Faculty and staff at CEP are actively engaged in research in the areas of health technology assessment, guideline development, patient care quality and safety, and implementation science. For more information about the research interests of individual faculty and staff, please click on their name in "Contact Us."
Recent conference presentations are posted below.
Presentation at SHEA Annual meeting
3/23/09 - The 19th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Hospital Epidemiology was held on March 19-22 in San Diego, CA. CEP Co-Director Dr. Craig Umscied presented on the following topics:
Click on the links above for a copy of presentation slides.
Presentation at HTAi Annual meeting
7/11/08 - The 5th Annual meeting of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) was held on July 7th and 8th in Quebec Canada. CEP Analyst Dr. Matthew Mitchell presented on the following topics:
How technology assessment by hospitals differs from technology assessment by payers
In-house technology assessment at a major academic medical center: The first two years
Application of evidence-based decision-making to purchasing of an imaging system
Click on the links above for a copy of presentation slides and posters.
Department of Medicine Research Day Awardee
5/23/08 - Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Miller on winning the 2008 Edward W. Holmes Research Award for Residents and Students in Evaluative Research. Dr. Miller, a third year resident in the Department of Medicine, presented a poster titled "Chlorhexidine versus Povidone-Iodine in Skin Antisepsis: A Systematic Review and Cost Analyses to Inform Initiatives to Reduce Hospital Acquired Infections." It describes the work he performed during his resident elective with Dr. Rajender Agarwal at the Center for Evidence-based Practice. Drs. Miller and Agarwal found that chlorhexidine was more cost-effective than betadine at reducing surgical site infections. Their work informed purchasing decisions and policy changes in UPHS operating rooms.
Presentation on Partnership with the Biomedical Library
05/2007 - Clinical library liason Gretchen Kuntz presented a poster which detailed her work with CEP entitled, "Supporting Evidence-based Medicine in an Academic Health System: A Unique Partnership between the Center for Evidence-based Practice and the Biomedical Library". The presentation was given at EBLIP4: 4th International Evidence-based Library and Information Practice Conference and MLA'07: Medical Library Association Annual Conference, both in May of 2007.
