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collected from a sample of 338
hospitals; 5% of hospitalized patients
acquired an infection not present at the
time of admission. Because of the
substantial resources necessary to
conduct hospital-wide surveillance in
an ongoing manner, CDC’s current HAI
surveillance system, the National
Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN),
focuses instead on device-associated
and procedure-associated infections in a
variety of patient locations, and does
not receive data on all types of HAIs to
make hospital-wide burden estimates.
The purpose of this data collection is to
assess the magnitude and types of HAIs
occurring in all patient populations
patients in the participating hospitals.
CDC will use the data provided to
estimate the prevalence of HAIs across
this representative sample of U.S.
hospitals as well as the distribution of
infection types and causative organisms.
CDC will also use this data to promote
its goal of preventing HAIs.
The proposed project supports CDC’s
Strategic Goal of ‘‘Healthy Healthcare
Settings,’’ specifically the objective to
‘‘Promote compliance with evidencebased guidelines for preventing,
identifying, and managing disease in
healthcare settings.’’ There are no costs
to respondents, other than their time to
complete the survey.
within acute care hospitals in order to
inform decisions by local and national
policy makers and hospital infection
control personnel regarding appropriate
targets and strategies for HAI
prevention. Such assessments can be
obtained in periodic national prevalence
studies, such as those that have been
conducted in several European
countries.
The proposed survey will be
conducted in a representative sample of
500 U.S. acute care hospitals, and will
require infection control personnel in
each participating hospital to collect
surveillance data on CDC-defined HAIs
on a single day for a sample of eligible
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
Infection Control Practitioners .........................................................................
500
74
15/60
9,250
Total ..........................................................................................................
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9,250
Dated: January 22, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
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
NIOSH Customer Satisfaction
Survey—Reinstatement—National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, (NIOSH) Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, (CDC).
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Background and brief description
The mission of the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) is to promote safety and health
at work for all people through research
and prevention. The Occupational
Safety and Health Act, Public Law 91–
596 (section 20[a][1]) authorizes the
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct
research to advance the health and
safety of workers. NIOSH conducted a
baseline survey in 2003 to assess
customer satisfaction with NIOSH
communication products, services, and
methods of dissemination [OMB #0920–
0544 expired 03/31/2003]. The baseline
survey established an initial benchmark
for gauging the effectiveness of NIOSH’s
communication products, outreach
services, and identified areas for
improvement.
NIOSH is conducting a follow-up
Customer Satisfaction Survey of
occupational safety and health
professionals. A mail survey is planned
with an option that will allow
respondents to complete the survey
electronically. The current survey is a 5year follow-up designed to enable
NIOSH to determine the current level of
customer satisfaction and identify
changes that have occurred in the
intervening years. The purpose of this
survey is to evaluate the effectiveness of
NIOSH’s communication and
dissemination program as a whole in
serving the broad occupational safety
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and health professional community by
addressing five questions:
(1) To what extent are NIOSH
communication products viewed as
credible, useful sources of information
on occupational safety and health
issues?
(2) To what extent has NIOSH been
successful in distributing its
communication products to its primary
and traditional audience?
(3) To what extent, and in what ways,
have NIOSH communication products
influenced workplace safety and health
program policies and practices, or
resolved other related issues?
(4) What improvements could be
made in the nature of NIOSH
communication products and/or their
manner of delivery that could enhance
their use and benefits?
(5) What is the reach and perceived
importance of NIOSH outreach
initiatives?
The survey will be directed to the
community of occupational safety and
health professionals, as this audience
represents the primary and traditional
customer base for NIOSH information
materials. For this purpose four major
associations identified with
occupational safety and health matters
have indicated their willingness to
partner with NIOSH on this follow-up
survey, as they did on the baseline.
These are the American Industrial
Hygiene Association (AIHA), the
American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the
American Association of Occupational
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Health Nurses (AAOHN), and the
American Society of Safety Engineers
(ASSE). There is no cost to respondents.
The estimated annualized burden hours
are 205.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS:
Number of
respondents
Form name
Type of respondent
NIOSH Customer Satisfaction Survey ..................
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
570
150
1
1
20/60
6/60
Respondents familiar with NIOSH .......................
Respondents not familiar with NIOSH .................
