...services. The Agency is to do this through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical...financing, and delivery of health care services. The agency will conduct and support research, demonstration projects, evaluations, training, and the dissemination...

...of 1989 (HR 2061), and to provide our general comments on the need for an expanded research effort in clinical practice, and In the organization, financing and delivery of health services. I am Robert M. Centor, MD, FACP, a Fellow of the College; I have been a contributor to such...

...with enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-239). The purpose of the Agency, as stated by law, is to enhance the quality,...Assessment, previously funded in the Office of the Assistant Secrecary for Health. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research is the newest agency of the Public...

...services. This will be accomplished through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical...and delivery of health care services. The new agency replaces the former National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment....

...services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical...financing, and delivery of health care services." (Public Law No. 101-229, sec. 6(a)) The Agency is to accomplish this purpose by conducting and supporting...

...services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of Improvements In clinical...financing, and delivery of health care services". Beginning prior to the establishment of the Agency, (when such activities were conducted through Its...

...services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical...financing, and delivery of health care services." (Public Law No. 101229, sec. 6(a)) The Agency is to accomplish this purpose by conducting and supporting...

...such £ .c services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and "S $ .° through the promotion of improvements in clinical...organization, financing, and delivery of health care services. "(c) Appointment of Administrator. — There shall be at the head of the Agency an official to be known...

...services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical...organization, financing, and delivery of health care services. (c) APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. — There shall be at the head of the Agency an official to be known...

...and effectiveness of health care services and access to such services through scientific research, promotion of improvements in clinical practice, and...organization, financing, and delivery of health care services. In fiscal year 1991 $48.5 million in obligational authority is requested for the Medical Treatment...