[Federal Register: July 10, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 132)]
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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, ekelly@ahrq.gov
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.
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