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• The PDQ-Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking allows you to search research terms and get immediate access to evidence for informing health decisions. Results include articles, systematic reviews, and other evidence.

Complex interventions

• Guise JM, Chang C, Viswanathan M, Glick S, Treadwell J, Umscheid C, Whitlock E, Fu R, Berliner E, Paynter R, Anderson J, Motu'apuaka M, Trikalinos T. Systematic Reviews of Complex Multicomponent Health Care Interventions. Research White Paper. AHRQ Publication No. 14-EHC003-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2014. DOI Link.

• Guise JM, Tugwell P, Viswanathan M, on behalf of the Complex Interventions Working Group. AHRQ series on complex intervention systematic reviews-paper 6: PRISMA-CI extension statement and checklist. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017;90:43-50. PMID: 28720516

• Guise JM, Butler M, Chang C, Viswanathan M, Hernán MA, Pigott T, Tugwell P, for the Complex Interventions Workgroup. AHRQ series on complex intervention systematic reviews-paper 7: PRISMA-CI elaboration and explanation. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017: 90:51-58. PMID: 28720513

• Shaw D, Guise JM, Shah N, Guilherme C, DeLong J. Lancet Series on Maternal Health II: Drivers of maternity care in high-income countries: can health systems support woman-centred care? Lancet. 2016:388(10057):2282-2295. PMID: 27690340

Evidence-based practice

• Schoelles K, Umscheid CA, Lin JS, Concannon TW, Skelly AC, Viswanathan M, Chang C, Kato E, Bass E, Lavenberg J, Peterson K, Newton A, Meyers E, Springs S, Christensen V, Floyd N, Fiordalisi C, Guise JM, Murad MH. A Framework for Conceptualizing Evidence Needs of Health Systems. Research White Paper. (Prepared by Scientific Resource Center, under Contract No. 290-2012-0004-C). AHRQ Publication No. 18-EHC004-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. PMID: 29708677

• White CM, Sanders Schmidler GD, Borsky A, Butler M, Wang Z, Robinson K, Mitchell MD, Berkman N, Henderson J, Fiordalisi C, Hartling L, Newberry SJ, Guise J-M, Niebuhr D, Pham D, Gozu A, Iyer S, Banez L. Understanding Health-Systems’ Use of and Need for Evidence To Inform Decisionmaking. Research White Paper. (Prepared by the University of Connecticut and Duke Evidence-based Practice Centers under Contract No. 290-2015-00012-I and 290-2015-00004-I.) AHRQ Publication No. 17(18)-EHC035-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2017.  PMID 29611913

High Value Healthcare Collaborative

• Savitz LA and LT Weiss. “A Data Driven Approach to Achieving High Value Healthcare.” eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 5(3):1, 2017. DOI Link.

• Welch G, F von Recklinghausen, A Taenzer, L Savitz and L Weiss. “Data Cleaning in the Evaluation of a Multi-Site Intervention Project.” eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 5(3):4, 2017. DOI Link.

• Taenzer A, A Kinslow, C Gorman, S Schoepflin Sanders, SJ Patel, S Kraft and L Savitz. “Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence Based Best Practice Across the High Value Healthcare Collaborative (HVHC) Using Sepsis as a Prototype – Rapidly Learning from Others.”. eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 5(3):5, 2017. DOI Link.

• Albritton J, T Belnap and L Savitz. “The Effect of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on the Duration of Observation Stays: Using Regression Discontinuity to Estimate Causal Effects.” eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 5(3):6, 2017. DOI Link.

LHS: Electronic Data Methods Forum, an AcademyHealth initiative funded by AHRQ

• Stoto M, M Oakes, E Stuart, L Savitz, EL Priest and J Zurovac. “Analytical Methods for a Learning Health System: 1. Framing the Research Question.” eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 5(1):28, 2017. DOI Link.

• Stoto M, M Oakes, E Stuart, EL Priest and L Savitz. “Analytical Methods for a Learning Health System: 2. Design of Observational Studies.” eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 5(1):29, 2017. DOI Link.

• Stoto M, Parry G, Savitz L. “Analytical Methods for a Learning Health System: 4. Delivery System Science”. eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes). 2017;5(1):31. DOI Link.

Others

• Campbell EM, Li H, Mori T, Osterweil P, Guise JM. "“The Impact of Health Information Technology on Work Process and Patient Care in Labor and Delivery.” In: Henriksen K, Battles JB, Keyes MA, Grady ML, editors. Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches (Vol. 4: Technology and Medication Safety). Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2008 Aug. Adv Pat Safety.

• Eden KB, Messina R, Li H, Osterweil P, Henderson CR, Guise JM. “Examining the Value of Electronic Health Records on Labor and Delivery.” Am J Obstet Gynecol, 199(3):307.e1-9.

• Eriksson CO, Stoner RC, Eden KB, Newgard CD, Guise JM. “The Association Between Hospital Capacity Strain and Inpatient Outcomes in Highly Developed Countries: A Systematic Review.” J Gen Intern Med, 32(6):686-96.

• Kanani N, EE Hahn, MK Gould, KD Brunisholz, Savitz LA and EC Holve. “AcademyHealth’s Delivery System Science Fellowship: Training embedded researchers to design, implement, and evaluate new models of care.” J Hosp Med, 12(7):570-574, Jul, 2017.

• Savitz LA and ST Savitz. “Can Delivery Systems Use Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Reduce Healthcare Costs and Improve Value?” F1000 Research (an open science publishing platform), 5(F1000 Faculty Rev):2575, Oct, 2016. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.7531.1