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rapid testing performance evaluation
program (HIV Rapid Testing MPEP).
This program offers external
performance evaluation (PE) for rapid
tests such as the OraQuick Rapid
HIV–1 Antibody Test, approved as a
waived test by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, and for other licensed
tests such as the MedMira Reveal.
Participation in PE programs is expected
to lead to improved HIV testing
performance because participants have
the opportunity to identify areas for
improvement in testing practices.
Participants include facilities and
testing sites that perform HIV Rapid
Testing. This program helps to ensure
accurate testing as a basis for
development of HIV prevention and
intervention strategies.
This external quality assessment
program is made available at no cost (for
receipt of sample panels) to sites
performing rapid testing for HIV
antibodies. This program offers
laboratories/testing sites an opportunity
for:
(1) Assuring that the laboratories/
testing sites are providing accurate tests
through external quality assessment,
(2) Improving testing quality through
self-evaluation in a nonregulatory
environment,
(3) Testing well characterized samples
from a source outside the test kit
manufacturer,
(4) Discovering potential testing
problems so that laboratories/testing
sites can adjust procedures to eliminate
them,
(5) Comparing individual laboratory/
testing site results to others at a national
and international level, and
(6) Consulting with CDC staff to
discuss testing issues.
Participants in the MPEP HIV Rapid
Testing program are required to
complete a laboratory practices
questionnaire survey annually. In
addition, participants are required to
submit results twice/year after testing
mailed performance evaluation samples.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time. The estimated
annualized burden is 625.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
HIV Rapid Testing Laboratory Practices Questionnaire .............................................................
HIV Rapid Testing Form EZ ........................................................................................................
Dated: November 9, 2006.
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Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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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
e-mail 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. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Questionnaire Design Research
Laboratory (QDRL) 2007–2009, (OMB
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No. 0920–0222)—Extension—National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Questionnaire Design Research
Laboratory (QDRL) conducts
questionnaire pre-testing and evaluation
activities for CDC surveys (such as the
NCHS National Health Interview
Survey, OMB No. 0920–0214) and other
federally sponsored surveys. The QDRL
conducts cognitive interviews, focus
groups, mini field-pretests, and
experimental research in laboratory and
field settings, both for applied
questionnaire evaluation and more basic
research on response errors in surveys.
In a cognitive interview, a
questionnaire design specialist
interviews a volunteer participant.
QDRL participants are usually recruited
by expressing their personal willingness
to participate. They read or hear about
the study through media
advertisements, flyers, and word-ofmouth, and either call the laboratory
answering machine number or contact a
person coordinating the recruitment.
Thus, participation is strictly voluntary
and participants are not chosen
randomly.
The most common questionnaire
evaluation method is the cognitive
interview. The interviewer administers
the draft survey questions as written,
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but also probes the participant in depth
about interpretations of questions, recall
processes used to answer them, and
adequacy of response categories to
express answers, while noting points of
confusion and errors in responding.
Interviews are generally conducted in
small rounds of 10–15 interviews;
ideally, the questionnaire is re-worked
between rounds and revisions are tested
interactively until interviews yield
relatively few new insights. When
possible, cognitive interviews are
conducted in the survey’s intended
mode of administration. For example,
when testing telephone survey
questionnaires, participants often
respond to the questions via a telephone
in a laboratory room. Under this
condition, the participant answers
without face-to-face interaction. QDRL
staff watch for response difficulties from
an observation room, and then conduct
a face-to-face debriefing with in-depth
probes. Cognitive interviewing provides
useful data on questionnaire
performance at minimal cost and
respondent burden. Similar
methodology has been adopted by other
Federal agencies, as well as by academic
and commercial survey organizations.
NCHS is requesting 3 years of OMB
Clearance for the project. There are no
costs to respondents other than their
time. The total estimated annualized
burden hours are 600.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
QDRL Interviews:
(1) NCHS Surveys ..............................................................................................................
(2) Other questionnaire testing ...........................................................................................
(3) Research on the effects of alternative questionnaire design .......................................
(4) General Methodological Research ...............................................................................
Focus Groups (5 groups of 10) .................................................................................................
Dated: November 9, 2006.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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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. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting
System—extension—National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public
health problem. In the United States,
homicide and suicide are the second
and third leading causes of death,
respectively, in the 1–34 year old age
group. Unfortunately, public health
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agencies do not know much more about
the problem than the numbers and the
sex, race, and age of the victims, all
information obtainable from the
standard death certificate. Death
certificates, however, carry no
information about key facts necessary
for prevention such as the relationship
of the victim and suspect and the
circumstances of the deaths, thereby
making it impossible to discern
anything but the gross contours of the
problem. Furthermore, death certificates
are typically available 20 months after
the completion of a single calendar year.
