Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI)
Generates new knowledge, synthesizes evidence, translates science on what works in health and health care delivery, and catalyzes practice improvement across health care settings with a focus on primary care.
The Director of CEPI is Therese Miller, Dr.P.H.
CEPI consists of four divisions:
- Evidence-based Practice Center Program: Produces a range of evidence syntheses—from systematic evidence reviews to rapid reviews –using robust and rigorous methodologies, and advances the methods of evidence synthesis to ensure scientific rigor and unbiased reviews.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Program: Provides scientific, administrative, and dissemination support for the independent U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, enabling the Task Force to make evidence-based recommendations on clinical preventive services.
- Division of Digital Healthcare Research: Develops and disseminates evidence to inform policy and practice on how health information technology can improve the quality of healthcare.
- Division of Practice Improvement: Promotes innovative and evidence-based healthcare that advances the science of dissemination and implementation and creates materials to teach healthcare professionals and systems to improve care for their patients.
CEPI is also home to AHRQ’s National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR)
The National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR) is the home for primary care research at AHRQ. NCEPCR is focused on strengthening the Nation's primary care system, providing evidence, practical tools, and other resources for researchers and evaluators, clinicians and clinical teams, quality improvement experts, and healthcare decision makers to improve the quality and safety of care.
