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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 223 / Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / Notices
Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–15–0234]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencyies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NAMCS), (OMB No. 0920–0234
exp. 12/31/2014)—Revision—National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as
amended, authorizes that the Secretary
of Health and Human Services, acting
through NCHS, shall collect statistics on
the utilization of health care provided
by non-federal office-based physicians
in the United States. On December 13,
2011, the OMB approved data collection
for three years from 2012 to 2014. This
revision is to request approval to
continue NAMCS data collection
activities for three years from 2015–
2017, make minor modifications to
survey content, and to collect additional
questions on alcohol screening practices
and on provider cultural and linguistic
competence. This notice also covers
potential increases in sample size that
might result due to other future budget
allocations.
The National Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey (NAMCS) has been
conducted intermittently from 1973
through 1985, and annually since 1989.
The purpose of NAMCS, a voluntary
survey, is to meet the needs and
demands for statistical information
about the provision of ambulatory
medical care services in the United
States. Ambulatory services are
rendered in a wide variety of settings,
including physicians’ offices and
hospital outpatient and emergency
departments.
The NAMCS target universe consists
of all office visits made by ambulatory
patients to non-Federal office-based
physicians (excluding those in the
specialties of anesthesiology, radiology,
and pathology) who are engaged in
direct patient care. In 2006, physicians
and mid-level providers (i.e., nurse
practitioners, physician assistants, and
nurse midwives) practicing in
community health centers (CHCs) were
added to the NAMCS sample, and these
data will continue to be collected.
To complement NAMCS data, NCHS
initiated the National Hospital
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
(NHAMCS, OMB No. 0920–0278) in
1992 to provide data concerning patient
visits to hospital outpatient and
emergency departments. NAMCS and
NHAMCS are the principal sources of
data on ambulatory care provided in the
United States.
The annualized estimated burden of
time is 25,311 hours. There is no cost
to the respondents other than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Office-based physicians (Core plus Expansion Sample).
Physician Induction Interview (NAMCS–1) ....
Patient Record form (NAMCS–30) (Physician
abstracts on Web).
Pulling, re-filing medical record forms (FR
abstracts).
Induction Interview—service delivery site
(NAMCS–201).
Induction Interview—Providers ......................
Patient Record form (NAMCS–30) (Provider
abstracts).
Pulling, re-filing medical record forms (FR
abstracts).
Pulling, re-filing medical record forms (FR
abstracts).
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Community Health Centers (Core plus Expansion Sample).
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
5,656
1,131
1
30
45/60
14/60
4,525
30
1/60
1,780
1
20/60
4,005
801
1
30
45/60
14/60
3,204
30
1/60
500
10
1/60
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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 223 / Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / Notices
Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
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comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Surveillance of Health-Related
Workplace Absenteeism—[New]—
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
There is currently a high global
human health risk from emerging novel
influenza, coronavirus and similar
evolving pathogens, which is prompting
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) to enhance situational
awareness capacity for emergency
preparedness and response.
During the 2009 influenza A (H1N1)
virus pandemic, NIOSH/CDC did a pilot
study to test the feasibility of using
national surveillance of workplace
absenteeism to assess the pandemic’s
impact on the workplace to plan for
preparedness and continuity of
operations and to contribute to health
awareness during the emergency
response. As part of this emergency
effort, CDC contracted with the
American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (ACOEM),
which has access to a large network of
affiliated medical directors and
corporate health units that routinely
compile absenteeism data, to conduct
enhanced passive surveillance of
absenteeism using weekly data from a
convenience sample of sentinel
worksites.
Due the emergency situation at that
time, OMB approval was erroneously
not requested for the data collection
activities associated with the pilot
study. The current request seeks to
build off of the data collected from the
pilot and accounts for the burden
involving all of the participants.
From September 28, 2009, through
March 31, 2010, 79 sentinel worksites
representing 16 different employers
participated in the pilot study. Each
week, ACOEM collected reports of
aggregated absenteeism data from the
medical directors of the participating
companies using an emailed,
standardized form. ACOEM replaced
company names with coded unique
identifiers, and sent the aggregated data
to CDC/NIOSH for analysis.
The major strengths of the sentinel
worksite approach to absenteeism
surveillance were the use of existing,
routinely collected data and timeliness.
