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Submit a Suggestion for a New Evidence Review
The Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program reviews the available evidence on current health care tests, treatments, and methods of health care delivery and describes their advantages or disadvantages. These reviews are based on relevant published and unpublished scientific literature and provide comprehensive, science-based information to consumers, clinicians, and policymakers. Evidence reports can help patients make better decisions about their health care options and can help clinicians and policymakers understand the benefits and harms of different tests and treatments.
Federal agencies can partner with AHRQ through an Interagency Agreement (IAA) to support systematic reviews and technical briefs. To get started or for more information on the process of establishing an IAA with the AHRQ EPC Program, please contact epc@ahrq.gov.
Before you get started
When you submit a suggestion, you are nominating a potential topic for a future evidence report and subsequent translation products produced by the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program. Learn how to suggest a topic and how a suggested topic is chosen, or read topics suggested by others. If you are interested in submitting ideas for primary research funding, please go to Funding Opportunities.
To nominate a new evidence review
Please fill in the form below as completely as possible and click on "submit" at the end. If you prefer, you may fill out the Microsoft Word format (.doc) version of the form and email the completed form to effectivehealthcare@ahrq.hhs.gov, or you may print the completed form and mail it to:
Kara Winchell, M.A.
AHRQ Effective Health Care Program
c/o Portland VA Medical Center (R&D 71)
3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road
Portland, OR 97239
If you have any supporting documents you would like to include with your nomination, you can include them (if mailing), send them as additional attachments (if emailing), or upload them while submitting the online form.
Your suggested topic as well as responses to the nomination questions (except personal identification information) will be posted for others to view in the Read Suggested Topics for Research.