AHRQ Effective Health Care Program, Consumer Research Summaries

AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program

AHRQ funds individual researchers, research centers, and academic organizations to work together with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to produce effectiveness and comparative effectiveness research for clinicians, consumers, and policymakers. AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. As one of 12 agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, AHRQ supports health services research that will improve the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decision making.

Research Summaries for Consumers, Clinicians, and Policymakers:

  • The Effective Health Care Program creates free research summaries about the benefits and risks of different treatments for different health conditions.
  • The summaries are based on comparative effectiveness reviews that cover health topics suggested by the public.
  • These research summaries are not clinical recommendations or guidelines and should not be interpreted as such.
  • You can join AHRQ's e-mail list to receive updates when new research summaries are posted, by clicking here.

AHRQ Research Summaries, Directory
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