[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 36 (Friday, February 22, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12422-12423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04049]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit
Review Board, Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, 5 United States Code Appendix 2, that the
Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit
Review Board will conduct telephone conference call and web-conference
based meetings of its six Health Services Research (HSR) subcommittees
and its Nursing Research Initiative (NRI) subcommittee. The HSR
subcommittees are: HSR 1--Medical Care and Clinical Management; HSR 2--
Patient and Special Population
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Determinants of Health and Care; HSR 3--Methods and Modeling for
Research, Informatics, and Surveillance; HSR 4--Mental and Behavioral
Health; HSR 5--Health Care System Organization and Delivery, and HSR
6--Post-acute and Long-term Care. The telephone conference call of its
NRI subcommittee will be held on March 1, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The HSR subcommittee meetings will be held on March 5-6, 2013, from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Each of these meetings will originate from offices
within the Office of Research and Development, 131 M Street NE.,
Washington, DC.
The purpose of the Board is to review health services research and
development applications involving the measurement and evaluation of
health care services, the testing of new methods of health care
delivery and management, and nursing research. Applications are
reviewed for scientific and technical merit, mission relevance, and the
protection of human and animal subjects. Recommendations regarding
funding are submitted to the Chief Research and Development Officer.
Each subcommittee meeting of the Board will be open to the public
at the start of the first day of the meetings for approximately one
half-hour to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general
status of the program. The remaining portion of each subcommittee
meeting will be closed for the discussion, examination, reference, and
oral review of the intramural research proposals and critiques. During
the closed portion of each subcommittee meeting, discussion and
recommendations will include qualifications of the personnel conducting
the studies as well as research information. The disclosure of this
information would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy, and the premature disclosure of research information could
significantly compromise the implementation of proposed agency action
regarding such research projects. As provided by subsection 10(d) of
Public Law 92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-409, closing the meeting
is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
No oral or written comments will be accepted from the public for
either portion of the meetings. Those who plan to participate on a
telephone conference call during the open portion of a subcommittee
meeting should contact Ms. Kristy Benton-Grover, Designated Federal
Officer and Program Manager, Scientific Merit Review Board, Department
of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service
(10P9H), 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 20420. For further
information, please call Mrs. Benton-Grover at (202) 443-5728 or by
email at [email protected].
Dated: February 15, 2013.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-04049 Filed 2-21-13; 8:45 am]
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