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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.
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:
‘‘Collection of Information for Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality’s
(AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture Comparative Database.’’
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 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 November 2, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrg.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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.1efkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Collection of Information for Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality’s
(AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture Comparative Database
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) requests that the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approve, under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ’s
collection of information for the AHRQ
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Culture (Hospital SOPS) Comparative
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Database. The Hospital SOPS
Comparative Database consists of data
from the AHRQ Hospital Survey on
Patient Safety Culture. Hospitals in the
U.S. are asked to voluntarily submit
data from the survey to AHRQ, through
its contractor, Westat. The database was
developed by AHRQ in 2006 in
response to requests from hospitals
interested in knowing how their patient
safety culture survey results compare to
those of other hospitals in their efforts
to improve patient safety.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine
called for health care organizations to
develop a ‘‘culture of safety’’ in which
their workforces and processes focus on
improving the reliability and safety of
care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is
Human: Building a Safer Health
System). To respond to the need for
tools to assess patient safety culture in
health care, AHRQ developed and pilot
tested the Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture with OMB approval
(OMB No. 0935–01 15; Approved 2/4/
2003). The survey was designed to
enable hospitals to assess staff opinions
about patient safety issues, medical
error, and error reporting and includes
42 items that measure 12 dimensions of
patient safety culture. AHRQ released
the survey in the public domain along
with a Survey User’s Guide and other
toolkit materials in November 2004 on
the AHRQ Web site. Since its release,
the survey has been voluntarily used by
hundreds of hospitals in the U.S.
The Hospital SOPS survey and the
Hospital SOPS Comparative Database
are supported by AHRQ to meet its goals
of promoting improvements in the
quality and safety of health care in
hospital settings. This project is
conducted pursuant to AHRQ’s
statutory authority to conduct and
support research on health care and on
systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities with respect to the
quality, effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of health care
services and with respect to health
statistics, surveys, and database
development. See 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(l)
and (8). The surveys, toolkit materials,
and comparative database results are all
made available in the public domain
along with technical assistance,
provided by AHRQ through its
contractor at no charge to hospitals, to
facilitate the use of these materials for
hospital patient safety and quality
improvement.
Method of Collection
Information for the Hospital SOPS
database has been collected by AHRQ
on an annual basis since 2006. Hospitals
are asked to voluntarily submit their
Hospital SOPS survey data to the
comparative database between May 1
and June 30. The data are then cleaned
and aggregated and used to produce a
comparative Database Report that
displays averages, standard deviations,
and percentile scores on the survey’s 42
items and 12 patient safety culture
dimensions, as well as displaying these
results by hospital characteristics (bed
size, teaching status, ownership) and
respondent characteristics (hospital
work area, staff position, and those with
direct interaction with patients). In
addition, trend data, showing changes
in scores over time, are presented from
hospitals that have submitted to the
database more than once.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Hospitals administer the AHRQ
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Culture every 16 months on average.
Therefore, the number of hospital
submissions to the database varies each
year because hospitals do not submit
data every year. The 250 respondents/
point-of-contacts (POCs) shown in
Exhibit 1 are based on an estimated
increase in the number of submissions
in 2010 and 2011 (above the 180
respondents from 2009). Data
submission is typically handled by one
POC who is either a hospital patient
safety manager or a survey vendor. The
POC completes a number of data
submission steps and forms, beginning
with completion of an online Eligibility
and Registration Form. The POCs
typically submit data on behalf of 3
hospitals, on average, because many
hospitals are part of a multi-hospital
system that is submitting data, or the
POC is a vendor that is submitting data
for multiple hospitals. In 2009, 180
POCs submitted data on behalf of a total
of 535 hospitals (an average of 3
hospital submissions per POC). Exhibits
1 and 2 are based on the estimated
number of individual POCs who will
complete the database submission steps
and forms in the coming years, not
based on the number of hospitals.
