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research coordinator at the Stratton VA
Medical Center. This action is taken
pursuant to the HHS government-wide
nonprocurement debarment and
suspension regulation at 45 CFR part 76.
As such, Mr. Kornak is excluded for life
from participating in any and all Federal
agency transactions, both procurement
and nonprocurement, as set forth in part
76.
Of the 48 criminal charges contained
in his Indictment, Paul Kornak pled
guilty to the three criminal charges
listed above. See United States of
America v. Paul H. Kornak, Criminal
Action No. 03–CR–436 (FJS), U.S.
District Court (N.D.N.Y.) (January 18,
2005). In addition to the 71-month term
of imprisonment imposed, Mr. Kornak
was directed to pay restitution to two
pharmaceutical companies and the VA
in the amount of approximately
$639,000.
As part of his guilty plea, Mr. Kornak
admitted to the following facts:
• In August 2000, Mr. Kornak applied
for employment to the VA, submitting a
false ‘‘Declaration for Federal
Employment’’ form. Mr. Kornak denied
that he had been convicted or on
probation in the preceding 10 years,
whereas in fact, he had been convicted
of mail fraud in 1992 and placed on
probation for 3 years.
• By October of 2000, Mr. Kornak was
responsible for organizing, coordinating,
implementing, and directing all research
elements in the Stratton VA Medical
Center oncology research program.
Specifically, Mr. Kornak was the site
coordinator at the Stratton VA Medical
Center for the ‘‘Iron (Fe) and
Atherosclerosis Study’’ (FeAST), cancer
studies known as Tax 325 and Tax 327,
and a bladder cancer study. The FeAST
study was a clinical trial that tested a
novel procedure for controlling
atherosclerosis, also known as
hardening of the arteries, by reducing
the iron in the body through blood
drawing. The Tax 325 cancer treatment
study involved the administration of
pharmaceutical products to patients
with metastatic or locally recurrent
gastric cancer previously untreated with
chemotherapy for advanced disease.
The Tax 327 study involved the
administration of pharmaceutical
products to patients with metastatic
hormone refractory prostate cancer. The
purpose of the bladder cancer study,
which was co-sponsored by the National
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of
Health, was to compare the use of
difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) to the
use of a placebo in patients with low
grade superficial bladder cancer
according to time to first recurrence of
the tumor and toxicities.
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• From May 14, 1999, to July 10,
2002, in connection with the above
protocols, Mr. Kornak participated in a
scheme to defraud the sponsors of the
clinical studies in that ‘‘he would and
repeatedly did submit false
documentation regarding patients and
study subjects and enroll and cause to
be enrolled persons as study subjects
who did not qualify under the particular
study protocol.’’
• Mr. Kornak caused the death of a
study subject when he ‘‘failed to
perceive a substantial and unjustifiable
risk that death would occur when he
knowingly and willfully made and used
* * * documents falsely stating and
representing the results of [the study
subject’s] blood chemistry analysis
* * *, which false documents
purported that [the study subject] met
the inclusion and exclusion criteria for
participation in Tax 325 when the
actual results did not meet the inclusion
and exclusion criteria and showed
impaired kidney and liver function, and
[the study subject] thus was
administered the chemotherapeutic
drugs docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5–FU in
connection with Tax 325 on or about
May 31, 2001, and died as a result
thereof on or about June 11, 2001.’’
Based on the criminal conviction and
the facts admitted to above, HHS and
VA believe that a debarment period
longer than the standard length of
debarment is warranted in this case. Mr.
Kornak admitted to a dishonest
handling of the research records and
demonstrated a complete disregard for
the well-being of vulnerable human
subjects under his care. In pleading
guilty to criminally negligent homicide,
Mr. Kornak admitted that a reasonable
person would have perceived a
substantial and unjustifiable risk of
death if an ineligible subject were
enrolled in the cancer study in question
and that his failure to perceive such a
risk in enrolling the ineligible subject
constituted a gross deviation from the
standard of care.
