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automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: July 8, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E9–17203 Filed 7–21–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
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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.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on May 13th, 2009 and allowed
60 days for public comment. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
This notice differs from the 60 day
notice in the following ways: (1) The
burden hours are increased from 200 to
250, and (2) an incentive experiment
has been added.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by August 21, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by email at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
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.
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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:
Proposed Project
‘‘Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental
to CAHPS Hospital Survey—Pretest of
Proposed Questions and Methodology’’
AHRQ proposes to conduct a pretest
of the Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS®) 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 CAHPS®
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 CAHPS®
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
CAHPS® Hospital Survey.
This study will be conducted for
AHRQ by its contractor, 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 (1) the quality, effectiveness,
efficiency, appropriateness and value of
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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.
e. Incentive experiment—Provide
information on the effectiveness of a
post-paid, $5 incentive as a mechanism
to enhance response by randomizing
half the sample at one site to an
experiment in which a post-paid
incentive of $5 is provided for
completing the survey.
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 a
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®
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
discharged to a hospice facility or died
during the hospitalization. Testing sites
will be selected purposively based on
several considerations, including ability
to execute the activities necessary to
participate in the pilot, number of beds,
number of discharges for medical,
surgical, and obstetric patients, average
length of stay, location (urban versus
rural), profit status, and academic
medical center status.
The draw will be a sample large
enough to yield approximately 600
completes. It is assumed that
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approximately 1,200 patients will be
sampled across all field sites with a
response rate of 50%. This pretest will
use a mixed mail-telephone mode of
data collection which will include the
following steps:
• Mailing an advanced notification
letter.
• Mailing of the questionnaire and
cover letter.
• Postcard reminder.
• A second mailing of the
questionnaire to non-respondents.
• Up to 10 telephone calls to every
mail non-respondent approximately two
weeks after the final mailing.
Every effort will be made to maximize
the response rate, while retaining the
voluntary nature of the effort. An
advance notice will be mailed prior to
mailing the survey and will include a
letter explaining what the survey is
about, who is doing it and why, and
providing contact information for
questions. The second mailing and
telephone follow-up are expected to
result in significant increases in
response. Every effort to maximize the
response rate among Spanish-speaking
respondents will be made. A Spanish
version of the advance notice, the
questionnaire, cover letters, and the
reminder card, as well as a Spanish
version of the telephone transcript has
been developed. The cover letters in
English include a note in Spanish
instructing respondents to call a toll free
number if they would like to receive a
copy of the survey in Spanish. In
addition, participating field sites will
ask for information on language
preference and/or race/ethnicity of
sample patients so that the mailing of
the survey can be tailored for Spanishspeakers.
Finally, phone follow-up to
respondents who do not complete the
survey by mail will be conducted by
bilingual interviewers so that those who
want to complete the survey by
telephone in either English or Spanish
can accommodated.
Surveys generally do not yield
complete responses from every
individual sampled from the
population. In this analysis, patterns of
both unit and item nonresponse will be
examined and modeled, and the
potential impact of nonresponse bias
assessed. A common set of
administrative variables (e.g., age,
gender, race/ethnicity) will be used to
predict unit nonresponse. These
variables and others collected on the
survey itself will be used as predictors
of item nonresponse. Case mix
adjustment and nonresponse weights
will be used to more accurately reflect
consumer experiences with health care
in the field test hospitals. Multivariate
logistic regression models will be used
to analyze the factors associated with
unit nonresponse and item
nonresponse.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden for the respondents’
time to participate in this data
collection. The CAHPS Hospital Survey
Health Literacy Module will be
completed by about 600 persons. The
estimated response time of 25 minutes
is based on the written length of the
survey and AHRQ’s experience with
previous CAHPS® surveys of
comparable length that were fielded
with similar samples. The total burden
hours are estimated to be 250 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the respondents’ cost
burden associated with their time to
participate in this data collection. The
total cost burden of completing pretest
is estimated to be $4,890.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone follow-up .............................
600
1
25/60
250
Total ..........................................................................................................
600
1
na
250
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average hourly wage rate*
Total cost
burden
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone follow-up .............................
600
250
$19.56
$4,890
Total ..........................................................................................................
