ECRI
ECRI is Awarded New Contract for National Guideline Clearinghouse and
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse by U.S. Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality.
Maple Shade, NJ- ECRI Institute, In Partnership with notsoldseparately
(NSSC) has been awarded a new three - year contract to operate,
enhance and maintain two Web-Based initiatives for the U.S. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). NSSC will be the Lead IT
Technical Contractor.
The publicly available sites are the National Guideline Clearinghouse
™ (NGC), www.guideline.gov, for
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, and the National Quality
Measures Clearinghouse ™ (NQMC), www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov,
for evidence-based quality measures and measure sets.
The two web sites provide physicians, nurses, and other health
professionals a continuously updated wealth of objective, detailed
information on clinical practice guidelines and healthcare quality
measures. This information helps them make more informed healthcare
decisions. The two related and linked resources will remain as
separate Web sites for free public access.
The NGC Web site, which logs more than one million user visits each
month, contains summaries of more than 2,100 current evidence-based
clinical practice guidelines from more than 300 guideline- developing
organizations. The NQMC Web site, with 250,000 user visits each month,
summarizes more than 1,200 evidence-based quality measures from
approximately 40 measure- developing organizations. Both sites contain
content from worldwide sources and see significant international use.