Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health
Evidence Based Practice Center
What are Evidence-based Practice Centers?
AHRQ created the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) to produce evidence reports. Reports provide comprehensive, science-based information on drugs, devices, processes, and other healthcare technologies and strategies. EPCs also produce technical reports on methodological topics.
Brown University’s EPC
We operate Brown University's Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) for the program. Ours is one of 9 EPCs currently sponsored by AHRQ.
Our EPC develops comparative effectiveness reviews, evidence reports, and technology assessments on a spectrum of clinical and policy-oriented topics. Our reviews inform decisions of clinicians, patients, policy-makers, purchasers, and payers. We synthesize literature on clinical, behavioral, organizational, and financing topics, promote improvements in health and healthcare and provide data for others to make coverage decisions, develop quality measures, educational materials, and guidelines to set research agendas.
Contact
Organizations or individuals interested in partnering with the Center on an initiative should contact Center Director Thomas Trikalinos.
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Thomas Trikalinos
Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice