CADTH Signs Agreement with the Pan American Health Organization
On October 26, 2011, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) signed an agreement with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), granting PAHO permission to translate the Rx for Change database into Spanish. This agreement will make the unique database available to the Americas and potentially improve the prescribing practice and use of drugs and other health technologies in these regions. In addition, the agreement proposes collaboration between CADTH and PAHO in capacity-building activities to improve regional capabilities for the use of research evidence, health technology assessments, and other instruments.
PAHO is an international public health agency, based in Washington, DC, that works to improve the health and living standards in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is part of the United Nations system, serving as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization.
Rx for Change is a publicly accessible, searchable database containing current research evidence about intervention strategies used to alter behaviours of health technology prescribing, practice, and use. It is the result of a partnership between CADTH, the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group, the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Knowledge Translation Canada, and the National Prescribing Service in Australia.
CADTH looks forward to collaborating with PAHO on this initiative and is pleased about the opportunity to make Rx for Change more widely accessible in the near future.