RTI-UNC Evidence-Based Practice Center
RTI International, in collaboration with the five health professions schools and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, operates the RTI-UNC Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The Center is one of 14 EPCs sponsored by the AHRQ.
Available as a resource to the entire health care community, the RTI-UNC EPC produces systematic reviews and analyses of the scientific evidence (evidence reports and updates) on a variety of health care and health policy topics. It also builds on these reports to create materials and messages for patients and clinicians relating to health care decisions. EPC personnel also conduct research into the best practices and methods for conducting reviews of the scientific literature.
The Center prepares AHRQ reports and technology assessments as well as reports for other public and private health care organizations on topics of their choosing. Center staff design and conduct customized literature searches and quantitative analyses.
Web Resources
The following Web sites provide access to reports and publications produced by the RTI-UNC EPC team:
The following short reports provide guidelines for the research and review of evidence-base practices in keeping with the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR):
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