Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Community Guide

The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings about what works to improve public health.

The Community Guide is a resource with a scientific systematic review process and answers questions critical to almost everyone interested in community health and well-being such as:

• What interventions have and have not worked?
• In which populations and settings has the intervention worked or not worked?
• What might the intervention cost? What should I expect for my investment?
• Does the intervention lead to any other benefits or harms?
• What interventions need more research before we know if they work or not?

The task force hopes those who use the Community Guide will:

• Use more interventions that have been shown to work
• Use fewer interventions that have been shown not to work
• Research interventions for which there is not enough evidence to say whether or not they work