§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 judge health care research. It must create and make widely available tools that rate how strong the scientific evidence is for medical practices, recommendations, and technology reviews. Agency reports that make recommendations must show the evidence level using those tools. The Agency must link research directly to clinical care across many places in the United States. It will do this through things like research centers that focus on improving care, provider-based research networks (including plans, clinics, and especially primary care), and other new methods. The Director can set the rules for who may apply for 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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