Moreover, a longer debarment period
is warranted in this case because of an
established pattern of misconduct and
criminal behavior on the part of Mr.
Kornak. As stated above, Mr. Kornak has
a prior conviction of mail fraud. In
addition, the Office of Personnel
Management excluded Mr. Kornak from
all Federal nonprocurement transactions
for an indefinite period, effective July
22, 1993. Nonetheless, beginning in
1999, Mr. Kornak actively participated
in federally sponsored research
protocols in violation of the imposed
exclusion.
A lifetime debarment of Mr. Kornak is
necessary to protect the public interest
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overall. Given the scope of his criminal
conviction, his longstanding pattern of
criminal behavior, and his total
disregard for the safety and well-being
of human subjects, Mr. Kornak’s
responsibility to engage in transactions
with the Federal Government cannot be
assured at any time in the future.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Director, Division of Investigative
Oversight,
Office of Research Integrity,
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750,
Rockville, MD 20852.
(240) 453–8800,
or
Peter Poon,
Health Science Specialist,
Office of Research Oversight,
Veteran’s Health Administration, VA,
811 Vermont Ave., NW. (10R), Suite
574,
Washington, DC 20420.
(202) 565–8107.
Chris B. Pascal,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
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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, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) allow the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘Use of
IT and Health IT Among Health Centers
funded under Section 330 of the Public
Health Service Act’’. 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 April 25, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Cynthia D. McMichael,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540
Gaither Road, Suite 5022, Rockville, MD
20850. Copies of the proposed
collection plan, data collection
instrument, and specific details on the
estimated burden can be obtained from
AHRQ’s Reports Clearance Officer.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cynthia D. McMichael, AHRQ, Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1651.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
‘‘Use of IT and Health IT Among Health
Centers funded under Section 330 of the
Public Health Service Act.’’
This project is being conducted under
contact 290–04–0016 between the
Agency for Healthcare Quality and
Research and the National Opinion
Research Center (NORC) at the
University of Chicago, the prime
contractor for AHRQ’s National
Resource Center for Health Information
Technology. AHRQ, in close
collaboration with the Health Resources
and Services Administration’s (HRSA)
Bureau of Primary Health care (BPHC),
is requesting that NORC conduct an
assessment of the use of information
technology (IT) at ambulatory health
centers funded under Section 330 of the
Public Health Services Act. Specifically,
the project will assess IT applications
which assist in improving the quality,
safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of
health care (health IT) at HRSA-funded
ambulatory health centers.
For the purposes of this project,
AHRQ and HRSA have drafted an IntraAgency Agreement (AHRQ IAA #05–
404R–05) which establishes roles and
responsibilities for both agencies.
HRSA, AHRQ and NORC will work
collaboratively to develop the analytic
questions, survey tool, sampling strategy
and analysis plan. AHRQ and HRSA
will review data runs as well as
descriptive and comparative analysis.
NORC will field the survey, conduct
descriptive and comparative analysis,
and report findings to both AHRQ and
HRSA.
The HRSA-funded health centers from
a key part of the nation’s health care
‘‘safety net,’’ delivering primary car
medical services to vulnerable
populations. Special administrative
requirements, including tracking and
reporting on their patient populations,
maintaining patient-specific data and
supporting disease registries for
vulnerable populations, make health
centers a prime target for implementing
health IT applications. As such, health
centers represent and early laboratory
for health IT adoption, use, and impact
among ambulatory health care
providers.
The study will inquire about the gains
and challenges experienced at selected
health centers in the implementation of
IT programs. Information will be
collected with regard to the following
topics and issues: current state of Health
Information Technology (HIT) use, goals
and approach to HIT, readiness for HIT
adoption and expansion, management of
HIT issues and adherence to
requirements, and overall experience
with HIT implementation of
sustainability, including successes
experienced and barriers encountered.
