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Using evidence to support health care decision making.

Welcome to the ARIF Website

"Advancing the use of evidence on the effects of health care in the West Midlands"

ARIF is a specialist unit based at the University of Birmingham.  The role of ARIF is to improve the incorporation of research findings into population level health care decisions in the NHS in the West Midlands region.  This is achieved by helping health care workers access and interpret research evidence, particularly systematic reviews of research, in response to particular problems they are experiencing.


The ARIF website aims to provide further information on the nature of the unit, provide summaries of the research information we have uncovered in response to requests we have received from organisations in the West Midlands and make available some resources which you might find useful in attempting to make health care decisions more evidence-based.