Prioritizing Evidence-based Interventions for Dissemination and Implementation Investments: AHRQ's Model and Experience.

Background: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is mandated to implement patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) to promote safer, higher quality care. With this goal, we developed a process to identify which evidence-based PCOR interventions merit investment in implementation. We present our process and experience to date.