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Evidence-based Report public comment process

The Health Evidence Review Commission posts draft coverage guidances, multisector intervention reports, scope statements and other documents to this website during public comment periods as they become available. Comments on draft reports submitted during these formal comment periods will be reviewed in a public meeting and receive a written response from the Commission.

Unless otherwise indicated, formal public comment periods are at least 30 days for an initial posting and 21 days for subsequent postings.

For scope statements, the public comment is open for 7 days; comments on scope statements are reviewed in a public meeting but do not receive a formal response.

For more detail on our public comment policies, including comments on potential changes to the Prioritized List, visit our Comment on Current Topics page.

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For your comment to be accepted, it must:

Be submitted to HERC.Info@oha.oregon.gov by the listed deadline.
Contain no .zip files.
Include name, profession, professional affiliations, address, phone number and email address¹.
Not exceed 1000 words for coverage guidances/multisector intervention reports and 500 words for scope statements.

¹ Email addresses will not be posted publicly in meeting materials, and names can be withheld by request. Even if withheld, names may become public if disclosure is required as a part of a public records request.

Notice:

Any submissions not adhering to the above criteria will be returned without an extension of the deadline, except that comments which exceed the word limit but otherwise meet criteria will be truncated to the specified length.
Only one submission per person, per topic will be allowed. A separate email must be sent for each topic.
In addition to your comments, please include a separatate citations list with any suggested peer-reviewed articles (these will be considered and evaluated against our inclusion criteria and not counted towards the word limit). To ensure the suggested articles are reviewed, attach copies of the articles with your comments. If we are unable to obtain a cited article, it will not be reviewed.
Comments should not contain links to additional materials. These will not be reviewed.
Comments for scope statements should focus on correctly defining the scope and key questions for the literature search. We will not publicly review or respond to comments recommending coverage or noncoverage for a service during the scope public comment period.