Results Act: Biomedical Research in HHS' Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Plan

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) performance plan to address medical research, focusing on whether the performance plan: (1) provided objective and measurable performance goals by which the outcomes of medical research programs could be assessed; (2) described strategies for achieving the specified research goals; (3) identified factors that could affect the ability to achieve the research goals and provided an indication of how these factors would be addressed; and (4) indicated how different research agencies within HHS would coordinate their efforts to achieve the research goals.