[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 10, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45740-45741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-17292]


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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: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., July 25, 2002.
    Place: Hotel Monaco, 225 North Wabash, Chicago, IL, (312) 960-
8500.
    Status: Open.

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Purpose

    The purpose of the meeting is to provide the NCVHS Work Group on 
Quality with expert opinion and information about the adequacy of 
existing health data systems for supporting quality measurement at 
the individual practitioner level and to identify needed 
improvements in existing data and data collection mechanisms. The 
scope of interest includes administrative data, vital records data, 
medical records data and survey data. At the meeting, an invited 
panel of experts will provide their perspectives on these issues.
    In addition, the Work Group will hear from invited panels of 
experts about topic areas to be included in the National Healthcare 
Quality Report, including the Preliminary Measure Set for the report 
now under development within the Agency for Healthcare Research and 
Quality. The AHRQ Preliminary Measure Set will be available on the 
AHRQ website after July 12. The Institute of Medicine has 
recommended a framework and criteria for selecting measures for the 
National Healthcare Quality Report, and AHRQ has prepared a draft 
list of proposed topic areas and measures to be included. 
Information about the AHRQ Preliminary Measure Set may be obtained 
by contacting: Ed Kelly, Ph.D., Senior Service Fellow, National 
Healthcare Quality Report, Center for Quality Improvement and 
Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 6011 
Executive Boulevard, Suite 200, Rockville, MD 20852, [email protected]
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Substantive program information 
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of NCVHS Committee 
members may be obtained from Stanely Edinger Ph.D., Lead Staff 
Person for the NCVHS 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: July 3, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-17292 Filed 7-9-02; 8:45 am]
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