AHRQ Effective Health Care Program
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care Program produces comparative-effectiveness reviews — head-to-head evidence syntheses of treatments, diagnostics, and care strategies. Methodology is systematic-review grade; all reports are free.
- AHRQ Effective Health Care Program
- Systematic Reviews & Reports
- Clinician Summaries — boiled-down for the clinic.
- Consumer / Patient Summaries — useful for shared decision-making.
Related AHRQ tools
- USPSTF (which AHRQ supports)
- Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)
- AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
- AHRQ Health Literacy tools
- SHARE Approach (shared decision-making)
Why use AHRQ reports
- Comparative effectiveness — designed to answer “drug A vs drug B” rather than “does drug A work.”
- Cover topics that don’t fit neatly into a single specialty society guideline.
- Methodology transparent; appendices include the literature search, exclusion table, GRADE rationale.