Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations, 22557-22558 [E9-11128]

Download as PDF 22557 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 91 / Wednesday, May 13, 2009 / Notices ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES Responses per respondent Total responses Hours per response Total burden hours Form Number of respondents Survey of Consumers ....................... Survey of the Distributors of the Consumer Tools. Consumer Focus Groups .................. 563 ................................................... 40 ..................................................... 1 1 563 40 0.5 0.5 281.5 20 4 sites × 16 focus group participants per site = 64. 1 64 1.5 96 Total ........................................... 667 ................................................... 3 667 2.5 397.5 E-mail comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10–33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice. 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. Dated: May 5, 2009. Alexandra Huttinger, Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination. [FR Doc. E9–11086 Filed 5–12–09; 8:45 am] Proposed Project The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) OMB# 0920–0607— Revision—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). BILLING CODE 4165–15–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [60Day–09–0607] Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations 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 404–639–5960 or send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, CDC Acting 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 VerDate Nov<24>2008 20:03 May 12, 2009 Jkt 217001 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 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 (SHRs) does collect basic information about the victim-suspect PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 relationship and circumstances related to the homicide. SHRs do 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) provides slightly more information than SHRs, but it covers less of the country than SHRs. NIBRS also only provides data regarding homicides. Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports does 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 2.5 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. This revision is a request to allow 10 new state health departments to be added to the currently funded 17, if funding becomes available. This may bring the total to 27 by the year 2012. E:\FR\FM\13MYN1.SGM 13MYN1 22558 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 91 / Wednesday, May 13, 2009 / Notices Violent deaths include all homicides, suicides, legal interventions, deaths from undetermined causes, and unintentional firearm deaths. The average state will experience approximately 1,000 such deaths each year. There is no cost to respondents to participate other than their time. ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Respondents Number of respondents Number of responses/ respondent Average burden/ response (in hours) Total burden (in hours) State Health Departments ............................................................................... 27 1,000 2.5 67,500 Dated: May 6, 2009. Maryam I. Daneshvar, Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. E9–11128 Filed 5–12–09; 8:45 am] Proposed Project BILLING CODE 4163–18–P AHRQ proposes to conduct a pretest of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPSR) Hospital Survey health literacy module. The CAHPS program is a multi-year initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ first launched the program in October 1995 in response to concerns about the lack of good information about the quality of health plans from the enrollees’ perspective. Numerous public and private organizations collected information on enrollee and patient satisfaction, but the surveys varied from sponsor to sponsor and often changed from year to year. The CAHPSR program was designed to make it possible to compare survey results across sponsors and over time, and to generate tools and resources that sponsors can use to produce understandable and usable comparative information for consumers. Over time, the program has expanded beyond its original focus on health plans to address a range of health care services to meet the various needs of health care consumers, purchasers, health plans, providers, and policymakers. Based on a literature review and an assessment of currently available questionnaires, AHRQ identified the need to develop a health literacy module for the CAHPSR Hospital Survey. The intent of the planned module is to examine patients’ perspectives on how well health information is communicated to them by healthcare professionals in the hospital setting. The objective of the new module is to provide information to health plans, hospitals, clinicians, group practices, and other interested parties regarding the quality of health information delivered to patients. The set of questions about health literacy will be evaluated as a supplement to the CAHPSR Hospital Survey. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Conunent Request AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS. ACTION: Notice. 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) approve the proposed information collection project: ‘‘Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental to CAHPS Hospital Survey—Pretest of Proposed Questions and Methodology.’’ 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 July 13, 2009. Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowit@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. ADDRESSES: 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: VerDate Nov<24>2008 18:44 May 12, 2009 Jkt 217001 ‘‘Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental to CAHPS Hospital Survey—Pretest of Proposed Questions and Methodology’’ PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 This study will be conducted for AHRQ by its contactor, RAND Corporation. It is being conducted pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority to conduct research and evaluations on health care and systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and value of health care services. See 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1). This study is a one-time field test to be completed in the calendar years 2009 and 2010. The field test to be conducted under this request will be done for the following purposes: a. Analysis of item wording—Assess candidate wordings for items. b. Analysis of participation rate— Evaluate the overall response rate and the proportion of that obtained from mail versus telephone modes of data collection. c. Case mix adjustment analysis— Evaluate variables that need to be considered for case mix adjustment of scores. d. Psychometric Analysis—Provide information for the revision of the health literacy item set based on the assessment of the reliability and validity. The end result will be collection of the data related to the assessment of patients’ perspective on how well health information is communicated to them by health care professionals in hospital setting. The field testing will ensure that future data collections yield high quality data and minimize respondent burden, increase agency efficiency, and improve responsiveness to the public. The survey items will be added to currently available CAHPS R surveys and will enhance the ability of hospitals to assess the quality of their services. Method of Collection The potential respondent universe is persons who had at least one overnight stay at a hospital within the previous five months. Excluded from the study will be those who were less than 18 years old at the time of their admission, had a psychiatric diagnosis, were E:\FR\FM\13MYN1.SGM 13MYN1

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[FR Doc No: E9-11128]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-09-0607]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    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 404-639-5960 or 
send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, CDC Acting 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.

Proposed Project

    The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) OMB 
0920-0607--Revision--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 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[acute]s Supplemental Homicide Report (SHRs) does collect basic 
information about the victim-suspect relationship and circumstances 
related to the homicide. SHRs do 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[acute]s National Incident Based Reporting 
System (NIBRS) provides slightly more information than SHRs, but it 
covers less of the country than SHRs. NIBRS also only provides data 
regarding homicides. Also, the Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports 
does 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 2.5 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.
    This revision is a request to allow 10 new state health departments 
to be added to the currently funded 17, if funding becomes available. 
This may bring the total to 27 by the year 2012.

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Violent deaths include all homicides, suicides, legal interventions, 
deaths from undetermined causes, and unintentional firearm deaths. The 
average state will experience approximately 1,000 such deaths each 
year.
    There is no cost to respondents to participate other than their 
time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                  Number of     Average burden/
                 Respondents                     Number of        responses/     response  (in     Total burden
                                                respondents       respondent         hours)         (in hours)
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State Health Departments....................              27            1,000              2.5           67,500
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    Dated: May 6, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E9-11128 Filed 5-12-09; 8:45 am]
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