Findings from the proposed collection
will assist policy makers at AHRQ,
HRSA and elsewhere as they seek to
build on this early IT adoption among
health centers and promote policy
efforts to encourage the implementation
of IT in ambulatory health care settings
to achieve efficiency and quality of care
objectives.
Date Confidentiality
To obtain the necessary information,
surveys will be conducted with staff at
selected HRSA-funded health centers.
The study will primarily involve the use
of web-based interviews, although some
telephone interviews will be conducted
when selected health centers do not
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respond online. All appropriate
measures will be taken to protect the
confidentiality of individual
respondents and their institution. Web
surveys are administered using an
encrypted SSL connection using
secured web data collection servers.
Access to response data will be limited
on a strictly ‘‘need to access’’ basis and
any person accessing the data will have
signed a corporate confidentially pledge
which clearly enumerates their
responsibilities in this regard including
AHRQ’s statutory confidentiality
requirements and specific consequences
of improper disclosures or allowing
breaches in confidentiality.
Methods of Collection
The data will be collected from a
systematic random sample of 450 of the
approximately 920 total HRSA Section
330-funded Health Centers. Centers will
be chosen stratified by urbanicity
(urban, rural and suburban) and
geographical area. The expected
response rate of 75 percent will result in
data from approximately 338 centers.
One survey will be completed by each
organization. Multiple individuals from
each Health Center may be respondents,
including senior management and
administrative personnel, information
technology staff, and clinicians.
Based on experience with surveys of
similar length, the estimate is that the
questionnaire will take one hour to
complete. The primary method of data
collection will be web-based selfadministered questionnaire. All sample
centers will receive an advance e-mail
followed a week later by an e-mail
containing instructions for accessing the
Web survey. We will use a multiple
mode approach to follow-up with
centers that do not complete the survey
within 4 weeks of the initial e-mailing.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN
Data collection effort
Number of
respondents
Estimated time
per
respondent
(minutes)
Estimated total
burden to
respondents
(hours)
Average
hourly wage
rate
Estimated
annual cost to
health center
respondent
Online and Telephone Surveys * .........................................
338
60
338
$42.38
$14,324.44
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* Using the mean of the average wages for managers in medicine, physicians and computer systems analyst/scientist as reported in the National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, 2004, (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September
2004), we estimate the total hourly cost to respondents to be $42.38 or $14,324.44 across all 338 health center respondents.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above cited
legislation, comments on AHRQ’s
information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of AHRQ,
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including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and cost) of the proposed
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
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collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval of the proposed information
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collection. All comments will become a
matter of public record.
Dated: February 16, 2006.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Meetings on Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings,
including telephone call-in.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We are considering how to
implement the Patient Safety and
Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Act),
including such questions as how the Act
might be applied to various
organizational configurations and how
best to ensure that the statute’s
fundamental confidentiality objectives
are achieved. To help us better
understand the thinking and plans of
providers that are interested in seeking
out patient safety organization (PSO)
services, and of entities that anticipate
establishing such an organization, this
notice invites the public to provide
information that may assist the Agency,
either in person or by telephone call-in,
at three related public meetings.
DATES: The three public meetings will
be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2006;
Monday, March 13, 2006; and Thursday,
March 16, 2006. Each meeting will be
held from 12:30 p.m. EST until finished
(no later than 3:30 p.m. EST).
ADDRESSES: The meetings on March 8
and 13 will be held at AHRQ, John M.
Eisenberg Building, 540 Gaither Road,
Rockville, MD 20850. The meeting on
March 16 will be held at Hilton
Washington Embassy Row, 2015
Massachusetts Ave. NW., Washington,
DC 20036.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eileen Hogan, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road,
Rockville, MD 20850; Telephone: 301–
427–1307; E-mail:
Eileen.Hogan@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Act is
intended to help health care providers
improve patient safety, reduce the
incidence of events that adversely effect
patient safety, and otherwise improve
the quality of health care delivery. More
specifically, the Act, by establishing a
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Federal privilege and mandating
confidentiality protection, encourages
health care providers to contract with
PSOs to collect and analyze data on
patient safety events (including ‘‘near
misses,’’ ‘‘close calls,’’ and ‘‘no-harm’’
events as well as other types of patient
safety events), to develop and
disseminate information to improve
patient safety, and to provide feedback
and assistance to reduce patient risk.
