Center for Outcomes and Evidence (COE)

The Center for Outcomes and Evidence (COE), formerly the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and the Center for Practice and Technology Assessment:

• Conducts and supports research, assessments, and demonstrations on safety, quality, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and other relevant attributes of health care practices, technologies, processes and systems.
• Facilitates and coordinates the development of infrastructures for the collection, analysis, and synthesis of evidence and data in its domains.
• Serves as a center of excellence for methods and measurement development for the conduct and analysis of outcomes research, cost effectiveness analysis, and evidence-based systematic reviews and technology assessments.
• Provides evidence based information and tools about therapeutics, technologies, and health care practices for clinical and policy decisionmakers.
• Directs and supports research on and implementation of the appropriate use of therapeutics and medical technologies, including preventing overuse, underuse and adverse effects.
• Fosters partnerships with health care providers, insurers, employers and consumers to bring about sustainable systemic change to implement evidence-based practices and improve patient outcomes and quality of care.
• Represents the Agency in meetings with experts and organizations in the areas of outcomes research and evidence-based medicine and organizes conferences on these topics.