CEPI Evidence Discovery And Retrieval (CEDAR) Project
Project Final Report (PDF, 965.39 KB) Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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By making evidence repositories more FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable—through technologies such as application programming interfaces, CEDAR helped health information technology developers design new and exciting ways to make the information available where, when, and how stakeholders need it most.
Project Details -
Completed
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Contract Number75FCMC18D0047_ 75Q80120F80008
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Funding Mechanism(s)
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AHRQ Funded Amount$5,012,572
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Principal Investigator(s)
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LocationMcleanVirginia
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Project Dates09/30/2020 - 09/29/2023
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Health Care Theme
In 2016, with funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund, AHRQ initiated a multi-component program aimed at advancing PCOR findings into practice through clinical decision support (CDS). This program has funded grants and contracts focused on disseminating PCOR findings through CDS, an overall evaluation and horizon-scanning project, the CDS Innovation Collaborative, and CDS Connect. CDS Connect is a prototype, web-based infrastructure for sharing interoperable CDS and includes a repository, CDS authoring tool, and multiple open-source software packages. CDS Connect matches CDS developers interested in sharing and disseminating CDS with CDS implementers who may reuse the CDS for further innovation and local adaptation. CDS Connect and its tools aim to make CDS more shareable, interoperable, and publicly available.
With the reauthorization of the PCOR Trust Fund in 2019, AHRQ continues to focus on its mandate to disseminate PCOR findings into clinical practice. In addition to CDS Connect, AHRQ’s Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI) has invested in other repositories of evidence and PCOR findings, such as the repositories that support the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). AHRQ has recognized the need for these repositories to be more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).
The goal of the CEPI Evidence Discovery and Retrieval (CEDAR) project was to make PCOR findings within AHRQ repositories more FAIR through technologies used by clinicians, researchers, implementers, patients, and others. Specifically, this work developed prototype infrastructure that demonstrated standards-based, application programming interface (API)-enabled discovery and retrieval of underlying PCOR findings within CEPI repositories, such as the EPC program, USPSTF recommendations, and CDS Connect. Deliverables included an environmental scan and gap analysis, a reference implementation for the prototype infrastructure/API, a pilot demonstration, and publicly available documentation and reports. CEDAR is open source and freely available.
Citation: CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (The Health FFRDC). An Environmental Scan to Inform the Development of CEDAR (2023): AHRQ CEDAR: Environmental Scan 2023. Prepared under Contract No. 75FCMC18D0047. AHRQ Publication No. 23-0044-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2023.
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cedar_environmental_scan.pdf
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The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Project Name: CEPI Evidence Discovery And Retrieval (CEDAR) Project
Document Type: Report
Citation: CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (The Health FFRDC). AHRQ CEDAR: Option Period Outreach Report. Prepared under Contract No. 75FCMC18D0047. AHRQ Publication No. 23-0080-1-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2023.
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ahrq_cedar_outreach_report_final.pdf
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The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Project Name: CEPI Evidence Discovery And Retrieval (CEDAR) Project
Document Type: Report
Citation: CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (The Health FFRDC). AHRQ CEDAR: Option Period Final Project Report. Prepared under Contract No. 75FCMC18D0047. AHRQ Publication No. 23-0080-3-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2023.
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ahrq_cedar_final_project_report_2023.pdf
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The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Project Name: CEPI Evidence Discovery And Retrieval (CEDAR) Project
Document Type: Report
Citation: CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (The Health FFRDC). AHRQ CEDAR: Final Report. Prepared under Contract No. 75FCMC18D0047. AHRQ Publication No. 22-0064- 1-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 2022.
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cedar-year1-final-report.pdf
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The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Principal Investigator: Mikk, Kathy
Project Name: CEPI Evidence Discovery And Retrieval (CEDAR) Project
Document Type: Report
Research Method: Mixed Methods
Technology: Clinical Decision Support System
Population: Implementer
Citation: FAIR Access to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in AHRQ CEPI Repositories: An Environmental Scan to Inform the Development of CEDAR. (Prepared by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (The Health FFRDC) under Contract No. 75FCMC18D0047.) AHRQ Publication No. 21-0032. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2021.
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cedar-environmental-scan.pdf
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The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Principal Investigator: Mikk, Kathy
Project Name: CEPI Evidence Discovery And Retrieval (CEDAR) Project
Document Type: Report
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