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Next Steps
The 20 areas selected in this pilot project would serve to guide a
follow-up effort for national prior~ty-setting. The goals of this follow-up
effort would be to:
~ expand the information base for national prion~-setting,
· stimulate the use or implementation of the selected pnonties, and
· modify and improve the pnonty-seuing methodology.
The Institute of Medicine would help coordinate the development of
information resources that would supply current information pertinent to
sewing and acting upon the pnonties. Examples of this information
include existing assessment reports, preliminary results of ongoing evalu-
ative studies, infonnation about the capabilities and interests of assess-
ment programs Mat may be appropriate for conducting these studies, and
relevant data resources.
The Institute of Medicine would convene interest pardes from differ-
ent sectors in Me pnonW-setting process including those that need
assessments and those that conduct assessment ensure Mat Me na-
tional priorities are properly described and presented. In this mariner, the
Institute of Medicine might serve as a coordinator to prompt or encourage
the conduct of high-pnonty evaluations. This activity would be sum
ported, in part, by collecting the information about assessment programs
described above and by working with program representatives to ~econ-
cile the national priorities with appropriate programs. This convening
function would serge to enhance communication between groups Mat
perform studies and groups that need the results of these studies and to
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furler test and develop the consensus approach for setting national pri-
ondes.
Better infonnabon about Me 20 priority areas and increased participa-
don by interested parties win serve as a test for the methodology used In
this study. The pnonW-sethng group that chose We 20 priority assess-
ment areas applied the set of national pnonty-seuing criteria discussed
above. Certainly, We composition and collective expertise of the group
and the methodology used affected the choice of priorities. Furthermore,
We relative importance of some of the topics chosen may change win
time. Therefore, a follow-up effort that would help validate and strengthen
the methodology used in this pilot effort is needed. For instance, a
separate committee or group may undergo a similar process, paying
particular attention to refining the criteria as necessary and to developing
a more quantitative approach for predicting the potential impact of assess-
ments of the candidate priority topics.
Though these efforts the council aims to improve prionty-seuing to
meet national needs. The council offers this pilot effort as We beginning
of a process for enhancing the national capacity to use resources effec-
dvely and efficiently for the evaluation of medical practice, to be raced
five to the concerns of different health care sectors, and to provide timely
information to advance medical practice and improve He quality of pa-
tient care.
The follow-up effort for national pnonty-sefflng proposed here would
address, In pan, the provision in Section 927 of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1989, P.~. 101-239, Hat cans for the Institute of
Medicine 'ho develop and recommend to the Secretary (of Heath and
Human Senrices) priorities for the assessment of specific health care
mchnolog~es under Section 904 of He Public Health Service Act." Sec-
don 904 cans for He Administrator of the new Agency for Heath Care
Policy and Research to promote the development and application of
appropriate health care technology assessments "by identifying needs in,
and establishing priorities for, the assessment of specific health care
technologies," and by other means (IJ.S. Congress, House, 1989~.
win Aspect to infoIInation resources, Section 927 of P.1~. 101-239
also cans for He Institute of Medicine 'ho assist the A~nin~strator for
Heal Cale Policy and Research, and He Director of He National Library
of Medicine, In establishing He information center,' on heath care tech-
nologies and health care technology assessment at He National library of
Medicine, as required by He act. This center could offer the information
resources needed ~ support pnonty-sefflng and assessments of pnon~
topics, as described above.
Representative terms from entire chapter:
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