An insider's perspective on the near-death experience of AHCPR.
Clifton R Gaus
Health affairs 2003 DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.w3.311 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Near-death experience |
| Key points | Argues that AHCPR's survival during 1995-1996 resulted from restructuring program priorities and building support from health care associations and leaders, with a fortunate sequence of events also contributing. This episode exemplifies the ongoing struggle of health services research to secure federal budget priority. |
Abstract
The story of AHCPR's struggle with Congress to remain a federal agency is an example of the longer struggle health services research (HSR) has had to hold a priority in the federal budget. But from another perspective, the growth of HSR has been substantial, albeit an up-and-down experience. Its survival during the turbulent years of 1995-1996 is attributed to a fundamental restructuring of its program priorities and building a new base of support from major health care associations and leaders. A fortunate sequence of events also contributed to the reversal of what could have been a cataclysmic occurrence for the field of HSR.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on near-death experience, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times | 1987 | Historical analysis | |
| Neuroscience and the Near-Death Experience: Roles for the NMSA-PCP receptor, the sigma receptor and the endopsychosins | 1990 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Implications of near-death experiences for a postmaterialist psychology. | 2010 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Near-Death Experience as a Probe to Explore (Disconnected) Consciousness | 2020 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Near-death experiences between science and prejudice | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |