored EDM Forum, designed to curate a knowledge base of emerging lessons learned in using electronic clinical data for health research and QI.
Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2010: The Prospect for Web 2.0 Technologies for Engagement, Communication and Dissemination in the Era of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research - This conference took place on September 14, 2010, in Gaithersburg, MD. The conference explored the key tasks of the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program and proposed Web 2.0 solutions that can enhance public interaction throughout the research process, expand the dissemination of EHC Program products, increase the use of EHC Program materials at the point of care, and boost the comprehension and use of evidence among vulnerable and disparate populations.
Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2011: Differing Levels of Clinical Evidence: Exploring Communication Challenges in Shared Decisionmaking - This conference took place on September 13, 2011 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The conference examined approaches to patient-provider communications, to develop decisionmaking support tools.
Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2012 - Presentations are available from the September 13, 2012 conference, which took place in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Elderly Health - This site provices access to innovations and quality tools related to elderly health.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs - The Official Web Site for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records. The Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) as they adopt, implement, upgrade or demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology.
Electronic Health Records and Respect for Patient Privacy: A Prescription for Compatibility - In a journal article from the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technical Law. the legal issues surrounding the electronic health record are examined.
Electronic Health Records Research Symposium August 2, 2012 - The website for this meeting Includes slide from contributed papers, including: "Regulatory Challenges and Solutions", "Technical Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions", and "Leveraging EHRs to Advance Research and Improve Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities"
Electronic Health Records: Selection Guidelines for Health Centers - Electronic Health Records: Selection Guidelines for Health Centers The Guidelines is a tool designed to help health centers evaluate electronic health record (EHR) products and develop requests for proposals (RFP) or requests for information (RFI).
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Systems of Office-based Physicians: United States, 2009 and Preliminary 2010 State Estimates - Annual, nationally representative survey of patient visits that includes office-based physicians and collects information on the adoption and use of electronic medical records/electronic health records (EMRs/EHRs).
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) - EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
eMeasure Implementation: Implications in Small Practice Settings - March 15, 2012, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., EST - This free webinar, "eMeasure Implementation: Implications in Small Practice Settings," introduces NQF staff and eMeasure experts from the provider and implementer community.
Emergency Department Visitors and Visits - Who Used the ER in 2007? - Report released in May 2010. Key findings include Older adults (aged 75 and over), non-Hispanic black persons, poor persons, and persons with Medicaid coverage were more likely to have had at least one emergency department (ED) visit in a 12-month period than those in other age, race, income, and insurance groups.
Emergency Response Safety and Health Database - The Emergency Response Safety and Health Database (ERSH-DB) is an occupational safety and health database developed by NIOSH for the emergency response community. The ERSH-DB contains accurate and concise information on high-priority chemical, biological and radiological agents that could be encountered by personnel responding to a terrorist event.
Enabling Medication Management Through Health Information Technology (Health IT) - This report reviews the literature on the effects of health IT on medication management and synthesizes available evidence regarding the effectiveness and effects of health IT in all phases of medication management as well as reconciliation and education. Gaps are identified; recommendations are made.
Encyclopedia of Health Services Research - With more than 400 entries, this two volume reference book investigate the relationship between the factors of cost, quality, and access to healthcare and their impact upon medical outcomes such as death, disability, disease, discomfort, and dissatisfaction with care.
Engaging State and Local Emergency Management Agencies to Improve Ability to Prepare for and Respond to All-Hazards Events - The program would prepare public health systems to minimize the consequences associated with all-hazards incidents and events.
Enhanced National CLAS Standards and The Blueprint with guidance and implementation strategies. - CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Enhancing post-market surveillance through developing registries for medical device epidemiology (U01) - This grant would support efforts to address identified gaps in the current postmarket surveillance system by developing new methodologies for registry data collection and linkage.
Enrollment-Driven Expenditure Growth: Medicaid Spending during the Economic Downturn, FY 2007-2011 - CMS administrative data is used to track Medicaid spending by service or category.
Ensuring Security of High-Risk Information in EHRs - This discussion of EHRs concentrates on the security needed for high-risk populations; minors, high-profile patients, and patients with conditions that may place them into uncomfortable positions.
Ensuring the Health Care Needs of Women: A Checklist for Health Exchanges - This checklist looks at key issues important to health care coverage, affordability and access to care for women that state and federal officials should consider as they establish new health insurance exchanges in each state under the Affordable Care Act
Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Core Centers (P30) - This opportunity will fund Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers, providing scientific guidance, technology, and career development opportunities for investigators.
EPC Evidence Reports - AHRQ is developing scientific information for other agencies and organizations on which to base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and other quality improvement tools. Contractor institutions review all relevant scientific literature on assigned clinical care topics and produce evidence reports and technology assessments, conduct research on methodologies and the effectiveness of their implementation, and participate in technical assistance activities.
EPC Response to IOM Standards for Systematic Reviews - This report outlines procedures for systematic review standards presented by the Evidence-based Practice Centers.
EpiQuery: NYC Interactive Health Data - Theshealth datasets provides a real-time search query of varying topics and indicators for different NYC population
ePublic Health Blog - Blog to facilitate dialogue among local public health (LHD) professionals interested in e-public health and informatics.
