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Under a new partnership—formed as a result of the ÂÜÀòÊÓƵComparative Effectiveness Knowledge Transfer Project for Pharmacists—three major nationally recognized pharmacy organizations are now featuring Web links to AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program on their respective Web sites.

This partnership will mean that members of these organizations—the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)—will have direct access to the comparative effectiveness research and publications developed by AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program to improve pharmacy practice. These organizations have over 68,000 monthly visitors to their Web sites. These visitors include students, practicing pharmacists, and teaching faculty.

According to C. Edwin Webb, PharmD, MPH, Associate Executive Director of ACCP, "The alignment of values and objectives between ÂÜÀòÊÓƵand ACCP is very strong. We offer ÂÜÀòÊÓƵresources to our members and Web site visitors so that clinical pharmacists have direct access to high-quality resources and information that can be used to support their practice and research needs, as well as enhance the quality of their patient care services."

Marissa Schlaifer, RPh, MS, Pharmacy Affairs Director at AMCP, says, "ÂÜÀòÊÓƵprovides good, unbiased, quality research that our members and Web site visitors can use in pharmacy practice."

The benefits of these sustainable links are also described by Will Lang, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at AACP. Lang states, "Improving the quality of health care delivered by future and current health professionals requires ready access to a robust evidence base such as the one provided through the ÂÜÀòÊÓƵWeb site."

For more information on the pharmacy organizations and to access their links to AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program, visit their Web sites:

• AACP's Curricular Resource Center page:
  
• ACCP's Professional Resources page: