[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 63243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30151]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of 
Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Populations--Working Group on Quality.
    Time and Date: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m, December 12, 2001.
    Place: Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of the meeting is to hear testimony on public 
and private sector data collection and reporting activities in the area 
of patient safety. The presenters will be asked to address limitations 
in the current data infrastructure for identifying and reporting on 
medical errors and other safety-related measures of the quality of 
health care in the U.S.
    Notice: In the interest of security, the Department has instituted 
stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. Humphrey Building by 
non-government employees. Thus, persons without a government 
identification card will need to have the guard call for an escort to 
the meeting.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of Committee 
members may be obtained from Stanley Edinger Ph.D., Lead Staff Person 
for the HCVHS Subcommittee on Special Populations, Working Group on 
Quality, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 6011 East 
Jefferson Street, Suite 200, #106, Rockville, MD 20852, telephone (301) 
594-1598; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, 
CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, 
Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 458-4245. Information also is available 
on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs, where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available.

    Dated: November 27, 2001.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 01-30151 Filed 12-4-01; 8:45 am]
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