"The federal funding project reaffirms FCER's commitment to research that is conducted within accepted methods of data collection and analysis," said Steve Wolk, Ph.D., FCER's executive director. "Only by strictly adhering to these standards can the results of the project be appropriate to policymaking."
The study is designed to first collect and summarize information and, in its final stages, explore possible reasons and solutions for the absence of federal funding. Corporate Health Policies Group (CHPG), the Washington-based health care consulting firm that is conducting the project, has completed two of the critical data-gathering phases of the study.
To learn why federal funds are not currently available to the chiropractic profession, prominent federal officials are being interviewed. CHPG investigators have conducted in-depth interviews with representatives from the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases; the Health Resources and Services Administration; the Bureau of Health Professions; the Department of Education; the National Center for Educational Statistics; and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Much of the research that could receive federal funding takes place at the chiropractic colleges. For this reason, an important part of the data-gathering phase of the project is taking place at the colleges. Site visits have been completed at National College of Chiropractic, Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Cleveland Chiropractic College/Kansas City, Palmer College of Chiropractic/West, and Life Chiropractic College. Survey forms from all the chiropractic colleges in the United States are also being processed.
Projects like the federal funding project are part of FCER's ongoing commitment to the future of chiropractic through research and education.
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