The Patient Safety Improvement
Initiatives Form is completed only by
POCs from trending hospitals that have
submitted data more than once, so only
about half of the POCs each year will be
asked to complete the form for each of
the 3 hospitals (on average) they are
submitting data for. The Hospital
Information Form is completed by all
POCs for each of their hospitals. The
total annual burden hours are estimated
to be 1,508.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to submit their data.
The cost burden is estimated to be
$69,438 annually.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Number of
responses per
POC
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Eligibility/Registration Form and Data Submission* ........................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Patient Safety Improvement Initiatives Form (for trending hospitals only) .....
Hospital Information Form ...............................................................................
250
250
125
250
1
1
3
3
5.6
3/60
5/60
5/60
1,400
13
32
63
Total ..........................................................................................................
875
NA
NA
1,508
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* The Eligibility and Registration Form requires 3 minutes to complete; however, about 5.5 hours is required to prepare/plan for the data submission. This includes the amount of time POCs and other hospital staff (CEO, lawyer, database administrator) typically spend deciding whether
to participate in the database and preparing their materials and data set for submission to the database, and performing the submission.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Eligibility/Registration Form and Data Submission ..........................................
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Total burden
hours
250
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Average
hourly wage
rate*
$46.11
Total cost
burden
$64,554
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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN—Continued
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate*
Total cost
burden
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Patient Safety Improvement Initiatives Form (for trending hospitals only) .....
Hospital Information Form ...............................................................................
250
125
250
13
32
63
45.22
45.22
45.22
588
1,447
2,849
Total ..........................................................................................................
875
1,508
NA
69,438
* Wage rates were calculated using the mean hourly wage based on occupational employment and wage estimates from the Dept of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May 2008 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates NAICS 622000—Hospitals, located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics3_622000.htm. Wage rate of $46.22 is based on the mean hourly wages for Medical and Health
Services Managers. Wage rate of $46.11 is the weighted mean hourly wage for: Medical and Health Services Managers ($45.22 × 2.6 hours =
$117.57), Lawyers ($62.95 × .5 hours = $31.48), Chief Executives ($89.16 × .5 hours = $44.58), and Database Administrators ($32.30 × 2 hours
= $64.60) [Weighted mean ($117.57 + 31.48 + 44.58 + 64.60)/5.6 hours = $258.23/5.6 hours = $46.11/hour].
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Exhibit 3 shows the estimated
annualized cost to the government for
developing, maintaining, and managing
the database and analyzing the data and
producing reports. The cost is estimated
to be $250,000 annually.
Dated: August 26, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED
COST
Cost component
Database Development and
Maintenance ......................
Data Submission ..................
Data Analysis & Reports ......
Total ...............................
Annualized
cost
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
The Patient Safety and
Quality Improvement Act of 2005, 42
U.S.C. 299b–21 to b–26 (Patient Safety
Act), provides for the formation of
Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs),
which collect, aggregate, and analyze
confidential information regarding the
quality and safety of healthcare
delivery. The Patient Safety Act (at 42
U.S.C. 299b–23) authorizes the
collection of this information in a
standardized manner, as explained in
the related Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Final Rule, 42 CFR part 3
(Patient Safety Rule), published in the
Federal Register on November 21, 2008:
73 FR 70731–70814. As authorized by
the Secretary of HHS, AHRQ
coordinates the development of a set of
common definitions and reporting
formats (Common Formats) that allow
healthcare providers to voluntarily
collect and submit standardized
information regarding patient safety
events. The initial release of the formats,
Version 0.1 Beta, was announced in the
Federal Register on August 29, 2008: 73
FR 50974–50976. The purpose of this
notice is to announce the availability of
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act 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
AHRQ health care research, quality
improvement and 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
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Common Formats for Patient Safety
$50,000 Data Collection and Event Reporting
75,000 AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
125,000 and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
250,000 ACTION: Notice of Availability—
Common Formats Version 1.0.
Request for Comments
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the expanded and enhanced Common
Formats Version 1.0 and the process for
their continued development and
refinement.
