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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; A Generic
Submission for Formative Research,
Pretesting, and Customer Satisfaction
of NCI’s Communication and
Education Resources (NCI)
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of
Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National
Cancer Institute (NCI), the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for review and
approval of the information collection
listed below. This proposed information
collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on October 28,
2009 (74 FR 55558) and allowed 60 days
for public comment. One comment in
regards to NCI’s communication on
October 28, 2009, and we responded on
October 28, 2009, ‘‘We received your
comment. We will take your comments
into consideration’’. The purpose of this
notice is to allow an additional 30 days
for public comment. The National
Institutes of Health may not conduct or
sponsor, and the respondent is not
required to respond to, an information
collection that has been extended,
revised, or implemented on or after
October 1, 1995, unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Proposed Collection: Title: A Generic
Submission for Formative Research,
Pretesting, and Customer Satisfaction of
NCI’s Communication and Education
Resources (NCI). Type of Information
Collection Request: REVISION. Need
and Use of Information Collection: In
order to carry out NCI’s legislative
mandate to educate and disseminate
information about cancer prevention,
detection, diagnosis, and treatment to a
wide variety of audiences and
organizations (e.g., cancer patients, their
families, the general public, health
providers, the media, voluntary groups,
scientific and medical organizations), it
is beneficial for NCI, through its Office
of Communications and Education
(OCE), to pretest NCI communications
strategies, concepts, and messages while
they are under development. This
pretesting, or formative evaluation,
helps ensure that the messages,
communication materials, and
information services created by NCI
have the greatest capacity of being
received, understood, and accepted by
their target audiences. Since NCI’s OCE
also is responsible for the design,
implementation, and evaluation of
education programs over the entire
cancer continuum and management of
NCI initiatives that address specific
challenges in cancer research and
treatment, it is also necessary to ensure
that customers are satisfied with
programs. This customer satisfaction
research helps ensure the relevance,
utility, and appropriateness of the many
educational programs and products that
OCE and NCI produce. OCE will use a
variety of qualitative (focus groups,
interviews) and quantitative (paper,
phone, in-person, and web surveys)
methodologies to conduct this formative
and customer satisfaction research,
allowing NCI to: (1) Understand
characteristics (attitudes, beliefs, and
behaviors) of the intended target
audience and use this information in the
development of effective
communication tools and strategies; (2)
use a feedback loop to help refine,
revise, and enhance messages, materials,
products, and programs—ensuring that
they have the greatest relevance, utility,
appropriateness, and impact for/to
target audiences; and (3) expend limited
program resource dollars wisely and
effectively. This package represents the
combination of a currently approved
generic submission, ‘‘Pretesting of NCI’s
Office of Communications Messages,’’
(OMB No. 0925–0046) and a previously
approved generic submission,
‘‘Customer Satisfaction with
Educational Programs and Products of
the NCI’’ (OMB No. 0925–0526).
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Businesses or other for
profit; Not-for-profit institutions;
Federal Government; State, local, or
tribal Government. Type of
Respondents: Adult cancer patients;
members of the public; health care
professionals; organizational
representatives. The table below
outlines the estimated burden hours
required for a three-year approval of this
generic submission. There are no
Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or
Maintenance Costs to report.
TABLE 1—ESTIMATES FOR BURDEN HOURS FOR THREE YEARS
[Generic Study]
Total number
of respondents
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Survey method
Frequency of
response
Minutes/hour
per response
Total burden
hours
Focus Groups ..................................................................................................
Individual In-Depth Interviews (Typically longer than 15 minutes, includes
Web site usability testing) ............................................................................
Brief Interviews (Typically less than 5 minutes) ..............................................
Surveys (Web, phone, in-person, paper-and-pencil) .......................................
900
1
90/60 (1.5)
1,350.00
600
19,000
12,500
1
1
1
45/60 (.75)
10/60 (.17)
10/60 (.17)
450.00
3,166.67
2,083.33
Totals ........................................................................................................
33,000
........................
........................
