Vanderbilt University EPC
In 1997, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) created a program to increase the use of evidence-based practice in standard medical care by funding 12 Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs). The objective of the EPCs is to undertake systematic reviews of currently available evidence concerning various topics including clinical medicine, social and behavioral science, and economics. In 2002, the agency now known as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded contracts to 13 EPCs, with the addition of the Universities of Alberta,
The current EPCs are located at:
- Duke
University - McMaster
University - Minnesota Evidence-based
Practice Center - Stanford
University— University of California, San Francisco - University of
Connecticut