Official publications of national violent
death rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data
that is less than two years old. Public
health interventions aimed at a moving
target last seen two years ago may well
miss the mark.
Local and Federal criminal justice
agencies such as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more
information about homicides, but they
do not routinely collect standardized
data about suicides, which are in fact
much more common than homicides.
The FBI’s Supplemental Homicide
Report system (SHRs) does collect basic
information about the victim-suspect
relationship and circumstances, like
death certificates, it does not link
violent deaths that are part of one
incident such as homicide-suicides. It
also is a voluntary system in which
some 10–20 percent of police
departments nationwide do not
participate. The FBI’s National Incident
Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
addresses some of these deficiencies,
but it covers less of the country than
SHRs, still includes only homicides,
and collects only police information.
Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics
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120
500
60
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Reports do not use data that is less than
two years old.
CDC therefore proposes to continue a
state-based surveillance system for
violent deaths that will provide more
detailed and timely information. It taps
into the case records held by medical
examiners/coroners, police, and crime
labs. Data is collected centrally by each
State in the system, stripped of
identifiers, and then sent to the CDC.
Information is collected from these
records about the characteristics of the
victims and suspects, the circumstances
of the deaths, and the weapons
involved. States use standardized data
elements and software designed by CDC.
Ultimately, this information will guide
states in designing programs that reduce
multiple forms of violence.
Neither victim families nor suspects
are contacted to collect this information.
It all comes from existing records and is
collected by state health department
staff or their subcontractors. Health
departments incur an average of 2.0
hours per death in identifying the
deaths from death certificates,
contacting the police and medical
examiners to get copies of or to view the
relevant records, abstracting all the
records, various data processing tasks,
various administrative tasks, data
utilization, training, communications,
etc.
Violent deaths include all homicides,
suicides, legal interventions, deaths
from undetermined causes, and
unintentional firearm deaths. There are
50,000 such deaths annually among U.S.
residents, so the average state will
experience approximately 1,000 such
deaths each year.
There are no costs to the respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden hours are
55,000.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-07-0222]
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 e-mail
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.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) 2007-2009, (OMB No.
0920-0222)--Extension--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) conducts
questionnaire pre-testing and evaluation activities for CDC surveys
(such as the NCHS National Health Interview Survey, OMB No. 0920-0214)
and other federally sponsored surveys. The QDRL conducts cognitive
interviews, focus groups, mini field-pretests, and experimental
research in laboratory and field settings, both for applied
questionnaire evaluation and more basic research on response errors in
surveys.
In a cognitive interview, a questionnaire design specialist
interviews a volunteer participant. QDRL participants are usually
recruited by expressing their personal willingness to participate. They
read or hear about the study through media advertisements, flyers, and
word-of-mouth, and either call the laboratory answering machine number
or contact a person coordinating the recruitment. Thus, participation
is strictly voluntary and participants are not chosen randomly.
The most common questionnaire evaluation method is the cognitive
interview. The interviewer administers the draft survey questions as
written, but also probes the participant in depth about interpretations
of questions, recall processes used to answer them, and adequacy of
response categories to express answers, while noting points of
confusion and errors in responding. Interviews are generally conducted
in small rounds of 10-15 interviews; ideally, the questionnaire is re-
worked between rounds and revisions are tested interactively until
interviews yield relatively few new insights. When possible, cognitive
interviews are conducted in the survey's intended mode of
administration. For example, when testing telephone survey
questionnaires, participants often respond to the questions via a
telephone in a laboratory room. Under this condition, the participant
answers without face-to-face interaction. QDRL staff watch for response
difficulties from an observation room, and then conduct a face-to-face
debriefing with in-depth probes. Cognitive interviewing provides useful
data on questionnaire performance at minimal cost and respondent
burden. Similar methodology has been adopted by other Federal agencies,
as well as by academic and commercial survey organizations. NCHS is
requesting 3 years of OMB Clearance for the project. There are no costs
to respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized
burden hours are 600.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Projects Number of responses/ Average hours
participants participant per response
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QDRL Interviews:
(1) NCHS Surveys............................................ 120 1 1.25
(2) Other questionnaire testing............................. 120 1 1.25
(3) Research on the effects of alternative questionnaire 500 1 18/60
design.....................................................
(4) General Methodological Research......................... 60 1 1.25
Focus Groups (5 groups of 10)................................... 50 1 1.5
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Dated: November 9, 2006.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E6-19373 Filed 11-15-06; 8:45 am]
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