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B -- AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION PRACTICE RESEARCH NETWORK: ALCOHOL REPORTS SOL AA 99-03 DUE 031599 POC C. Timothy Crilley, Contract Specialist, (301)443-1191 WEB: NIAAA Home Page, http://www.niaaa.nih.gov. E-MAIL: Sandra Reichard, sreichar@willco.niaaa.nih.gov. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) intends to negotiate on a sole-source basis with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for a project entitled "American Psychiatric Associate Practice Research Network: Alcohol Reports." The statutory authority to negotiate with APA is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c)(1). The purpose of the proposed contract is to assist the NIAAA in identifying and understanding how people with alcohol-related problems are served by psychiatrists. The contractor will develop a research agenda for identifying and answering psychiatric clinical and health services alcohol-related research questions. The contractor will provide a series of reports on psychiatric health services and alcohol research topics that follow the contractor-developed research agenda. The proposed series of research queries and data reports will be from an already existing database entitled "Practice Research Network (PRN)." The APA is the sole developer of the PRN, which consists of about 1,000 psychiatrists who pool data to answer practice-relevant research questions. Inquiries must be made writing, telephone inquires are unacceptable. See Note Numbers 22 and 26***** Posted 01/07/99 (W-SN286003). (0007)

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