Epidural Analgesia for Normal Vaginal Deliveries

• Identification #: 93-001
• Date: 11/12/1992
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Health Resources Sharing for Joint Venture Construction

This MOU establishes procedures to be used by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to plan, program, and execute joint venture construction projects for health care facilities.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 9/27/1992
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Use of Prosthetic Equipmenet and Expertise

This MOU specifically encourages use of VA prosthetics for active duty DoD amputees while in MTFs and addresses transfer of active duty amputee patients to VA medical centers for prosthetic equipment and rehabilitation.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 9/21/1992
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Navy BUMED Instruction 6010.13: Quality Assurance Program

This instruction establishes policy, publishes procedures and assigns responsibilities for quality assurance and risk management activities in Navy fixed (shore-bawsed with permanent structures) and non-fixed (moveable shore or fleet-based) medical and dental treatment facilities.

• Identification #: 6010.13
• Date: 8/19/1991
• Type: Instructions
• Topics: Access, Cost, Quality, and Safety, Patient Safety, Quality of Care

Final Rule Animal Welfare

Often referred to as the "Preamble" to the Animal Welfare Act amendments of 1985, the explanations of the regulations are used to identify the intent of the regulations published in Title 9, Code of Federal Regulations. This issue contains final regulations developed to enact the 1985 amendments to the Animal Welfare Act covering the Definitions and Regulations sections. Extensive commentary is provided to respond to public comments about each of the proposed regulations. Comments and final regulations are provided in many areas including the structure and functions of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee; the principal investigator's consideration of alternatives that reduce, refine, or replace animal use; records; licensing; registration; stolen animals; and research facilities.

• Identification #: Federal Register, Vol. 54, No. 168, August 31, 1989, P. 36112-36163
• Date: 8/31/1989
• Type: Federal Regulations
• Topics: Research Regulatory Oversight Office

Department of the Army Hearing Conservation Program

This pamphlet updates the U.S. Army Hearing Conservation Program requirements prescribed by policy contained in Department of Defense Instruction 6055.12

• Identification #: AR 40-501
• Date: 12/10/1988
• Type: Federal Regulations
• Topics: N/A

Medical Information Resource Sharing

In furtherance of Public Law 97-174 this MOU is intended to encourage sharing by establishing a structured forum to jointly consider and implement medical information resources management and information sharing interagency agreements between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Vetercins Administration (V~} in the areas of data exchange/sharing, system architecture/planning, technology/innovation evaluation, system interoperability, and data communications.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 11/28/1988
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Transportation of Certain VA Patients on DoD Aeromedical Evacuation Aircraft

This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) defines responsibilities and establishes procedures for transporting certain VA patients who are not Uniformed Services beneficiaries aboard DOD aeromedical evacuation aircraft. Further, this MOU provides guidelines and procedures for applying transportation rates and establishes methods for reimbursing DOD for expense-related to movement of these veterans.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 7/1/1988
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Referral of Active Duty Patients to VA Medical Facilities

This MOU is intended to establish reimbursement procedures for active duty military treated at VA medical facilities when their treatment is not otherwise governed by procedures established in a local agreement.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 6/10/1986
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Three-Part National Research Council Series Reports on Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Chemical Agents (1982-1985)

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 1/1/1986
• Type: Guidelines
• Topics: Environmental Exposures, Chemical and Biological Exposures

Belmont Report

On July 12, 1974, the National Research Act (Pub. L. 93-348) was signed into law, there-by creating the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. One of the charges to the Commission was to identify the basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects and to develop guidelines which should be followed to assure that such research is conducted in accordance with those principles. The Belmont Report attempts to summarize the basic ethical principles identified by the Commission in the course of its deliberations.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 4/18/1979
• Type: Guidelines
• Topics: Research Regulatory Oversight Office

10 U.S. Code 1074: Medical and Dental Care for Members and Certain Former Members

10 U.S. Code § 1074 - Medical and dental care for members and certain former members

• Identification #: 10 U.S. Code 1074
• Date: 9/2/1958
• Type: Title 10
• Topics: Supplemental Health Care Program