Health Care Policy and Research: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5346, a Bill Relating to Native Hawaiian Health Care, and for Other Purposes, July 20, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 150 pages |
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Page 134 - The legislation also established within AHCPR the Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care (the Forum).
Page 128 - The purpose of the Agency is to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health care services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical practice (including the prevention of diseases and other health conditions) and in the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services.
Page 9 - One thing that impressed me . . . was the fact that the natives of the island who are our wards, I should say, and for whom in a sense we are trustees, are falling off rapidly in numbers and many of them are in poverty.".
Page 74 - As patient outcomes research is completed and clinical practice guidelines developed, results will be widely disseminated through professional journal publications, the consumer and trade press, and the mass media, as well as information networks and conferences sponsored by AHCPR. The resources and expertise of the National Library of Medicine and the Health Resources and Services Administration will continue to be used to convey final research and guideline results.
Page 115 - A comparison of results of metaanalyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts.
Page 26 - There are authorized to be appropriated such 6 sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry 1 out his functions and duties.
Page 51 - Your prepared statements will be made part of the record in full. We would like to ask you to summarize those statements in no more than 5 minutes.
Page 87 - Research (AHSR) is the national professional association of health services researchers and users of research. It has 1800 individual members and 115 institutional members throughout the United Slates.
Page 95 - Applicants must be proposing projects for promoting improvements in clinical practice and in the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services.
Page 55 - ... the information provided in this Clinical Practice Guideline. The recommendations may not be appropriate for use in all circumstances. Decisions to adopt any particular recommendation must be made by the practitioner in light of available resources and circumstances presented by individual patients. J. Jarrett Clinton, MD Administrator Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Foreword This Clinical Practice Guideline (Depression in Primary Care: Volume 1.