600
250
na
4,890
*Based upon the average wages, ‘‘National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2007,’’ U.S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
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The total cost for the contracted
service is approximately $245,000 and
the cost for AHRQ staff to oversee the
project is $50,000, including benefits.
The project was initiated in October of
2008 and it is forecasted that it will be
completed in 18 months. The initial
developmental work has been
completed within the first ten months of
the project and it is forecasted that the
pretest, analysis and finalization of the
Health Literacy Item Set supplemental
to CAHPS Hospital Survey can be
completed within the next eight
months. It is estimated that the total cost
of the project is approximately
$295,000. The annualized cost of the
project is approximately $196,669.
EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED COST
Cost component
Total cost
Review of literature ..................................................................................................................................................
Cognitive interviews .................................................................................................................................................
Field test ..................................................................................................................................................................
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$20,000
60,000
90,000
Annualized
cost
$13,334
40,000
60,000
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EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED COST—Continued
Cost component
Total cost
Annualized
cost
Data analyses ..........................................................................................................................................................
Finalize survey .........................................................................................................................................................
AHRQ project management ....................................................................................................................................
40,000
35,000
50,000
26,667
23,334
33,334
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
295,000
196,669
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AFIRQ’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
AHRQ health care research and health
care information dissemination
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of
burden (including hours and costs) of
the proposed collection(s) 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 Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: July 8, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E9–17201 Filed 7–21–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB review; Comment
Request
Title: National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being Second Cohort
(NSCAW II).
OMB No.: 0970–0202.
Description: The Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS)
intends to collect follow-up data on a
sample of children and families for the
National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). The
NSCAW was authorized under section
427 of the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act
of 1996. The NSCAW is the only source
of nationally representative, firsthand
information about the functioning and
well-being, service needs, and service
utilization of children and families who
come to the attention of the child
welfare system. Information is collected
about children’s cognitive, social,
emotional, behavioral, and adaptive
functioning, as well as family and
community factors that are likely to
influence their functioning. Family
service needs and service utilization
also are addressed in the data collection.
Selection of the current NSCAW
sample and baseline data collection
began in 2007 with a final anticipated
sample size of 5,700 children. The
proposed data collection will allow for
follow-up of this sample 18 months
post-baseline, and will follow the same
format as that used in the baseline
round and will employ, with only
modest revisions, the same instruments
that were used in the previous round.
Data from NSCAW are made available to
the research community through
licensing arrangements from the
National Data Archive on Child Abuse
and Neglect at Cornell University.
Respondents: Children and their
associated permanent or foster
caregivers, caseworkers, and teachers.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
Instrument
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Child Interview ...............................................................................................
Caregiver Interview ........................................................................................
Caseworker Interview ....................................................................................
Teacher Questionnaire ..................................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 5,882.
Additional Information: Copies of the
proposed collection may be obtained by
writing to the Administration for
Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370
L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington,
DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports
Clearance Officer. All requests should
be identified by the title of the
information collection. E-mail address:
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Average burden
hours per
response
1
1
3
1
1.33
1.9
1
.50
1,424
1,424
285
855
OMB Comment: OMB is required to
make a decision concerning the
collection of information between 30
and 60 days after publication of this
document in the Federal Register.
Therefore, a comment is best assured of
having its full effect if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication. Written
comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collection should
be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Fax: 202–395–6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for the
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Total burden
hours
1,894
2,706
855
428
Administration for Children and
Families.
Dated: July 16, 2009.
Seth F. Chamberlain,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
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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) 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.
This proposed information collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on May 13th, 2009 and allowed 60 days for public
comment. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days
for public comment. This notice differs from the 60 day notice in the
following ways: (1) The burden hours are increased from 200 to 250, and
(2) an incentive experiment has been added.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by August 21, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by
e-mail at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ's desk
officer).
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.
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:
Proposed Project
``Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental to CAHPS Hospital Survey--
Pretest of Proposed Questions and Methodology''
AHRQ proposes to conduct a pretest of the Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS[reg]) 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
CAHPS[reg] 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 CAHPS[reg] 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 CAHPS[reg] Hospital Survey.
This study will be conducted for AHRQ by its contractor, 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 (1) 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.
e. Incentive experiment--Provide information on the effectiveness
of a post-paid, $5 incentive as a mechanism to enhance response by
randomizing half the sample at one site to an experiment in which a
post-paid incentive of $5 is provided for completing the survey.
