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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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