The decision to contract with a PSO is
voluntary.
Registration and Other Information
About the Meetings
We request that interested persons
register with the Cygnus Corporation on
the Internet at https://www.cygnusc.com/
to participate in one or more meetings
either in person or by telephone. The
contact at Cygnus Corporation is Megan
Griggs who can be reached by telephone
at (301) 231–7537, ext. 260 and by email at griggsm@cygnus.com. Interested
persons should register at least the day
before a meeting in which they wish to
participate. Non-registered individuals
will be able to attend a meeting in
person if space is available. However,
we will not be able to provide a
telephone hook-up for those that do not
register at least the day before the
meeting.
If sign language interpretation or other
reasonable accommodation for a
disability is needed, please contact Mr.
Donald L. Inniss, Director, Office of
Equal Employment Opportunity
Program Support Center, on (301) 443–
1144.
Each public meeting is scheduled for
a three-hour period, but will end sooner
if participants have finished providing
input before the time period expires. We
are asking for input concerning specific
topics as follows:
March 8, 2006: Provider—PSO
relationships, contracts, and
disclosures. March 13, 2006: Operation
of a component PSO (a PSO that is part
of another organization). March 16,
2006: Security and Confidentiality
issues.
We request that input regarding the
specified topics be provided at the
meeting scheduled for that topic. After
those who wish to provide input on the
specific topics have finished,
participants will be welcome to provide
input on other issues regarding the
implementation of the Act. The format
for the meetings is intended to allow
participants not only to provide input,
but also to respond to the input
provided by others. We especially
request input from entities interested in
becoming or creating PSOs and from
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providers interested in contracting with
PSOs.
To help interested individuals
prepare for the meetings, we invite
review of the Act. The full text is set
forth on the Internet at: https://
www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/ (search for
‘‘Public Law 109—41.’’)
Also, we will establish an e-mail
notification list to provide interested
parties with automatic notification of
relevant information posted on the
AHRQ Web site (https://www.ahrq.gov)
concerning the PSO program. To be
added to the e-mail notification list,
send your e-mail address to
Eileen.Hogan@ahrq.hhs.gov and use the
words ‘‘Add me to the list’’ in the
subject line.
These meetings will be primarily
listening sessions for the Agency and
potentially an opportunity for dialogue
among participants. We believe that the
input received at the public meetings
will be most helpful in providing the
Agency with background information,
fostering fact finding, and broadening
awareness of issues raised by the
legislation. We generally will not
respond to the presentations during the
meetings and will not regard them as
formal comments that must be
addressed in later rulemaking
documents.
Dated: February 17, 2006.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–06–0576]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance
Officer at (404) 639–5960 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) allow the proposed information collection
project: ``Use of IT and Health IT Among Health Centers funded under
Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act''. 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 April 25, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Cynthia D.
McMichael, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Suite
5022, Rockville, MD 20850. Copies of the proposed collection plan, data
collection instrument, and specific details on the estimated burden can
be obtained from AHRQ's Reports Clearance Officer.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia D. McMichael, AHRQ, Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1651.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
``Use of IT and Health IT Among Health Centers funded under Section 330
of the Public Health Service Act.''
This project is being conducted under contact 290-04-0016 between
the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research and the National Opinion
Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, the prime
contractor for AHRQ's National Resource Center for Health Information
Technology. AHRQ, in close collaboration with the Health Resources and
Services Administration's (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Health care (BPHC),
is requesting that NORC conduct an assessment of the use of information
technology (IT) at ambulatory health centers funded under Section 330
of the Public Health Services Act. Specifically, the project will
assess IT applications which assist in improving the quality, safety,
efficiency, and effectiveness of health care (health IT) at HRSA-funded
ambulatory health centers.
