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Appendix: Review of the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research: Study Mandate
Pages 25-25

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... ~research efforts, the scope :of work for the. DES, and the design and content of the survey, as proposed by the survey contractor, as well as SSA's plans to integrate the decision method and DES research effort, identifying statistical design, methodological and content concerns, and other outstanding issues, Examine the results of completed research: including research into existing functional assessment instruments and subsequently identified research for SSA's redesign efforts, and provide advice for adopting Or developing fimctional assessment instruments or protocols for the redesigned disability process and the DES in particular; and : Assess the results and findings of the research :undertaken by SSA, comment on future research proposals, and offer advice on the analysis of the consequences of alternative disability determination processes.
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