[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 101 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-12809]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Veterans Health Administration
Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Services, and
Rehabilitation Research and Development Subcommittee on Scientific
Review and Evaluation for Health Services Research and Development
Service; Meeting
The Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration,
gives notice under Public Law 92-463, that a meeting of the Advisory
Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Service, and Rehabilitation
Research and Development Subcommittee on Scientific Review and
Evaluation for Health Services Research and Development will be held at
The Best Western Boston, Inn at Children's, 342 Longwood Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts, June 1 through June 3, 1994. The session on June
1, 1994, is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. The
sessions scheduled for June 2 and 3 are scheduled to begin at 8 a.m.
and end at 5 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to review research and
development applications concerned with the measurement and evaluation
of health care systems and with testing new methods of health care
delivery and management. Applications are reviewed for scientific and
technical merit and recommendations regarding their funding are
prepared for the Associate Chief Medical Director for Research and
Development.
The meeting will be open to the public (to the seating capacity of
the room) at the start of the June 1 session for approximately one hour
to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general status of
the program. The closed portion of the meeting involves discussion,
examination, reference to, and oral review of staff and consultant
critiques of research protocols, and similar documents. During this
portion of the meeting, discussion and recommendations will deal with
qualifications of personnel conducting the studies, the disclosure of
which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy, as well as research information, the premature disclosure of
which would be likely to significantly frustrate implementation of
proposed agency action regarding such research projects. As provided by
the subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-
409, closing portions of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C.
552(c)(6) and (9)(B).
Due to the limited seating capacity of the room, those who plan to
attend the open session should contact Mr. Bill, Judy, Review Program
Manager (12B3), Health Services Research and Development Service,
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, Washington, DC
20420 (phone: 202-523-7425) at least five days before the meeting.
Dated: May 17, 1994.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-12809 Filed 5-25-94; 8:45 am]
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