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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Number of
responses
per
respondent
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer at 404–639–5960 or
send comments to CDC/ATSDR
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden 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
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
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Proposed Project
National Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NAMCS) (OMB No. 0920–
0234)—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 (DHHS),
acting through NCHS, shall collect
statistics on ‘‘utilization of health care’’
in the United States. NAMCS was
conducted annually from 1973 to 1981,
again in 1985, and resumed as an
annual survey in 1989. The purpose of
NAMCS is to meet the needs and
demands for statistical information
about the provision of ambulatory
medical care services in the United
States. NCHS is seeking OMB approval
to extend this survey for three years.
Ambulatory services are rendered in a
wide variety of settings, including
physician 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.
NAMCS provides a range of baseline
data on the characteristics of the users
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and providers of ambulatory medical
care. Data collected include the patients’
demographic characteristics, reason(s)
for visit, provider diagnoses, diagnostic
services, medications, and visit
disposition. In addition, information on
cervical cancer screening practices in
physician offices will continue to be
collected through the Cervical Cancer
Screening Supplement (CCSS), which
was added in 2006. It will allow CDC’s
National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion
(NCCDPHP) to evaluate cervical cancer
screening methods and the use of
Human Papillomavirus DNA tests.
A supplemental mail survey on the
adoption and use of electronic medical
records (EMRs) in physician offices was
added to NAMCS in 2008, and will
continue. These data were requested by
the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology
(ONC), Department of Health and
Human Services, to measure progress
toward goals for EMR adoption. The
mail survey will collect information on
characteristics of physician practices
and the capabilities of EMRs used in
those practices.
In 2009, NAMCS will include an
additional sample of 70 physicians to
pretest additional questionnaire items
on laboratory values. These new items
were requested by the Division of Heart
Disease and Stroke Prevention within
NCCDPHP to better understand the
extent to which ambulatory health care
providers identify and control abnormal
values before and after cardiovascular
disease.
Users of NAMCS data include, but are
not limited to, Congressional offices,
Federal agencies, state and local
governments, schools of public health,
colleges and universities, private
industry, nonprofit foundations,
professional associations, clinicians,
researchers, administrators, and health
planners.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time to participate.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-09-0544]
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
NIOSH Customer Satisfaction Survey--Reinstatement--National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, (NIOSH) Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC).
Background and brief description
The mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) is to promote safety and health at work for all people
through research and prevention. The Occupational Safety and Health
Act, Public Law 91-596 (section 20[a][1]) authorizes the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct
research to advance the health and safety of workers. NIOSH conducted a
baseline survey in 2003 to assess customer satisfaction with NIOSH
communication products, services, and methods of dissemination [OMB
0920-0544 expired 03/31/2003]. The baseline survey established
an initial benchmark for gauging the effectiveness of NIOSH's
communication products, outreach services, and identified areas for
improvement.
NIOSH is conducting a follow-up Customer Satisfaction Survey of
occupational safety and health professionals. A mail survey is planned
with an option that will allow respondents to complete the survey
electronically. The current survey is a 5-year follow-up designed to
enable NIOSH to determine the current level of customer satisfaction
and identify changes that have occurred in the intervening years. The
purpose of this survey is to evaluate the effectiveness of NIOSH's
communication and dissemination program as a whole in serving the broad
occupational safety and health professional community by addressing
five questions:
(1) To what extent are NIOSH communication products viewed as
credible, useful sources of information on occupational safety and
health issues?
(2) To what extent has NIOSH been successful in distributing its
communication products to its primary and traditional audience?
(3) To what extent, and in what ways, have NIOSH communication
products influenced workplace safety and health program policies and
practices, or resolved other related issues?
(4) What improvements could be made in the nature of NIOSH
communication products and/or their manner of delivery that could
enhance their use and benefits?
(5) What is the reach and perceived importance of NIOSH outreach
initiatives?
The survey will be directed to the community of occupational safety
and health professionals, as this audience represents the primary and
traditional customer base for NIOSH information materials. For this
purpose four major associations identified with occupational safety and
health matters have indicated their willingness to partner with NIOSH
on this follow-up survey, as they did on the baseline. These are the
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), the American College of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the American
Association of Occupational
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Health Nurses (AAOHN), and the American Society of Safety Engineers
(ASSE). There is no cost to respondents. The estimated annualized
burden hours are 205.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
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Number of Average
Number of responses burden per
Form name Type of respondent respondents per response
respondent (in hours)
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NIOSH Customer Satisfaction Survey........ Respondents familiar with 570 1 20/60
NIOSH.
Respondents not familiar with 150 1 6/60
NIOSH.
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Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-2005 Filed 1-29-09; 8:45 am]
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