National Health Service reporting systems

Every healthcare system uses reporting systems of various kinds, which have different purposes. To illustrate the principal types, we will examine reporting systems in the British National Health Service (NHS) and some of the problems of the existing abundance of poorly integrated systems. As a national system, the NHS should, in principle be able to develop a more rational system than, say, the United States with its hugely heterogeneous system of public and privately... 

Other important documents in HSTAT include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference Reports and Technology Assessment Reports the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) resource documents the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT) Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIP) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP) Prevention Enhancement Protocols System (PEPS) the Public Health Service (PHS) Preventive Services Task Force s Guide to Clinical Preventive Services the independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Services Guide to Community Preventive Services and the Health Technology Advisory Committee (HTAC) of the Minnesota Health Care Commission (MHCC) health technology evaluations. 

The ABA s Central Office is working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness to establish and maintain a real-time burn bed availability program for the nation. In the recent past, the ABA worked with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research on a burn bed resource capacity project. The ABA Central Office will continue to work with HHS and others to develop and maintain a real-time burn bed resource capacity reporting system. 

Albrecht WN. 1980. Technical assistance report TA80-48. Chemical Recovery Systems, Inc., Elyria, OH. Cincinnati, OH U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. NIOSH-HE/TA-80-48. NTIS PB81-167926. 

NTP. 1990. Chemical status report produced from NTP chemtrack system (database). Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program, Division of Toxicology Research and Testing, Research Triangle Park, NC. January 10, 1990. 

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