7,050.00
Request for Comments: Written
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information is necessary for the proper
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performance of the function of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the item(s) contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated
public burden and associated response
time, should be directed to the
Attention: NIH Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget at
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by
fax to 202–395–6974. To request more
information on the proposed project or
to obtain a copy of the data collection
plans and instruments, contact Nina
Goodman, Senior Public Health
Advisor, Office of Communications and
Education (OCE), NCI, NIH, 6116
Executive Blvd., Suite 400, Rockville,
MD 20892, call non-toll-free number
301–435–7789 or e-mail your request,
including your address to:
goodmann@mail.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments
regarding this information collection are
best assured of having their full effect if
received within 30 days of the date of
this publication.
Dated: December 21, 2009.
Kristine Miller,
NCI Project Clearance Liaison, National
Institutes of Health.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
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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
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Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project:
‘‘Development and Evaluation of
AHRQ’s Quality Indicators
Improvement Toolkit.’’ In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44
U.S.C. 3501–3520, AHRQ invites the
public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by March 1, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@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.
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
Development and Evaluation of
AHRQ’s Quality Indicators
Improvement Toolkit.
An important part of AHRQ’s mission
is to disseminate information and tools
that can support improvement in quality
and safety in the U.S. health care
community. See 42 U.S.C. 299(b)(1)(F);
299a(a)(1) and (2). This proposed
information collection supports that
part of AHRQ’s mission by developing
and evaluating a toolkit that will enable
hospitals to effectively use AHRQs
Quality Indicators (QIs).
AHRQ has developed sets of QIs that
can be used by the Agency and others
to document quality and safety
conditions at U.S. hospitals. Two sets of
QIs will be used in this proposed
toolkit: the Inpatient Quality Indicators
(IQIs) and the Patient Safety Indicators
(PSIs). The IQIs contain measures of
volume, mortality, and utilization for
common medical conditions and major
surgical procedures. The PSIs are a set
of measures to screen for potentially
preventable adverse events that patients
may experience during hospitalization.
These QIs have been previously
developed and evaluated by AHRQ, and
are in use at a number of hospitals
throughout the country. The QIs and
supportive documentation on how to
work with them are posted on AHRQ’s
Web site at
www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov. Many
of the QIs have been endorsed by the
National Quality Forum through its
consensus review process.
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Values for each QI can be estimated
for a given hospital by applying
computations in SAS programs
developed by AHRQ to the hospital’s
pre-existing inpatient encounter data.
To identify potential areas for
improving the quality and safety of the
care that a hospital provides, the
hospital can use these data to examine
its current performance on each QI
measure, changes in its performance
over time, and how its performance
compares to that of other hospitals.
However, despite the availability of the
QIs as tools to help hospitals assess
their performance, many U.S. hospitals
have limited experience with the use of
such measurement tools, or in using
quality improvement methods to
improve their performance as assessed
by these measures.
An alpha version of the Quality
Indicators Improvement Toolkit will be
developed, which then will be field
tested by six hospitals. During the field
test, the proposed evaluation will assess
the usability of the Toolkit for hospitals,
and it will examine their experiences in
implementing interventions to improve
their performance on the AHRQ QIs, as
well as effects on trends in the
hospitals’ AHRQ QI values. Using
results from the evaluation, the alpha
Toolkit will be revised to yield a final
Toolkit that will be effective in
supporting hospitals’ quality
improvement efforts.
The development and evaluation of
the Quality Indicators Improvement
Toolkit will be conducted by AHRQ’s
contractor, the RAND Corporation,
under contract number
HHSA2902006000 171. RAND has
subcontracted with the University
HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) to
partner in the development of the
Toolkit and field testing of it with
hospitals as they use the Toolkit in
carrying out initiatives designed to
improve performance on the QIs.
