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Surgeon General Reports, SAMHSA TIPs, SAMHSA PEPs  AHCPR Archived Technology AssessmentsSimultaneous Pancreas-Kidney and Sequential Pancreas-After-Kidney Transplantation  August 1995Prepared by: Thomas V. Holohan, M.D., FACP Health Technology Assessment Number 4 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Rockville, Maryland August 1995 AHCPR Pub. No. 95-0065 View the Medline Citation and Related Citations using PubMed ForewordThe Office of Health Technology Assessment (OHTA) evaluates the risk, benefits, and clinical effectiveness of new or unestablished medical technologies. In most instances, assessments address technologies that are being reviewed for purposes of coverage by federally funded health programs. OHTA's assessment process includes a comprehensive review of the medical literature and emphasizes broad and open participation from within and outside the Federal Government. A range of expert advice is obtained by widely publicizing the plans for conducting the assessment through publication of an announcement in the Federal Register and solicitation of input from Federal agencies, medical specialty societies, insurers, and manufacturers. The involvement of these experts helps ensure inclusion of the experienced and varyinng viewpoints needed to round out the data derived from individual scientific studies in the medical literature. OHTA analyzed and synthesized data and formation received from experts and the scientific literature. The results are reported in this assessment. Each assessment represents a detailed analysis of the risks, clinical effectiveness, and uses of new or unestablished medical technologies. If an assessment has been prepared to form the basis for a coverage decision by a federally financed health care program, it serves as the Public Health Service's recommendation to that program and is disseminated widely. OHTA is one component of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
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