For the purposes of this project, AHRQ and HRSA have drafted an
Intra-Agency Agreement (AHRQ IAA 05-404R-05) which establishes
roles and responsibilities for both agencies. HRSA, AHRQ and NORC will
work collaboratively to develop the analytic questions, survey tool,
sampling strategy and analysis plan. AHRQ and HRSA will review data
runs as well as descriptive and comparative analysis. NORC will field
the survey, conduct descriptive and comparative analysis, and report
findings to both AHRQ and HRSA.
The HRSA-funded health centers from a key part of the nation's
health care ``safety net,'' delivering primary car medical services to
vulnerable populations. Special administrative requirements, including
tracking and reporting on their patient populations, maintaining
patient-specific data and supporting disease registries for vulnerable
populations, make health centers a prime target for implementing health
IT applications. As such, health centers represent and early laboratory
for health IT adoption, use, and impact among ambulatory health care
providers.
The study will inquire about the gains and challenges experienced
at selected health centers in the implementation of IT programs.
Information will be collected with regard to the following topics and
issues: current state of Health Information Technology (HIT) use, goals
and approach to HIT, readiness for HIT adoption and expansion,
management of HIT issues and adherence to requirements, and overall
experience with HIT implementation of sustainability, including
successes experienced and barriers encountered.
Findings from the proposed collection will assist policy makers at
AHRQ, HRSA and elsewhere as they seek to build on this early IT
adoption among health centers and promote policy efforts to encourage
the implementation of IT in ambulatory health care settings to achieve
efficiency and quality of care objectives.
Date Confidentiality
To obtain the necessary information, surveys will be conducted with
staff at selected HRSA-funded health centers. The study will primarily
involve the use of web-based interviews, although some telephone
interviews will be conducted when selected health centers do not
respond online. All appropriate measures will be taken to protect the
confidentiality of individual respondents and their institution. Web
surveys are administered using an encrypted SSL connection using
secured web data collection servers. Access to response data will be
limited on a strictly ``need to access'' basis and any person accessing
the data will have signed a corporate confidentially pledge which
clearly enumerates their responsibilities in this regard including
AHRQ's statutory confidentiality requirements and specific consequences
of improper disclosures or allowing breaches in confidentiality.
Methods of Collection
The data will be collected from a systematic random sample of 450
of the approximately 920 total HRSA Section 330-funded Health Centers.
Centers will be chosen stratified by urbanicity (urban, rural and
suburban) and geographical area. The expected response rate of 75
percent will result in data from approximately 338 centers.
One survey will be completed by each organization. Multiple
individuals from each Health Center may be respondents, including
senior management and administrative personnel, information technology
staff, and clinicians.
Based on experience with surveys of similar length, the estimate is
that the questionnaire will take one hour to complete. The primary
method of data collection will be web-based self-administered
questionnaire. All sample centers will receive an advance e-mail
followed a week later by an e-mail containing instructions for
accessing the Web survey. We will use a multiple mode approach to
follow-up with centers that do not complete the survey within 4 weeks
of the initial e-mailing.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
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Estimated total Estimated
Number of Estimated time burden to Average hourly annual cost to
Data collection effort respondents per respondent respondents wage rate health center
(minutes) (hours) respondent
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Online and Telephone Surveys *..................................... 338 60 338 $42.38 $14,324.44
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* Using the mean of the average wages for managers in medicine, physicians and computer systems analyst/scientist as reported in the National
Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, 2004, (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2004), we
estimate the total hourly cost to respondents to be $42.38 or $14,324.44 across all 338 health center respondents.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above cited legislation, comments on AHRQ's
information collection are requested with regard to any of the
following: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of functions of AHRQ, including
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy
of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours and cost) of the proposed
collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information upon the respondents,
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and included in the request for OMB approval of the proposed
information
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collection. All comments will become a matter of public record.
Dated: February 16, 2006.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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