ECRI institute to oversee clinical guideline, quality measure websites

ECRI Institute has announced the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has renewed its contract to operate, maintain, and enhance the AHRQ’s National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) websites. The NGC and NQMC are publicly accessible, searchable databases of summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and healthcare quality measures, measure sets, and related information. The information is presented in a standardized format that facilitates quick retrieval and comparison among guidelines and quality measures on similar topics.

The NGC and NQMC provide physicians and clinicians, payers, integrated delivery systems, and others with objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and quality measures, and to further their dissemination, implementation, and use in making informed healthcare decisions. Combined, these websites receive more than 3.4 million visits annually.