...consists of clinical practice guidelines, sometimes also referred to as appropriateness guidelines. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service, created in 1989 has as one of lts mandates, the task of developing of practice guidelines for dissemination...

...the Secretary on rural health issues and administers the State Office of Rural Health program. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service is responsible for evaluating the effectiveness and appropriateness of medical care, and is required...

...National Center for Health Services Research (NCHSR) and the creation of a successor institution, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services, with multiple sources of funding including in particular...

...research on the effectiveness of medical treatment. This research will be carried out primarily by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service. Page 2 GAO/IMTEC-91-65 HCFA Data Center Expansion B-244854 HCFA requested and received a delegation...

...guidelines or standards. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, Public Law 101-239, established the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service to promulgate guidelines and standards of quality and other "performance measures." No provision was made...

...guidelines or standards. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, Public Law 101-239, established the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service to promulgate guidelines and standards of quality and other "performance measures." No provision was made...

...sufficiently clear and accurate so that the clinician can choose the appropriate course of action. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, within the Public Health Service, has established a private sector clinical guideline panel on mammography. This panel has begun to synthesize...

...important project. I am accompanied today by Dr. J. Jarrett Clinton, who is the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Clinton will address questions you may have regarding...