Workshop B-1:

Approved 1.

Approved 2.

Approved 3.

Workshop B-2:

 

Approved 1,
Approved 2,
Approved 3.

Approved 4.
4 _ Approved 5.

Approved 6.

 

 

Draft of Arthritis Conference Resolutions

 

Kansas City, Missouri, January 20, 1975

Program Documentation

RMP should provide a common data collection system for
uniform documentation of the present projects.

Documentation should be reviewed and evaluated by sub~-
units of RMP, AF, AAOS, and other concerned professional
organizations, and they should develop a plan for future
documentation of arthritis activities.

(Same)

Special Report Opportunities

A national clearinghouse should be established for educa~
tional materials, efforts, and methodologies through the

"Division of Long Term Care, or the Arthritis Foundation,

and these agencies should seek out and maintain contact
with other organizations with educational materials.

(Same) Clarified: request for followup support is to be
issued, and procedure determined by responses.

Central collection and dispersion of data should be under-
taken by the PAR, or some other appropriate entity, under
the specifications and guidance of the AF Computer Committee.

(Same) Clarified to be a comparison of comprehensive
arthritis care to episodic care.

Third party reimbursement should be explored in a coopera-
tive effort by this (conference) group.

(Same)
Workshop B-3: Care Delivery Initiatives

Approved 1. It is recommended that as many as possible of the care
delivery projects of the arthritis program be continued

beyond the present grant period (June 30, 1975), by
availability of RMP funds, or requesting Congress for a
supplementary appropriation, to keep these programs going
during the interim period between the close of RMP and
the time that funds become available under P.L. 93-640,
so as to be able to complete and evaluate present activ-
ities with regard to their effectiveness, and potential
association with future arthritis programs.

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Approved 2. (Same)
Approved 3, (Same)

Approved 4. That this conference request the Commission to be established
under P.L. 93-640 to investigate areas where there are not
now arthritis centers which might nevertheless be deter-
mined appropriate sites for allocation of P.L. 93-640
grant or contract funds.

(This resolution received strong vocal dissent with respect
: to (a) possible duplication of existing P.L. 93-640 terms,
and (b) appropriateness with respect to the perceived main
© thrust of P.L. 93-640.)

Approved 5. (Same)

Workshop B-4: Program Continuity

Approved 1. (Notes do not elaborate on the written summary report).

6.