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Office of the National Coordinator for
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Judith Sparrow,
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Information Technology.
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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 for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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:
‘‘Voluntary Customer Survey Generic
Clearance for the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality.’’ 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 28, 2011.
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.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Voluntary Customer Survey Generic
Clearance for the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality Executive Order
12862 directs agencies that ‘‘provide
significant services directly to the
public’’ to ‘‘survey customers to
determine the kind and quality of
services they want and their level of
satisfaction with existing services.’’ This
is a request for the Office of
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Management and Budget (OMB) to reapprove for an additional 3 years, under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
the generic clearance for the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) to survey the users of AHRQ’s
work products and services, OMB
control number 0935–0106.
Customer surveys will be undertaken
by AHRQ to assess its work products
and services provided to its customers,
to identify problem areas, and to
determine how they can be improved.
Surveys conducted under this generic
clearance are not required by regulation
and will not be used by AHRQ to
regulate or sanction its customers.
Surveys will be entirely voluntary, and
information provided by respondents
will be combined and summarized so
that no individually identifiable
information will be released. Proposed
information collections submitted under
this generic clearance will be reviewed
and acted upon by OMB within 14 days
of submission to OMB.
In accordance with OMB guidelines
for generic clearances for voluntary
customer surveys and Executive Order
12862, AHRQ: (1) Has established an
independent review process to assure
the development, implementation, and
analysis of high quality customer
surveys within AHRQ; (2) will provide
periodic progress reports on the conduct
of surveys under the generic approval,
summarizing the actual burden; (3) will
provide OMB with copies of the survey
instruments for inclusion in the docket;
and, (4) will notify OMB of any
significant changes in proposed survey
instruments.
Method of Collection
The information collected through
focus groups and voluntary customer
surveys will be used by AHRQ to
identify strengths and weaknesses in
products and services to make
improvements that are practical and
feasible. Information from these
customer surveys will be used to plan
and redirect resources and efforts to
improve or maintain a high quality of
service to the lay and health
professional public.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated total
burden hours for the respondents. Mail
surveys are estimated to average 15
minutes, telephone surveys 40 minutes,
web-based surveys 10 minutes, focus
groups two hours, and in-person
interviews are estimated to average 50
minutes. Mail surveys may also be sent
to respondents via email, and may
include a telephone non-response
follow-up.
Telephone non-response follow-up for
mailed surveys does not count as a
telephone survey. The total burden
hours for the 3 years of the clearance is
estimated to be 10,150 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost
burden for the respondents. The total
cost burden for the 3 years of the
clearance is estimated to be $340,127.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS OVER 3 YEARS
Number of
respondents
Type of information collection
Number of
responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Mail/e-mail* ......................................................................................................
Telephone ........................................................................................................
Web-based .......................................................................................................
Focus Groups ..................................................................................................
In-person ..........................................................................................................
15,000
600
15,000
1,500
600
1
1
1
1
1
15/60
40/60
10/60
2.0
50/60
3,750
400
2,500
3,000
500
Total ..........................................................................................................
32,700
na
na
10,150
* May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED COST BURDEN OVER 3 YEARS
Number of
respondents
Type of information collection
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate*
Total cost
burden
Mail/e-mail ........................................................................................................
Telephone ........................................................................................................
Web-based .......................................................................................................
Focus Groups ..................................................................................................
In-person ..........................................................................................................
15,000
600
15,000
1,500
600
3,750
400
2,500
3,000
500
$33.51
33.51
33.51
33.51
33.51
$125,663
13,404
83,775
100,530
16,755
Total ..........................................................................................................
32,700
10,150
na
340,127
* Based upon the average wages for 29–000 (Healthcare Practitioner and Technical Occupations), ‘‘National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2009,’’ U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
Information collections conducted
under this generic clearance will in
some cases be carried out under
contract. Assuming the contract cost per
survey are $50,000–$100,000, and for
each focus group are $20,000, total
contract costs could run $ 720,000 per
year.
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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 healthcare research and
healthcare information dissemination
functions, including whether the
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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
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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: January 3, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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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 for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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: ‘‘The
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ) Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator
Interview and Innovator Email
Submission Guidelines.’’ In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44
U.S.C. 3501–3520, AHRQ invites the
public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on November 2nd, 2010 and
allowed 60 days for public comment. No
comments were received. The purpose
of this notice is to allow an additional
30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 24, 2011.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
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SUMMARY:
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e-mail at
doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator
Interview and Innovator Email
Submission Guidelines
This request for Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) review is for renewal
of the existing collection that is
currently approved under OMB Control
No. 0935–0147, AHRQ Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator
Interview and AHRQ Health Care
Innovations Exchange Innovator Email
Submission Guidelines, which expires
on March 31, 2011.
The Health Care Innovations
Exchange provides a national-level
information hub to foster the
implementation and adaptation of
innovative strategies that improve
health care quality and reduce
disparities in the care received by
different populations. The Innovations
Exchange’s target audiences, broadly
defined, are current and potential
change agents in the U.S. health care
system, including clinicians (e.g.,
physicians, nurses, and other
providers), health system
administrators, health plan managers,
health service purchasers, regulators,
and policymakers from relevant Federal
and state agencies.
To develop the target of 150 profiles
per year, a purposively selected group of
approximately 167 health care
innovations will be selected annually
for potential consideration. These 167
innovations will be selected to ensure
that innovations included in the
Innovations Exchange cover a broad
range of health care settings, care
processes, priority populations, and
clinical conditions.
The goals of the Health Care
Innovations Exchange are to:
(1) Identify health care service
delivery innovations and provide a
national level repository of searchable
innovations and QualityTools that
enables health care decisionmakers to
quickly identify ideas and tools that
meet their needs. These innovations
come from many care settings including
inpatient facilities, outpatient facilities,
long term care organizations, health
plans and community care settings.