Ongoing public input.
The Common Formats can
be accessed electronically at the
following HHS Web site: https://
www.pso.ahrq.gov/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Susan Grinder, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ,
540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850;
Telephone (toll free): (866) 403–3697;
Telephone (local): (301) 427–1111; TTY
(toll free): (866) 438–7231; TTY (local):
(301) 427–1130; E-mail:
pso@ahrq.hhs.gov.
DATES:
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Patient Safety Act and Patient
Safety Rule establish a framework by
which doctors, hospitals, and other
healthcare providers may voluntarily
report information regarding patient
safety events and quality of care.
Information that is assembled and
developed by providers for reporting to
PSOs and the information received and
analyzed by PSOs—called ‘‘patient
safety work product’’—is privileged and
confidential. Patient safety work
product is used to identify events,
patterns of care, and unsafe conditions
that increase risks and hazards to
patients. Definitions and other details
about PSOs and patient safety work
product are included in the Patient
Safety Rule.
The Patient Safety Act and Patient
Safety Rule require PSOs, to the extent
practical and appropriate, to collect
patient safety work product from
providers in a standardized manner in
order to permit valid comparisons of
similar cases among similar providers.
The collection of patient safety work
product allows the aggregation of
sufficient data to identify and address
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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: ``Collection of Information for Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality's (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Comparative Database.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 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 November 2, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by e-mail at
doris.lefkowitz@ahrg.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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by e-mail at
doris.1efkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Collection of Information for Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality's (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative
Database
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) requests that
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve, under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ's collection of information for the AHRQ
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (Hospital SOPS) Comparative
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Database. The Hospital SOPS Comparative Database consists of data from
the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Hospitals in the
U.S. are asked to voluntarily submit data from the survey to AHRQ,
through its contractor, Westat. The database was developed by AHRQ in
2006 in response to requests from hospitals interested in knowing how
their patient safety culture survey results compare to those of other
hospitals in their efforts to improve patient safety.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine called for health care
organizations to develop a ``culture of safety'' in which their
workforces and processes focus on improving the reliability and safety
of care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is Human: Building a Safer
Health System). To respond to the need for tools to assess patient
safety culture in health care, AHRQ developed and pilot tested the
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture with OMB approval (OMB No.
0935-01 15; Approved 2/4/2003). The survey was designed to enable
hospitals to assess staff opinions about patient safety issues, medical
error, and error reporting and includes 42 items that measure 12
dimensions of patient safety culture. AHRQ released the survey in the
public domain along with a Survey User's Guide and other toolkit
materials in November 2004 on the AHRQ Web site. Since its release, the
survey has been voluntarily used by hundreds of hospitals in the U.S.
The Hospital SOPS survey and the Hospital SOPS Comparative Database
are supported by AHRQ to meet its goals of promoting improvements in
the quality and safety of health care in hospital settings. This
project is conducted pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct
and support research on health care and on systems for the delivery of
such care, including activities with respect to the quality,
effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and value of health care
services and with respect to health statistics, surveys, and database
development. See 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(l) and (8). The surveys, toolkit
materials, and comparative database results are all made available in
the public domain along with technical assistance, provided by AHRQ
through its contractor at no charge to hospitals, to facilitate the use
of these materials for hospital patient safety and quality improvement.
Method of Collection
Information for the Hospital SOPS database has been collected by
AHRQ on an annual basis since 2006. Hospitals are asked to voluntarily
submit their Hospital SOPS survey data to the comparative database
between May 1 and June 30. The data are then cleaned and aggregated and
used to produce a comparative Database Report that displays averages,
standard deviations, and percentile scores on the survey's 42 items and
12 patient safety culture dimensions, as well as displaying these
results by hospital characteristics (bed size, teaching status,
ownership) and respondent characteristics (hospital work area, staff
position, and those with direct interaction with patients). In
addition, trend data, showing changes in scores over time, are
presented from hospitals that have submitted to the database more than
once.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Hospitals administer the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Culture every 16 months on average. Therefore, the number of hospital
submissions to the database varies each year because hospitals do not
submit data every year. The 250 respondents/point-of-contacts (POCs)
shown in Exhibit 1 are based on an estimated increase in the number of
submissions in 2010 and 2011 (above the 180 respondents from 2009).