The use of existing, routinely collected
data made the burden on participating
companies negligible. Data were
routinely compiled and thus could be
collected and analyzed in near real time,
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making this approach useful, in
principle, for providing current
situational awareness and actionable
intelligence that could be used to
inform, prioritize, and evaluate
intervention efforts during the
pandemic. On the other hand, there
were several limitations to the sentinel
worksite surveillance done in 2009–
2010, and the activity was not
maintained after the H1N1 pandemic
ended.
At present, two new emerging
infectious diseases, novel H7N9
influenza virus and a coronavirus
circulating in the Middle East, have
demonstrated the need to build
additional capacity for national
surveillance for health-related
workplace absenteeism so that it can be
used to monitor the impact of these or
any other disease that might reach
pandemic potential and spread to the
U.S.
NIOSH/CDC requests permission to
collect company absenteeism data, to be
able to assess the impact of disease on
a company and to identify trends in the
spread of influenza or other novel
disease states. This will provide an
additional monitoring system to CDC.
The proposed project builds on the
2009/10 initiative and modifies the
reporting format to collect information
on a daily versus weekly basis. The
companies in the program will be those
that routinely collect absenteeism data
thus the burden will be minimal. We
will be asking companies to record their
daily absenteeism numbers into an excel
file which can be emailed to ACOEM on
a weekly or monthly basis. The excel
file will be pre-populated with company
name, site and dates to ease the
reporting burden on companies.
ACOEM will transmit de-identified
information on a weekly or monthly
basis to NIOSH/CDC who will in turn
conduct analysis on an aggregate basis.
Data will be compiled by state and HHS
region, as well as nationally to allow for
trend analysis.
The initial 16 respondents in the
2009/10 study will be asked to
participate and an additional 12
companies have indicated an interest in
participating in the data collection
activity. The employee population
among these 28 companies is
approximately 293,000.
The annualized estimated burden of
time is 607 hours for the 28 respondents
in the study. Respondents will complete
the form daily; no more than 5 minutes
per day/per respondent which translates
to 25 minutes per week/per respondent
or 700 minutes per week for all
respondents. This results in an
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-15-0234]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted
the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for the proposed
information collection is published to obtain comments from the public
and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are
encouraged. Your comments should address any of the following: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencyies estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; (d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses; and
(e) Assess information collection costs.
To request additional information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice should be
directed to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), (OMB No. 0920-0234
exp. 12/31/2014)--Revision--National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, acting through NCHS, shall collect statistics on the
utilization of health care provided by non-federal office-based
physicians in the United States. On December 13, 2011, the OMB approved
data collection for three years from 2012 to 2014. This revision is to
request approval to continue NAMCS data collection activities for three
years from 2015-2017, make minor modifications to survey content, and
to collect additional questions on alcohol screening practices and on
provider cultural and linguistic competence. This notice also covers
potential increases in sample size that might result due to other
future budget allocations.
The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) has been
conducted intermittently from 1973 through 1985, and annually since
1989. The purpose of NAMCS, a voluntary survey, is to meet the needs
and demands for statistical information about the provision of
ambulatory medical care services in the United States. Ambulatory
services are rendered in a wide variety of settings, including
physicians' offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments.
The NAMCS target universe consists of all office visits made by
ambulatory patients to non-Federal office-based physicians (excluding
those in the specialties of anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology)
who are engaged in direct patient care. In 2006, physicians and mid-
level providers (i.e., nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and
nurse midwives) practicing in community health centers (CHCs) were
added to the NAMCS sample, and these data will continue to be
collected.
To complement NAMCS data, NCHS initiated the National Hospital
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS, OMB No. 0920-0278) in 1992 to
provide data concerning patient visits to hospital outpatient and
emergency departments. NAMCS and NHAMCS are the principal sources of
data on ambulatory care provided in the United States.
The annualized estimated burden of time is 25,311 hours. There is
no cost to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Office-based physicians (Core plus Physician Induction 5,656 1 45/60
Expansion Sample). Interview (NAMCS-1). 1,131 30 14/60
Patient Record form
(NAMCS-30) (Physician
abstracts on Web).
Pulling, re-filing 4,525 30 1/60
medical record forms
(FR abstracts).
Community Health Centers (Core plus Induction Interview-- 1,780 1 20/60
Expansion Sample). service delivery site
(NAMCS-201).
Induction Interview-- 4,005 1 45/60
Providers.
Patient Record form 801 30 14/60
(NAMCS-30) (Provider
abstracts).
Pulling, re-filing 3,204 30 1/60
medical record forms
(FR abstracts).
Re-abstraction study.................. Pulling, re-filing 500 10 1/60
medical record forms
(FR abstracts).
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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