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Next Steps in Improving Healthcare Value: AHRQ Evidence‐based Practice Center Program—Applying the Knowledge to Practice to Data Cycle to Strengthen the Value of Patient Care
Author(s) -
Borsky Amanda E,
Flores Emilia J,
Berliner Elise,
Chang Christine,
Umscheid Craig A,
Chang Stephanie M
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of hospital medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.128
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1553-5606
pISSN - 1553-5592
DOI - 10.12788/jhm.3157
Subject(s) - medicine , health care , knowledge translation , evidence based practice , quality management , agency (philosophy) , evidence based medicine , medical education , nursing , knowledge management , alternative medicine , service (business) , computer science , philosophy , pathology , epistemology , economics , economic growth , economy
For more than 20 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence‐based Practice Center (EPC) Program has been identifying and synthesizing evidence to inform evidence‐based healthcare. Recognizing that many healthcare settings continue to face challenges in disseminating and implementing evidence into practice, AHRQ's EPC program has also embarked on initiatives to facilitate the translation of evidence into practice and to measure and monitor how practice changes impact health outcomes. e program has structured its efforts around the three phases of the Learning Healthcare System cycle: knowledge, practice, and data. Here, we use a topic relevant to the field of hospital medicine— Clostridium difficile colitis prevention and treatment—as an exemplar of how the EPC program has used this framework to move evidence into practice and develop systems to facilitate continuous learning in healthcare systems.