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neering sciences to deal with all facets of arthritis, including traumatic arthritis; (5) programs for the conduct and direction of field studies largescale testing, evaluation, and demonstration of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and control approaches to arthritis, including studies of the effectiveness and use of home care programs, mobile care units, community rehabilitation facilities, and other appropriate community public health and social services; (6) studies of the feasibility of, and possible benefits accruing from, the organization and training of teams of health and allied health professionals in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals who suffer from arthritis; (7) programs to evaluate available resources for the rehabilitation of individuals who suffer from arthritis; (8) programs to develop new and improved methods of screening and referral for arthritis, and particularly for the early detection of arthritis; (9) programs to establish standards and criteria for measurement of the severity and rehabilitative potential of disabilities resulting from arthritis; (10) programs to develop a uniform descriptive vocabulary for use in basic and clinical research and a standardized clinical patient data set for arthritis to standardize collection, storage, and retrieval of research and treatment data in order to facilitate collaborative and comparative studies of large patient populations; (11) programs to establish a system for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data useful in the screening, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of arthritis, including the establishment of a national data storage bank to collect, catalog, and store, and facilitate retrieval and dissemination of information as to the practical application of research and other activities pertaining to arthritis; (12) programs for the education (including continuing education programs and development of new techniques and curricula) of scientists, bioengineers, physicians engaged m general practice, the practice of family medicine, or other primary care specialties, surgeons, including orthopedic surgeons, and other health and allied health professionals and educators in the fields and specialties requisite to screening, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and rehabilitation of individuals who suffer from arthritis; (13) programs for public education and counseling relating to arthritis, including public information campaigns on current developments in diagnostic and treatment procedures and programs to discourage the promotion and use of unapproved and ineffective diagnostic, preventive, treatment, and control methods and unapproved and ineffective drugs and devices; (14) a program for the acceleration of international cooperation in and exchange of knowledge on research, screening, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of arthritis; and Research pro(15) coordiuation of the research programs relevant to arthrina^i^n.'^""'^ ' tis of othcr Institutes of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and other Federal and non-Federal entities. Hearings. ^}j^ q^j^g Commission may hold such hearings, take such testimony, and sit at such time and places as it deems advisable. timaTe^s""" ''" (i)(1) Tl^e CommissioM shall prepare for each of the Institutes of the National Iiistitutcs of Health whose activities are to be affected by

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