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R -- SOLICIT AND DEVELOP A SERIES OF PAPERS SOL 99R260967 POC Carol A. Wood, Contracting Officer, (301)-443-2329 WEB: Program Support Center, Program Support Center. E-MAIL: Program Support Center, CWOOD@PSC.GOV. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (ACHPR), through the General Acquisitions Branch, Program Support Center (PSC), intends to award a fourteen (14) month sole source simplified acquisition to Health Research and Educational Trust to develop a series of papers that will address the topic "Use of Instrumental Variables in Health Services Research". The purpose of the project is to disseminate the most recent advances in the application of instrumental variables to health services research. Primary attention will be given to studies examining the clinical outcomes of care in addition to papers dealing with cost, use and access. Closing date is August 20, 1999. No solicitation is available. See numbered Note 22. Posted 08/06/99 (W-SN364786). (0218)

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