"Audit of the National Institutes of Health's Use of Heart Surgery Contracts
with Private Hospitals," (A-15-94-00022)
February 5, 1996
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This final audit report addresses the National Institutes of Health's (NIH)
use of contracts to obtain routine cardiac surgery. The objective of our audit
was to determine how the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Heart
Institute) used surgery contracts in support of its research mission.