Call for Public Review | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

Call for Public Review | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

Draft Review Open for Comment: Date Extended

The comment period for the draft Technology Assessment report open for review, Skin Substitutes for Treating Chronic Wounds, has been extended to March 8, 2019, due to an error in the comments form.

To access the draft report and to submit comments, go to https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/ta/call-for-public-review.html.

Please Note: If you have already submitted comments on this draft report, they have been received. You do not need to resend.

Call for Public Review

Technology Assessment for Public Comment

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Technology Assessment (TA) Program develops systematic reviews, health technology assessments, and other reports at the request of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage and Analysis Group. These reports are funded by an Interagency Agreement from CMS to AHRQ and used to inform national coverage policies, discussion at public Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meetings, and/or for other policy considerations.

To get complete public review, the AHRQ TA Program will post draft reports on the AHRQ TA Web site. To meet the timelines for Medicare coverage decisions mandated by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, draft technology assessment reports will be available for public review for a limited time. A notice will be sent out on the AHRQ Effective Health Care email distribution list 1 week before the posting of draft reports. Each report will be available for public review on this Web site for a total of 3 weeks.

AHRQ's TA Program supports and is committed to the transparency of its review process. Therefore, starting March 18, 2009, invited peer review comments and public review comments will be publicly posted on the TA Program Web sitewithin 3 months after the associated final report is posted on this Web site. The report authors' responses to the comments (the "disposition of comments") will be posted on the same Web page as the associated comments.

Draft Available for Review

Skin Substitutes for Treating Chronic Wounds: PDF (730.75 KB); Appendix PDF (1 MB)
Available for Review: 9:00 am, February 13 through 5:00 pm, March 8, 2019 (extended from March 6)

Submit a Public Review.

Note: If you experience any difficulty when submitting your comment, please contact epc@ahrq.hhs.gov for assistance.

Review Steps

When a draft Technology Assessment report is available for review, you may review the draft report by completing the associated review form and then selecting "Submit" on the form.

Note: Comments received after the review period will not be accepted.

Disclosure Policy for AHRQ Technology Assessment Program Public Review

Original Implementation Date: March 12, 2009; Most Recent Revision: November 19, 2013

The AHRQ Technology Assessment (TA) Program supports and is committed to the transparency of its public review process. Review comments that are submitted in response to a public review announcement and received during a draft report review period will be publicly posted to the TA Program within 3 months after the associated final report is posted on this Web site. Each review comment will be listed with the reviewer’s name and affiliation, if such information is provided. Reviewers are not required to provide their name or affiliation in order to submit comments. Please note that if reviewers include identifiable personal health information, it will be redacted. The report authors’ responses to the comments (the “disposition of comments”) will be posted on the same Web page as the associated comments.

Questions

Please contact epc@ahrq.hhs.gov if you have any questions.

Page last reviewed March 2019
Page originally created September 2012

Internet Citation: Call for Public Review. Content last reviewed March 2019. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/ta/call-for-public-review.html