AHRQ’s “Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User’s Guide”

"Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide" published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a landmark federal publication providing key information on developing, operating and evaluating patient registries. The handbook provides tools intended to help evaluate the quality of a patient registry.

Outcome led the development of the handbook. Outcome's Drs. Richard Gliklich and Nancy Dreyer served as the project's principal investigators and senior editors. The work was performed under contract to Outcome through its role as an AHRQ DEcIDE Research Center, a component of AHRQ's Effective Health Care initiative.

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The handbook is electronically available at AHRQ's website www.ahrq.gov.

"This new reference will be a tremendous resource to researchers, patient groups, health insurers, pharmaceutical companies and others who are eager to investigate which treatments work best...databases that depict outcomes in patient populations over time carry great potential for advancing the quality, safety and effectiveness of health care."

AHRQ Director, Carolyn M. Clancy, MD.

Outcome-Led Handbook for Patient Registry Development Published by AHRQ