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eCare Plan for Multiple Chronic Conditions

AHRQ's eCare Plan project aims to build care planning tools that will improve how we do research and provide healthcare for people with multiple chronic conditions.

The Effective Health Care Program is powered by the Evidence-based Practice Centers Program, and improves the quality of healthcare by synthesizing and disseminating the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and healthcare services. This work helps healthcare professionals, patients, policymakers, healthcare systems, researchers and research funders make informed decisions about healthcare and research needs.

Evidence-Based Decisionmaking

Evidence-based practice is the use of the best available evidence together with a clinician's expertise and a patient's values and preferences in making health care decisions. The Prevention and Chronic Care Program works to expand the available evidence base for evidence-based practice and to ensure clinicians have the tools to put this knowledge base into practice.

The Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) Program sponsors the development of evidence reviews to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of healthcare in the United States. These reviews examine the benefits and harms of medications, devices, and other healthcare services, and support the Effective Health Care Program, Technology Assessment Program, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The EPCs are located at universities, medical centers, and research institutions in the United States. The EPC Division at ´óÏóÊÓƵsets the strategy and priorities for the EPC Program, and manages program operations, contracts, grants, and training.

Health Literacy

AHRQ's health literacy resources help health care professionals and delivery organizations make information easier to understand and systems easier to navigate.

Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

The patient-centered medical home is a promising model for transforming the organization and delivery of primary care. This website features evidence, examples, and lessons learned from primary care practices that have transformed their approach to organizing and delivering care. Policymakers, researchers, practices, and practice facilitators can access evidence-based resources about the medical home and its potential to transform primary care and improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of U.S. health care.

Prevention and Chronic Care Research

AHRQ’s Prevention/Care Management Portfolio works to improve the delivery of primary care services to meet the needs of the American population for high quality, safe, effective, and efficient clinical prevention and chronic disease care.

Primary Care Practice Improvement

The primary care system currently has significant—and perhaps unprecedented—opportunities to emphasize quality improvement and practice redesign in ways that could fundamentally improve health care in the United States.

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

´óÏóÊÓƵfunds and conducts research to improve understanding of the impacts of SDOH, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and how to mitigate them through the lens of the healthcare system.

TAKEheart

TAKEheart is an ´óÏóÊÓƵinitiative to help hospitals increase participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) using automatic referral and care coordination. CR is a medically supervised secondary prevention program that provides patient-centric education, risk factor mitigation, supervised exercise training, and psychosocial support to improve cardiovascular health.