42 U.S.C. § 284p — Activities of the National Institutes of Health with respect to research with implications for enhancing daily function for persons with paralysis

submitted 17 years ago by Pub. L. 111-11 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 231 words · no verdicts yet

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NIH's Director may fund networks of clinical sites that design rehabilitation treatments and outcome measures for paralysis caused by nervous system trauma, disorders, or stroke. These networks may study mobility, behavioral adaptation, therapy effectiveness, and assistive technology. The Director may coordinate these networks and require periodic reports on their work.

(a) In general. The Director may fund grants to public or private entities to plan, set up, improve, and provide basic operating support for multicenter networks of clinical sites. These networks design clinical rehabilitation treatment plans and outcome measures for one or more forms of paralysis caused by central nervous system trauma, disorders, stroke, or a combination of these. (b) Research. A funded network may: (1) focus on key scientific areas, including improving functional mobility; helping people adapt behaviorally to functional loss, especially to prevent secondary complications; testing how well rehabilitation therapies, practices, and assistive technologies work; developing better assistive technology; and understanding how the whole body responds to physical impairments and disabilities; and (2) replicate other researchers' or network members' findings for scientific and translational purposes. (c) Coordination of clinical trials networks. The Director may coordinate information among funded networks, ensure regular communication between them, and require periodic reports on their activities.

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(a) In general

The Director, pursuant to the general authority of the Director, may make awards of grants to public or private entities to pay all or part of the costs of planning, establishing, improving, and providing basic operating support to multicenter networks of clinical sites that will collaborate to design clinical rehabilitation intervention protocols and measures of outcomes on one or more forms of paralysis that result from central nervous system trauma, disorders, or stroke, or any combination of such conditions.

(b) Research

A multicenter network of clinical sites funded through this section may—

(1)

focus on areas of key scientific concern, including—

(A)

improving functional mobility;

(B)

promoting behavioral adaptation to functional losses, especially to prevent secondary complications;

(C)

assessing the efficacy and outcomes of medical rehabilitation therapies and practices and assisting technologies;

(D)

developing improved assistive technology to improve function and independence; and

(E)

understanding whole body system responses to physical impairments, disabilities, and societal and functional limitations; and

(2)

replicate the findings of network members or other researchers for scientific and translation purposes.

The Director may, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among networks funded through this section and ensure regular communication among members of the networks, and may require the periodic preparation of reports on the activities of the networks and submission of reports to the Director.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–11, title XIV, § 14201, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1453.)

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2009Enacted · Pub. L. 111-11 · 123 Stat. 1453

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