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42 U.S.C. § 286d — National Information Center
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**(a) Establishment** There is established within the Library an entity to be known as the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (in this section referred to as the “Center”).
**(b) Purpose** The purpose of the Center is the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information on health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and on health care technology, including the assessment of such technology. Such purpose includes developing and maintaining data bases and developing and implementing methods of carrying out such purpose.
**(c) Electronic, convenient format; criteria for inclusion** The Director of the Center shall ensure that information under subsection (b) concerning clinical practice guidelines is collected and maintained electronically and in a convenient format. Such Director shall develop and publish criteria for the inclusion of practice guidelines and technology assessments in the information center database.
**(d) Coordination with Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality** The Secretary, acting through the Center, shall coordinate the activities carried out under this section through the Center with related activities of the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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**(a) Establishment** There is established within the Library an entity to be known as the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (in this section referred to as the “Center”).
**(b) Purpose** The purpose of the Center is the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information on health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and on health care technology, including the assessment of such technology. Such purpose includes developing and maintaining data bases and developing and implementing methods of carrying out such purpose.
**(c) Electronic, convenient format; criteria for inclusion** The Director of the Center shall ensure that information under subsection (b) concerning clinical practice guidelines is collected and maintained electronically and in a convenient format. Such Director shall develop and publish criteria for the inclusion of practice guidelines and technology assessments in the information center database.
**(d) Coordination with Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality** The Secretary, acting through the Center, shall coordinate the activities carried out under this section through the Center with related activities of the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 286b–8
editing, and publication of reviews, abstracts,
indices, handbooks, bibliographies, and related
matter pertaining to scientific works and sci-
entific developments.
(b) Grants under subsection (a) in support of
any single periodical publication may not be
made for more than three years, except in those
cases in which the Secretary determines that
further support is necessary to carry out the
purposes of subsection (a).
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 476, as added Pub.
L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 863.)
§ 286b–8. Grant payments, records, and audit
(a) Payments under grants made under sec-
tions 286b–3, 286b–4, 286b–5, 286b–6, and 286b–7 of
this title may be made in advance or by way of
reimbursement and in such installments as the
Secretary shall prescribe by regulation after
consultation with the Board.
(b)(1) Each recipient of a grant under this sub-
part shall keep such records as the Secretary
shall prescribe, including records which fully
disclose the amount and disposition by such re-
cipient of the proceeds of such grant, the total
cost of the project or undertaking in connection
with which such grant is given or used, and the
amount of that portion of the cost of the project
or undertaking supplied by other sources, and
such other records as will facilitate an effective
audit.
(2) The Secretary and the Comptroller General
of the United States, or any of their duly au-
thorized representatives, shall have access for
the purpose of audit and examination to any
books, documents, papers, and records of such
recipients that are pertinent to any grant re-
ceived under this subpart.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 477, as added Pub.
L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985,
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