Critical Steps towards Bridging the Clinical Care Gap
The Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) is a unique, not-for-profit collaborative whose mission is to foster best practices in primary care via the development of relevant, evidence-based interventions.
As an interprofessional partnership of experienced clinicians, academic researchers and health consumers, the CEP is a knowledge broker uniquely positioned to meet the information needs of health practitioners working within Canada's overburdened health systems. We help to bridge care gaps by designing, implementing and evaluating practical tools and services that improve clinicians' capacity to treat patients with confidence, while avoiding data overload.
Primary care is playing an increasingly vital role within the health system, one that will grow in importance as health systems address growing chronic diseases and shift toward prevention and self management. Our goal for practitioners and patients alike is simple: Reliable, efficient care based on the best and latest evidence.
To that end, a retooled, expanded Centre for Effective Practice will be launched in the fall of 2008, offering a comprehensive range of innovative products and services designed to eradicate barriers to quality care. We are excited to announce that the CEP has assumed responsibility for two innovative initiatives: the Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) www.gacguidelines.ca and the Health Knowledge Central www.healthknowledgecentral.org website. Their complimentary missions, respectively to increase awareness and use of best evidence by evaluating and summarizing guidelines, and to provide clinicians with evidence-based online tools, are a natural fit with the CEP's approach. We eagerly anticipate leveraging the momentum and leadership they have achieved in these areas.
We look forward to consolidating and improving these and other invaluable services for primary care practitioners across Canada, in concert with our all-important partners and stakeholders past, present and future.
Check www.effectivepractice.org for updates, and watch for our announcements this fall.
