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This updated prioritization brief describes how HomVEE determines which models to review. It provides hypothetical examples to illustrate the prioritization process. The update reflects changes introduced in HomVEE’s Version 2.2 handbook.

HomVEE has revised several of the evidence review’s procedures and standards. These revisions were released in the Handbook of the Procedures and Evidence Standards, Version 2.2, which was published in April 2024. To inform this update, HomVEE solicited public comment through its website and mailing list in summer 2023. This new brief summarizes how HomVEE addressed key comments from the public in the final version of the handbook.

This brief was developed following responses to the Federal Register notice about HomVEE’s approach to reviewing single-case design (SCD) research (available on this page). The brief is intended to provide general information about what an SCD is and how SCDs can be used to conduct rigorous research. It defines an SCD, illustrates common types of designs, and details the benefits and drawbacks of conducting SCD research.

The revised HomVEE Handbook (Version 2.1) has been updated to reflect how the HomVEE review applies standards and criteria from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to single-case design (SCD) research in the home visiting field. Revisions are primarily found in Appendix D: Standards and Reporting Procedures for Single-Case Design Research.

This Federal Register notice, published in 2021, details clarifications and changes HomVEE proposed to make to procedures and standards related to single-case design research. The final clarifications and changes that HomVEE adopted are available in the Version 2.1 Handbook of Procedures and Standards elsewhere on this site.

For the first time since its inception, HomVEE has substantially revised several of the evidence review's procedures and standards. These revisions were released in the Version 2 Handbook of the Procedures and Evidence Standards, which was published in December 2020 (see below). To inform the revisions, HomVEE solicited feedback through a public comment period announced in two simultaneous Federal Register notices (FRNs) published on August 5, 2020. This new brief summarizes HomVEE's approach to addressing key comments from the public and expert consultants in the final Version 2 Handbook.

This handbook describes the methods used by the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) review to review existing research and report the findings. It is designed for use by researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders. For the first time since its inception, HomVEE has substantially revised several procedures and standards for its review. HomVEE consulted with methodological experts and other federal evidence reviews to refine and update the procedures and standards in this document. These changes bring HomVEE generally into alignment with procedures and standards for other federally sponsored systematic evidence reviews, and they address critical topics in the evolution of the home visiting field. HomVEE will apply these procedures and standards beginning with the 2021 annual review.

This document describes the original process and standards HomVEE used to review research from impact studies. (In 2020, HomVEE released its Handbook of Procedures and Standards: Version 2.0; those updated procedures and standards are available elsewhere on this page.)