Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of

There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The Unite

Advances in medical, biomedical and health services research have reduced the level of uncertainty in clinical practice. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) com

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is,

Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care rela