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 a 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[reg] 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 discharged
to a hospice facility or died during the hospitalization. Testing sites
will be selected purposively based on several considerations, including
ability to execute the activities necessary to participate in the
pilot, number of beds, number of discharges for medical, surgical, and
obstetric patients, average length of stay, location (urban versus
rural), profit status, and academic medical center status.
The draw will be a sample large enough to yield approximately 600
completes. It is assumed that
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approximately 1,200 patients will be sampled across all field sites
with a response rate of 50%. This pretest will use a mixed mail-
telephone mode of data collection which will include the following
steps:
Mailing an advanced notification letter.
Mailing of the questionnaire and cover letter.
Postcard reminder.
A second mailing of the questionnaire to non-respondents.
Up to 10 telephone calls to every mail non-respondent
approximately two weeks after the final mailing.
Every effort will be made to maximize the response rate, while
retaining the voluntary nature of the effort. An advance notice will be
mailed prior to mailing the survey and will include a letter explaining
what the survey is about, who is doing it and why, and providing
contact information for questions. The second mailing and telephone
follow-up are expected to result in significant increases in response.
Every effort to maximize the response rate among Spanish-speaking
respondents will be made. A Spanish version of the advance notice, the
questionnaire, cover letters, and the reminder card, as well as a
Spanish version of the telephone transcript has been developed. The
cover letters in English include a note in Spanish instructing
respondents to call a toll free number if they would like to receive a
copy of the survey in Spanish. In addition, participating field sites
will ask for information on language preference and/or race/ethnicity
of sample patients so that the mailing of the survey can be tailored
for Spanish-speakers.
Finally, phone follow-up to respondents who do not complete the
survey by mail will be conducted by bilingual interviewers so that
those who want to complete the survey by telephone in either English or
Spanish can accommodated.
Surveys generally do not yield complete responses from every
individual sampled from the population. In this analysis, patterns of
both unit and item nonresponse will be examined and modeled, and the
potential impact of nonresponse bias assessed. A common set of
administrative variables (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity) will be
used to predict unit nonresponse. These variables and others collected
on the survey itself will be used as predictors of item nonresponse.
Case mix adjustment and nonresponse weights will be used to more
accurately reflect consumer experiences with health care in the field
test hospitals. Multivariate logistic regression models will be used to
analyze the factors associated with unit nonresponse and item
nonresponse.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden for the
respondents' time to participate in this data collection. The CAHPS
Hospital Survey Health Literacy Module will be completed by about 600
persons. The estimated response time of 25 minutes is based on the
written length of the survey and AHRQ's experience with previous
CAHPS[reg] surveys of comparable length that were fielded with similar
samples. The total burden hours are estimated to be 250 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the respondents' cost burden associated with their
time to participate in this data collection. The total cost burden of
completing pretest is estimated to be $4,890.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone 600 1 25/60 250
follow-up......................................
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 600 1 na 250
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate* burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone 600 250 $19.56 $4,890
follow-up......................................
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 600 250 na 4,890
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*Based upon the average wages, ``National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May
2007,'' U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
The total cost for the contracted service is approximately $245,000
and the cost for AHRQ staff to oversee the project is $50,000,
including benefits. The project was initiated in October of 2008 and it
is forecasted that it will be completed in 18 months. The initial
developmental work has been completed within the first ten months of
the project and it is forecasted that the pretest, analysis and
finalization of the Health Literacy Item Set supplemental to CAHPS
Hospital Survey can be completed within the next eight months. It is
estimated that the total cost of the project is approximately $295,000.
The annualized cost of the project is approximately $196,669.
Exhibit 3--Estimated Cost
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Annualized
Cost component Total cost cost
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Review of literature.................... $20,000 $13,334
Cognitive interviews.................... 60,000 40,000
Field test.............................. 90,000 60,000
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Data analyses........................... 40,000 26,667
Finalize survey......................... 35,000 23,334
AHRQ project management................. 50,000 33,334
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Total............................... 295,000 196,669
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited Paperwork Reduction Act
legislation, comments on AFIRQ'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
AHRQ health care research and health care information dissemination
functions, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours
and costs) of the proposed collection(s) 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 Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: July 8, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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