Method of Collection
Case study research methods will be
used for this qualitative study. The
following four data collection
instruments will be used in the
evaluation: (1) Pre/post-test interview
protocol—consisting of both open and
closed ended questions will be
administered prior to implementation of
the Toolkit and again post
implementation. The purpose of this
data collection is to obtain data on the
steps the hospitals took to implement
actions to improve performance on the
QIs; their plans for making process
changes; and their experiences in
achieving changes and perceptions
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; A Generic Submission
for Formative Research, Pretesting, and Customer Satisfaction of NCI's
Communication and Education Resources (NCI)
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the
information collection listed below. This proposed information
collection was previously published in the Federal Register on October
28, 2009 (74 FR 55558) and allowed 60 days for public comment. One
comment in regards to NCI's communication on October 28, 2009, and we
responded on October 28, 2009, ``We received your comment. We will take
your comments into consideration''. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes
of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not
required to respond to, an information collection that has been
extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless
it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Proposed Collection: Title: A Generic Submission for Formative
Research, Pretesting, and Customer Satisfaction of NCI's Communication
and Education Resources (NCI). Type of Information Collection Request:
REVISION. Need and Use of Information Collection: In order to carry out
NCI's legislative mandate to educate and disseminate information about
cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment to a wide
variety of audiences and organizations (e.g., cancer patients, their
families, the general public, health providers, the media, voluntary
groups, scientific and medical organizations), it is beneficial for
NCI, through its Office of Communications and Education (OCE), to
pretest NCI communications strategies, concepts, and messages while
they are under development. This pretesting, or formative evaluation,
helps ensure that the messages, communication materials, and
information services created by NCI have the greatest capacity of being
received, understood, and accepted by their target audiences. Since
NCI's OCE also is responsible for the design, implementation, and
evaluation of education programs over the entire cancer continuum and
management of NCI initiatives that address specific challenges in
cancer research and treatment, it is also necessary to ensure that
customers are satisfied with programs. This customer satisfaction
research helps ensure the relevance, utility, and appropriateness of
the many educational programs and products that OCE and NCI produce.
OCE will use a variety of qualitative (focus groups, interviews) and
quantitative (paper, phone, in-person, and web surveys) methodologies
to conduct this formative and customer satisfaction research, allowing
NCI to: (1) Understand characteristics (attitudes, beliefs, and
behaviors) of the intended target audience and use this information in
the development of effective communication tools and strategies; (2)
use a feedback loop to help refine, revise, and enhance messages,
materials, products, and programs--ensuring that they have the greatest
relevance, utility, appropriateness, and impact for/to target
audiences; and (3) expend limited program resource dollars wisely and
effectively. This package represents the combination of a currently
approved generic submission, ``Pretesting of NCI's Office of
Communications Messages,'' (OMB No. 0925-0046) and a previously
approved generic submission, ``Customer Satisfaction with Educational
Programs and Products of the NCI'' (OMB No. 0925-0526). Frequency of
Response: On occasion. Affected Public: Individuals or households;
Businesses or other for profit; Not-for-profit institutions; Federal
Government; State, local, or tribal Government. Type of Respondents:
Adult cancer patients; members of the public; health care
professionals; organizational representatives. The table below outlines
the estimated burden hours required for a three-year approval of this
generic submission. There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or
Maintenance Costs to report.
Table 1--Estimates for Burden Hours For Three Years
[Generic Study]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total number Frequency of Minutes/hour Total burden
Survey method of respondents response per response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Focus Groups.................................... 900 1 90/60 (1.5) 1,350.00
Individual In-Depth Interviews (Typically longer 600 1 45/60 (.75) 450.00
than 15 minutes, includes Web site usability
testing).......................................
Brief Interviews (Typically less than 5 minutes) 19,000 1 10/60 (.17) 3,166.67
Surveys (Web, phone, in-person, paper-and- 12,500 1 10/60 (.17) 2,083.33
pencil)........................................
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Totals...................................... 33,000 .............. .............. 7,050.00
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Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper
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performance of the function of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (2) The accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including the
use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be
directed to the Attention: NIH Desk Officer, Office of Management and
Budget at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974. To
request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and instruments, contact Nina Goodman, Senior
Public Health Advisor, Office of Communications and Education (OCE),
NCI, NIH, 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20892, call
non-toll-free number 301-435-7789 or e-mail your request, including
your address to: goodmann@mail.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days
of the date of this publication.
Dated: December 21, 2009.
Kristine Miller,
NCI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. E9-31071 Filed 12-30-09; 8:45 am]
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