Depository Library Council to the Public Printer; Notice of Meeting, 54402 [E8-21608]

Download as PDF 54402 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 183 / Friday, September 19, 2008 / Notices increasing fuel efficiency for the Federal motor vehicle fleets. B. Procedures Bulletins regarding motor vehicle management are located on the Internet at www.gsa.gov/fmrbulletin as Federal Management Regulation (FMR) bulletins. Dated: August 29, 2008. Becky Rhodes, Deputy Associate Administrator. [FR Doc. E8–21921 Filed 9–18–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6820–14–S GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Depository Library Council to the Public Printer; Notice of Meeting The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer (DLC) will meet on Monday, October 20, 2008, through Wednesday, October 22, 2008, at Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, located at Arlington, Virginia. The sessions will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Wednesday. The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the Federal Depository Library Program. All sessions are open to the public. The sleeping rooms available at the Doubletree Hotel Crystal City will be at the Government rate of $233.00 (plus applicable state and local taxes, currently 10.25%) a night for a single or double. The Doubletree Hotel Crystal City is in compliance with the requirements of Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act and meets all Fire Safety Act regulations. Robert C. Tapella, Public Printer of the United States. [FR Doc. E8–21608 Filed 9–18–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 1520–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services. ACTION: Notice. jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:25 Sep 18, 2008 Jkt 214001 Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) allow the proposed information collection project: ‘‘Establishing Benchmarks for the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety.’’ In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection. DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by November 18, 2008. ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed Project ‘‘Establishing Benchmarks for the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety’’. The ambulatory Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety (SOPS), an adapted version of AHRQ’s Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC), was developed in 2005 to measure specific components of patient safety culture in the ambulatory setting. A pilot study (OMB #0935–0131) assessed and refined the psychometric properties of specific survey items, and a final version of SOPS is now ready for public dissemination. However, in order for the survey to be most useful to ambulatory medical offices in identifying areas of relative strength and weakness in patient safety culture, reliable benchmarks to which a practice’s responses can be compared need to be established. AHRQ has determined, through discussions with potential end-users of SOPS, including leaders of physician and other provider groups, that an ambulatory practice is unlikely to have confidence in SOPS benchmarks unless the benchmarking data are based on responses derived from offices with similar characteristics. Office characteristics thought to have a potential effect on SOPS responses include practice size, location, provider specialty, and use of electronic information technology. A separate survey to collect information about these practice characteristics has been PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 developed and was tested and refined as part of the pilot study. In order to establish SOPS benchmarks that can be tailored with respect to specific practice-related characteristics, survey responses from a large sample of practices stratified by these characteristics are required. AHRQ therefore intends to recruit and administer SOPS to ambulatory medical offices that have been selected on the basis of practice characteristics. In addition, AHRQ intends to collect from these practices evaluative information about administrative barriers and facilitators to survey participation as well as a description of how the office used (or plans to use) the survey results to enhance patient safety culture. These data will inform future efforts by AHRQ to maximize the use of SOPS and the utility/value of survey results to ambulatory practices across the country. This project is being conducted pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory mandates to (1) promote health care quality improvement by conducting and supporting research that develops and presents scientific evidence regarding all aspects of health care, including methods for measuring quality and strategies for improving quality (42 U.S.C. 299(b)(1)(F)) and (2) conduct and support research on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to quality measurement and improvement (42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(2)). Methods of Collection A purposive sample of 350 outpatient medical offices will be identified and recruited. The goal is for the sample to be proportionately distributed with regard to six practice characteristics: geographical location of offices; office size (number of physicians and employed staff); provider specialty; type of practice ownership; extent to which electronic information tools are used; and demographics of patients being served. All physicians and employed staff in the practices will be asked to complete the SOPS. Additionally, one office manager for the practice will be asked to complete the Office Characteristics Survey. Since higher response rates have been demonstrated when paperbased (compared to electronic) surveys are administered to busy ambulatory clinicians, SOPS will be administered in paper form. Standard non-response follow-up techniques such as reminder postcards and distribution of a second survey will be used. Additionally, all respondents will subsequently be asked to complete a web-based evaluation assessing barriers and facilitators to survey completion, E:\FR\FM\19SEN1.SGM 19SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 183 (Friday, September 19, 2008)]
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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE


Depository Library Council to the Public Printer; Notice of 
Meeting

    The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer (DLC) will 
meet on Monday, October 20, 2008, through Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 
at Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, located at Arlington, Virginia. The 
sessions will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through 
Wednesday. The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Crystal 
City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia. The purpose of this 
meeting is to discuss the Federal Depository Library Program. All 
sessions are open to the public. The sleeping rooms available at the 
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City will be at the Government rate of $233.00 
(plus applicable state and local taxes, currently 10.25%) a night for a 
single or double. The Doubletree Hotel Crystal City is in compliance 
with the requirements of Title III of the Americans With Disabilities 
Act and meets all Fire Safety Act regulations.

Robert C. Tapella,
Public Printer of the United States.
[FR Doc. E8-21608 Filed 9-18-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 1520-01-P
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