title: Arriving at Results Efficiently: Using the Enhanced Evaluability Assessment Approach.
abstract: Evidence, particularly practice-based evidence, is needed to guide public health practice. With the goal of contributing to practice-based evidence, the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention combined and streamlined aspects of an evaluability assessment and an effectiveness evaluation to create the Enhanced Evaluability Assessment (EEA). This approach offers a viable and less costly alternative to evaluators and practitioners by quickly identifying and evaluating models with evidence of effectiveness that can be replicated and expanded. The EEA can be applied to a range of public health topics, not just cardiovascular health. This article provides a step-by-step description of the EEA.
authors.affiliation: Prescription Drug Overdose Health Systems and State Support Team, Health Systems and Trauma Systems Branch, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS F-62, Atlanta, GA 30341. Email: jlosby@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Jan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Losby
authors.affiliation: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Marla
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaughan
authors.affiliation: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Aisha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tucker-Brown
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D015980:Public Health Practice; D014481:United States