§299b — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Agency must work with public and private experts to find and share ways to check and score health care research. It must make those scoring methods easy to get. Any Agency report that gives a health care recommendation must show how strong the evidence is using those methods. The Agency must also use research approaches that connect studies directly to clinical care in many places across the United States. That includes using improvement centers, provider-based research networks (like plans, hospitals, and primary care sites), and other new methods. The Director can set the rules for groups that apply for these grants.

Title 42, §299b

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(a)In collaboration with experts from the public and private sector, the Agency shall identify and disseminate methods or systems to assess health care research results, particularly methods or systems to rate the strength of the scientific evidence underlying health care practice, recommendations in the research literature, and technology assessments. The Agency shall make methods or systems for evidence rating widely available. Agency publications containing health care recommendations shall indicate the level of substantiating evidence using such methods or systems.

(b)(1)In order to address the full continuum of care and outcomes research, to link research to practice improvement, and to speed the dissemination of research findings to community practice settings, the Agency shall employ research strategies and mechanisms that will link research directly with clinical practice in geographically diverse locations throughout the United States, including—

(A)health care improvement research centers that combine demonstrated multidisciplinary expertise in outcomes or quality improvement research with linkages to relevant sites of care;

(B)provider-based research networks, including plan, facility, or delivery system sites of care (especially primary care), that can evaluate outcomes and evaluate and promote quality improvement; and

(C)other innovative mechanisms or strategies to link research with clinical practice.

(2)The Director is authorized to establish the requirements for entities applying for grants under this subsection.

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A prior section 299b, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IX, § 911, as added Pub. L. 101–239, title VI, § 6103(a), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2192; amended Pub. L. 102–410, § 5(b), Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 2097, related to establishment of Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 106–129. Another prior section 299b, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IX, § 902, as added Oct. 6, 1965, Pub. L. 89–239, § 2, 79 Stat. 927; amended Oct. 15, 1968, Pub. L. 90–574, title I, § 103, 82 Stat. 1005; Oct. 30, 1970, Pub. L. 91–515, title I, §§ 104, 111(b), 84 Stat. 1299, 1301, defined terms for purposes of this subchapter, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–117, § 12(d), Oct. 7, 1985, 99 Stat. 495.

§299b Health care outcome improvement research

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Title 42, §299b

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