; (B) the outcomes, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care practices, including preventive measures and long-term care; (C) existing and innovative technologies; (D) the costs and utilization of, and access to health care; (E) the ways in which health care services are organized, delivered, and financed and the interaction and impact of these factors on the quality of patient care; (F) methods for measuring quality and strategies for improving quality; and (G) ways in which patients, consumers, purchasers, and practitioners acquire new information about best practices and health benefits, the determinants and impact of their use of this information; (2) the synthesis and dissemination of available scientific evidence for use by patients, consumers, practitioners, providers, purchasers, policy makers, and educators; and (3) initiatives to advance private and public efforts to improve health care quality. 464aa–3. Requirements with respect to rural and inner-city areas and priority populations (a) Research, evaluations, and demonstration projects In carrying out this subpart, the Director of the Institute shall conduct and support research and evaluations, and support demonstration projects, with respect to— (1) the delivery of health care in inner-city areas, and in rural areas (including frontier areas); and (2) health care for priority populations, which shall include— (A) low-income groups; (B) minority groups; (C) women; (D) children; (E) the elderly