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 PUBLIC LAW 93-640-JAN. 4, 1975

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"(b) The Committee shall meet at the call of the chairman, but not less often than four times a year. "ARTHRITIS SCREENING, DETECTION, PREVENTION, AND REFERRAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS; AND DATA BANK

42 USC 289C-5.

Coordination with Federal, State, and other agencies. Intra.

Arthritis Screening and Detection Data Bank. Establishment.

P a t i e n t data and recordkeeping, standardization.

Appropriations.

"SEC. 438. (a) The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Health, may make grants to public and nonprofit entities to establish and support projects for the development and demonstration of methods for arthritis, screening, detection, prevention, and referral, and for the dissemination of these methods to health and allied health professions. Activities under such projects shall be coordinated with (1) Federal, State, local, and regional health agencies, (2) centers assisted under section 439, and (3) the data bank under subsection (c). "(b) Projects under this section shall include programs which— "(1) emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods of screening and early detection, referral, and diagnosis of individuals with a risk of developing arthritis, asymptomatic arthritis, or symptomatic arthritis; "(2) emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods for patient referral from local hospitals and physicians to appropriate centers for early diagnosis and treatment; "(3) emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved means of standardizing patient data and recordkeeping; and " (4) emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods of dissemination of knowledge about the projects and methods referred to in the preceding paragraphs of this subsection to health and allied health professionals. "(c)(1) As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this section the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Health, shall establish the Arthritis Screening and Detection Data Bank for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of data useful in screening, prevention, and early detection involving patient populations with asymptomatic and symptomatic types of arthritis, including where possible, data involving general populations for the purpose of detection of individuals with a risk of developing arthritis. "(2) The Secretary shall provide for standardization of patient data and recordkeeping for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of such data in cooperation with projects under this section and centers assisted under section 439, and other persons engaged in arthritis programs, " (d) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $2,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $3,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and $4,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1977. uC O M P R E H E N S IV E A R T H R I T I S

42 USC 289C-6.

CENTERS

439. (a) The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Health may, after consultation with the National Advisory 42 USC 289C-1. Council established under section 434(a) and consistent with the Arthritis Plan developed pursuant to the National Arthritis Act of Ante, p. 2217. 1974, providc for the development, modernization, and operation (including staffing and other operating costs such as the costs of patient care required for research) of centers for arthritis research, screening, detection, diagnosis, prevention, control, and treatment, for education related to arthritis, and for rehabilitation of individuals "Modemizawho suffer from arthritis. For purposes of this section, the term '°"*" 'modernization' means the alteration, remodeling, improvement. "SE(^;.

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