National Institutes of Health

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This research examines the National Institutes of Health and the connection that this health-related government entity has with the profession of physician's assistant. The research sets forth the context in which the NIH may be useful to the physician's assistant profession in general, and in particular, to the day-to-day performance of assistant duties on behalf of physicians, patients, or both.

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"The best way of getting at the way the NIH can be of use to physicians' assistants is to understand how the NIH, which a health agency under the authority of the U.S. Public Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services, is organized and the principal bureaucratic role it serves in the federal system. As the core document of the NIH explains, the mission of the agency "is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone" (http://www.nih.gov). What that comes down to is that the NIH is meant to function as an authoritative information resource, or, in more up-to-date parlance, as an authoritative data base, upon which practitioners, institutions, and recipients of medical care may draw, with a view toward accomplishing the physical and mental well-being of the body politic, individually and as a mass. The practical form that this mission has taken in recent years has been the emergence of Internet-based health-information resources sponsored and produced by the NIH, either directly, in documents, programs, and policies of its own, or indirectly, by functioning as a conduit to non-NIH resources of which NIH may be aware."

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