Data submission is typically handled by one POC who is either a
hospital patient safety manager or a survey vendor. The POC completes a
number of data submission steps and forms, beginning with completion of
an online Eligibility and Registration Form. The POCs typically submit
data on behalf of 3 hospitals, on average, because many hospitals are
part of a multi-hospital system that is submitting data, or the POC is
a vendor that is submitting data for multiple hospitals. In 2009, 180
POCs submitted data on behalf of a total of 535 hospitals (an average
of 3 hospital submissions per POC). Exhibits 1 and 2 are based on the
estimated number of individual POCs who will complete the database
submission steps and forms in the coming years, not based on the number
of hospitals.
The Patient Safety Improvement Initiatives Form is completed only
by POCs from trending hospitals that have submitted data more than
once, so only about half of the POCs each year will be asked to
complete the form for each of the 3 hospitals (on average) they are
submitting data for. The Hospital Information Form is completed by all
POCs for each of their hospitals. The total annual burden hours are
estimated to be 1,508.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to submit their data. The cost burden is estimated to
be $69,438 annually.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Number of
Form name respondents/ responses per Hours per Total burden
POCs POC response hours
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Eligibility/Registration Form and Data 250 1 5.6 1,400
Submission*....................................
Data Use Agreement.............................. 250 1 3/60 13
Patient Safety Improvement Initiatives Form (for 125 3 5/60 32
trending hospitals only).......................
Hospital Information Form....................... 250 3 5/60 63
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Total....................................... 875 NA NA 1,508
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* The Eligibility and Registration Form requires 3 minutes to complete; however, about 5.5 hours is required to
prepare/plan for the data submission. This includes the amount of time POCs and other hospital staff (CEO,
lawyer, database administrator) typically spend deciding whether to participate in the database and preparing
their materials and data set for submission to the database, and performing the submission.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of
Form name respondents/ Total burden Average hourly Total cost
POCs hours wage rate* burden
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Eligibility/Registration Form and Data 250 1,400 $46.11 $64,554
Submission.....................................
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Data Use Agreement.............................. 250 13 45.22 588
Patient Safety Improvement Initiatives Form (for 125 32 45.22 1,447
trending hospitals only).......................
Hospital Information Form....................... 250 63 45.22 2,849
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Total....................................... 875 1,508 NA 69,438
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* Wage rates were calculated using the mean hourly wage based on occupational employment and wage estimates from
the Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2008 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and
Wage Estimates NAICS 622000--Hospitals, located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics3_622000.htm. Wage
rate of $46.22 is based on the mean hourly wages for Medical and Health Services Managers. Wage rate of $46.11
is the weighted mean hourly wage for: Medical and Health Services Managers ($45.22 x 2.6 hours = $117.57),
Lawyers ($62.95 x .5 hours = $31.48), Chief Executives ($89.16 x .5 hours = $44.58), and Database
Administrators ($32.30 x 2 hours = $64.60) [Weighted mean ($117.57 + 31.48 + 44.58 + 64.60)/5.6 hours =
$258.23/5.6 hours = $46.11/hour].
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
Exhibit 3 shows the estimated annualized cost to the government for
developing, maintaining, and managing the database and analyzing the
data and producing reports. The cost is estimated to be $250,000
annually.
Exhibit 3--Estimated Annualized Cost
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Annualized
Cost component cost
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Database Development and Maintenance.................... $50,000
Data Submission......................................... 75,000
Data Analysis & Reports................................. 125,000
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Total............................................... 250,000
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited Paperwork Reduction Act
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
AHRQ health care research, quality improvement and 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: August 26, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E9-21079 Filed 9-1-09; 8:45 am]
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