[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 52 (Thursday, March 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14283-14284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6430]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Notice of Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and 
Availability

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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    The Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability will meet 
on Tuesday, April 25, 2000, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Wednesday, 
April 26, 2000 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The meeting will take place at the 
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel, 400 New Jersey Ave., NW., Washington, 
DC 20001. The meeting will be entirely open to the public.
    On April 25 the Committee will consider how strategies to reduce 
errors and accidents in transfusion medicine can reconcile the right of 
the patient to know the consequences of any treatment received, the 
need of regulatory agencies for information necessary for them to 
fulfill their statutory oversight responsibilities, and the interest of 
society in perfecting mechanisms that identify and correct latent, 
life-threatening flaws in critical health care systems.
    On April 26 the Committee will consider incremental reimbursement

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policies for blood and blood products in response to the introduction 
of new safety measures.
    Public comment will be solicited both days. Public comment will be 
limited to three minutes per speaker. Those who wish to have printed 
material distributed to Advisory Committee members should submit thirty 
(30) copies to the Executive Secretary prior to close of business April 
10, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen D. Nightingale, M.D., 
Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and 
Availability, Department of Health and Human Servcies, Office of Public 
Health and Safety, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Rm 736E, Washington, DC 
20201. Phone (202) 690-5560 FAX (202) 690-7560 e-mail 
stephendnightingale@osophs. dhhs.gov.

    Dated: March 9, 2000.
Stephen D. Nightingale,
Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and 
Availability.
[FR Doc. 00-6430 Filed 3-15-00; 8:45 am]
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