Equity of Care Blog - Updated biweekly, this blog provides commentary by leaders in the field who are taking up the challenge of improving the quality of care for all patient populations and eliminating health care disparities.
Equity-Oriented Toolkit for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) - The Equity -Oriented Toolkit is based on a needs-based model of HTA. It provides tools that explicitly consider health equity at the following steps of health technology assessment: Burden of illness, community effectiveness, economic evaluation, and knowledge translation and implementation.
Established Child Health Care Quality Measures - CAHPS®: Consumer Assessment of Health Plans - CAHPS®, formerly known as the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans, is a research-based survey measurement tool that is widely used for assessing access, communication, and other aspects of the experience of health care. The child questionnaires (Child Commercial and Child Medicaid) are administered to parents or guardians. There are several sets of supplemental questions on selected topics, including children with chronic conditions.
Estimating the Economic Costs of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias (R01)
Etext on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Information Resource - An online introduction to basic concepts in HTA and to key sources of information.
Ethical Issues in Evidence-Based Medicine - This is a special issue of JAMA Virtual Mentor which examines law and ethics regarding EBM. It examines such areas as education, research, individualized care, and trials.
EUnetHTA (European Network for Health Technology Assessment) - Focusing on scientific cooperation in HTA in Europe, thirty four government appointed organisations from the EU Member States, Accession Countries and EEA work together to help developing reliable, timely, transparent and transferable information to contribute to HTAs in European countries. The EUnetHTA Joint Action builds on the achievements of a number of the previous European initiatives including the EUnetHTA Project (2006-2008) and the Pharmaceutical Forum (on relative effectiveness).
European Data Center for Work and Welfare(WOWE): Indicators & Statistics - Links to a listing of relevant European and international comparative data banks and their data/services on health and safety.
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies - The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe.
Evaluating Practices and Developing Tools for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: Methods for the Joint Meta-Analysis of Multiple Tests - This project is one of four related projects designed to document the current standards and methods used in the meta-analysis of diagnostic tests, validate newly proposed methods, develop new statistical methods to perform meta-analyses of diagnostic tests, and then to incorporate these insights into computer software that will be available to all EPCs and others conducting reviews of diagnostic tests.
Event Information: Who's Leading the Leading Health Indicators? - Environmental Quality - This event will be held on Monday, December 17, 2012 12:00 pm, EST. The 45-minute session will provide an overview of Environmental Quality, number 12 of Leading Health Indicator (LHI) topics.
Evidence Based Quality Improvement (EBQI): Can this approach be helpful in improving healthcare for women Veterans?m July 28, 2011, Noon, EST - This webinar will be presented by Dr Lisa Rubenstein, Professor of Medicine at VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA, and a Senior Natural Scientist at RAND. She directs the VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence for the Study Healthcare Provider Behavior, and is a practicing general internist and geriatrician.
Evidence Database on Aging Care (EDAC) - An online database to help scholars, policy analysts, and advocates stay on top of the latest research in aging care, including social services, and care coordination. The database is maintained by The Social Work leadership Academy at The New York Academy of Medicine.
Evidence Syntheses and Systematic Evidence Reviews - This series was formerly known as Systematic Evidence Reviews (SERs). These are comprehensive reviews of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of particular clinical preventive services.
Evidence-Based Health Care Resources - Developed by the New York University Libraries, this page provides access to evidence-based health care resources and searching tools. Please note that not all of the resources can be accessed by those outside of the NYU system.
Evidence-Based Health Policy Project - The mission of the Institute is to translate public health and health policy research for policy and practice.
Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine: Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review Recommendations Evaluation - This project would evaluate the clinical laboratory best practice recommendation for reducing blood sample hemolysis rates developed through the Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Glossary - Glossary of EBM-related terminology.
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Tutorial - Intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine.
Evidence-Based Nursing Tutorial - This tutorial is designed to support both curriculum-based EBP instruction and the ongoing education of practicing professionals. The tutorial consists of five instructional modules: Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing; structure of literature; research design; searching the literature; and evaluating the quality of research.
Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) - Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) are top-ranking institutions where research reviews for the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program are made. EPCs are housed at 15 of the nation's top medical schools, universities, or medical centers. Access research reviews, original research reports, and summary guides.
Evidence-Based Practice: An Interprofessional Tutorial - This tutorial is designed for students in healthcare fields, medical professionals, faculty, and anyone else interested in evidence-based practice.
Evidence-based Synthesis Program - The Evidence-based Synthesis Program (ESP) was established to provide timely and accurate syntheses of targeted health care topics of particular importance to VA managers and policy makers and to disseminate these reports broadly throughout VA. Access published reports as well as reports in progress.
Executive Summary: Sustainability, Partnership, and Teamwork in Health IT Implementation: Findings From the Transforming Healthcare Quality Through IT Grants - This report presents an overview of the Transforming Healthcare Quality Through IT grantees' experience.
Expansion of assisted living could hurt nursing homes' bottom line, data suggests
Explaining Health Reform: What is Comparative Effectiveness Research? - October 2009 brief explaining CER.
Exploratory/Developmental Grants Program for Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R21)
Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research (LRP-HDR): Program Specific Information

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