They also represent many patient
populations, disease conditions, and
processes of care such as preventive,
acute, and chronic care;
(2) Foster the implementation and
adoption of health care service delivery
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innovations that improve health care
quality and reduce disparities in the
care received by different populations.
This data collection is being
conducted by AHRQ through its
contractor, Westat, pursuant to AHRQ’s
statutory authority to conduct and
support research on healthcare and on
systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities (1) with respect to
the quality, effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of healthcare
services, 42 U.S.C. 299a(a), and (2) to
promote innovation in evidence-based
health care practices and technologies.
42 U.S.C. 299b–5.
Method of Collection
To achieve the first goal of the
Innovations Exchange the following
data collections will be implemented:
(1) E-mail submission—Based on
experience during the current approval
period, approximately 10% of the 167
health care innovations considered for
inclusion annually, and their associated
innovators, will submit their
innovations via email to the Innovations
Exchange without prior contact (about
17 annually). Innovators who submit
their innovations for possible
publication through the email
submission guidelines process will be
considered as will innovations
identified by project staff through an
array of sources that include: Published
literature, conference proceedings, news
items, list servs, Federal agencies and
other government programs and
resources, health care foundations, and
health care associations.
(2) Health care innovator interview—
To collect and verify the information
required for the innovation profiles,
health care innovators will be
interviewed by telephone about the
following aspects of their innovation:
Health care problem addressed, impetus
for the innovation, goals of the
innovation, description of the
innovation, sources of funding,
evaluation results for the innovation,
setting for the innovation, history of
planning and implementation for the
innovation, and lessons learned
concerning the implementation of the
innovation. Interviews will be
conducted with innovators identified by
project staff and those identified
through email submission.
(3) Annual follow-up reviews—After
the innovation profile is published, on
a yearly basis, innovators will be
contacted by email to review and update
their profiles.
The second goal of the Innovations
Exchange is achieved by serving as a
‘‘one-stop shop’’ that provides:
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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: ``Voluntary Customer Survey Generic Clearance for the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality.'' 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 28, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by e-mail 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
Voluntary Customer Survey Generic Clearance for the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality Executive Order 12862 directs agencies
that ``provide significant services directly to the public'' to
``survey customers to determine the kind and quality of services they
want and their level of satisfaction with existing services.'' This is
a request for the Office of
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Management and Budget (OMB) to re-approve for an additional 3 years,
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the generic clearance for
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to survey the
users of AHRQ's work products and services, OMB control number 0935-
0106.
Customer surveys will be undertaken by AHRQ to assess its work
products and services provided to its customers, to identify problem
areas, and to determine how they can be improved. Surveys conducted
under this generic clearance are not required by regulation and will
not be used by AHRQ to regulate or sanction its customers. Surveys will
be entirely voluntary, and information provided by respondents will be
combined and summarized so that no individually identifiable
information will be released. Proposed information collections
submitted under this generic clearance will be reviewed and acted upon
by OMB within 14 days of submission to OMB.
In accordance with OMB guidelines for generic clearances for
voluntary customer surveys and Executive Order 12862, AHRQ: (1) Has
established an independent review process to assure the development,
implementation, and analysis of high quality customer surveys within
AHRQ; (2) will provide periodic progress reports on the conduct of
surveys under the generic approval, summarizing the actual burden; (3)
will provide OMB with copies of the survey instruments for inclusion in
the docket; and, (4) will notify OMB of any significant changes in
proposed survey instruments.
Method of Collection
The information collected through focus groups and voluntary
customer surveys will be used by AHRQ to identify strengths and
weaknesses in products and services to make improvements that are
practical and feasible. Information from these customer surveys will be
used to plan and redirect resources and efforts to improve or maintain
a high quality of service to the lay and health professional public.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated total burden hours for the
respondents. Mail surveys are estimated to average 15 minutes,
telephone surveys 40 minutes, web-based surveys 10 minutes, focus
groups two hours, and in-person interviews are estimated to average 50
minutes. Mail surveys may also be sent to respondents via email, and
may include a telephone non-response follow-up.
Telephone non-response follow-up for mailed surveys does not count
as a telephone survey. The total burden hours for the 3 years of the
clearance is estimated to be 10,150 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost burden for the respondents. The
total cost burden for the 3 years of the clearance is estimated to be
$340,127.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Burden Hours Over 3 Years
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Number of
Type of information collection Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Mail/e-mail*.................................... 15,000 1 15/60 3,750
Telephone....................................... 600 1 40/60 400
Web-based....................................... 15,000 1 10/60 2,500
Focus Groups.................................... 1,500 1 2.0 3,000
In-person....................................... 600 1 50/60 500
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 32,700 na na 10,150
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* May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Cost Burden Over 3 Years
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Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Type of information collection respondents hours wage rate* burden
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Mail/e-mail..................................... 15,000 3,750 $33.51 $125,663
Telephone....................................... 600 400 33.51 13,404
Web-based....................................... 15,000 2,500 33.51 83,775
Focus Groups.................................... 1,500 3,000 33.51 100,530
In-person....................................... 600 500 33.51 16,755
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 32,700 10,150 na 340,127
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* Based upon the average wages for 29-000 (Healthcare Practitioner and Technical Occupations), ``National
Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2009,'' U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
Information collections conducted under this generic clearance will
in some cases be carried out under contract. Assuming the contract cost
per survey are $50,000-$100,000, and for each focus group are $20,000,
total contract costs could run $ 720,000 per year.
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 healthcare research and healthcare 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
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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: January 3, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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