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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
facilities
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
burden
Medical Records Extraction .............................................................................
NH Provider Pre-Implementation Questionnaire .............................................
NH Provider Post-Implementation Questionnaire ............................................
ED Physician Post-implementation Questionnaire ..........................................
Nurse Pre/Post Implementation Questionnaire ...............................................
NH Leadership Post-Implementation Questionnaire .......................................
2
2
3
1
5
3
4
3
6
8
10
1
$31.99
83.59
83.59
83.59
31.99
51.45
$128
251
502
669
320
511
Total ..........................................................................................................
14
32
n/a
1,921
* Based upon the mean of the average wages, National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
Labor Statistics. May 2009. Hourly mean wage for registered nurse ($31.99), physician ($83.59), and NH administrator ($51.45).
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
research. The total budget for this two
year study is $458,812.
Exhibit 3 shows the total and
annualized cost for conducting this
EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED COST
Cost component
Total
Annualized
cost
Project Administration ..............................................................................................................................................
Initial Antibiogram Development and Implementation .............................................................................................
Expansion of Antibiogram Development and Implementation ................................................................................
Toolkit—Development and Refinement ...................................................................................................................
Evaluation ................................................................................................................................................................
Final Report and Dissemination ..............................................................................................................................
$60, 511
47,618
36,948
92,688
153,978
67,071
$30,256
23,809
18,474
46,344
76,989
33,536
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
458,812
229,406
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 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
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.
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Dated: March 15, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Meeting for Software Developers on
the Technical Specifications for
Common Formats for Patient Safety
Data Collection and Event Reporting
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
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
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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. 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. In order to support the Common
Formats, AHRQ has provided technical
specifications to promote
standardization by ensuring that data
collected by PSOs and other entities are
clinically and electronically
comparable. More information on the
Common Formats, including the
technical specifications, can be obtained
through AHRQ’s PSO Web site: https://
www.PSO.AHRQ.GOV/.
The purpose of this notice is to
announce a meeting to discuss the
technical specifications, including the
Hospital Common Formats technical
specifications and the Skilled Nursing
Facility Common Formats. This meeting
is designed as an interactive forum
where PSOs and software developers
can provide input on these technical
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specifications for the Common Formats.
AHRQ especially requests input from
those entities which have used AHRQ’s
technical specifications and
implemented, or plan to implement, the
formats electronically.
DATES: The meeting will be held from 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on May 11, 2011.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville
Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, MD 20852.
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.
If sign language interpretation or other
reasonable accommodation for a
disability is needed, please contact the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Office of Equal Employment
Opportunity and Disability Management
at (301) 827–4840, no later than April
28, 2011.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
The Patient Safety Act and Patient
Safety Rule establish a framework by
which doctors, hospitals, skilled
nursing facilities, 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
underlying causal factors of patient
safety problems. Both the Patient Safety
Act and Patient Safety Rule, including
any relevant guidance, can be accessed
electronically at: https://
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www.PSO.AHRQ.GOV/REGULATIONS/
REGULATIONS.htm.
In order to facilitate standardized data
collection, AHRQ develops and
maintains the Common Formats to
improve the safety and quality of
healthcare delivery. In August 2008,
AHRQ issued the initial release of the
formats, Version 0.1 Beta, developed for
acute care hospitals. The second release
of the Common Formats, Version 1.0,
was announced in the Federal Register
on September 2, 2009: 74 FR 45457–
45458. This release was later replaced
by Version 1.1, as announced in the
Federal Register on March 31, 2010: 75
FR 16140–16142. Version 1.1 includes
updated event descriptions, forms, and
technical specifications for software
developers. As an update to this release,
AHRQ developed the beta version of an
event-specific format—Device or
Supply, including Health Information
Technology—to capture information
about patient safety events that are
related to health information
technology. This update was announced
in the Federal Register on October 22,
2010: 75 FR 65359–65360. Most
recently, AHRQ released the beta
version of the Skilled Nursing Facilities
format for reporting of patient safety
events in skilled nursing facilities as
announced in the Federal Register on
March 7, 2011: 76 FR 12358–12359.
This meeting will focus on discussion
of the technical specifications, which
provide direction to software developers
that plan to implement the Common
Formats electronically. The technical
specifications are a critical component
that allow for the aggregation of patient
safety event data by standardizing the
patient safety event information
collected and specifying standard rules
for data collection, as well as providing
guidance for how and when to create
data elements, their valid values, and
conditional and go-to logic for the data
elements. In addition to standardizing
the information collected, they specify
the data submission file format.
The technical specifications consist of
the following:
Æ Data dictionary—defines data
elements and their attributes (data
element name, answer values, field
length, guide for use, etc.) included in
Common Formats;
Æ Clinical document architecture
(CDA) implementation guide—provides
instructions for developing a Health
Level Seven (HL7) CDA Extensible
Markup Language (XML) file to transmit
the Common Formats Patient Safety
data from the PSO to the PPC using the
Common Formats;
Æ Validation rules and errors
document-specifies and defines the
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validation rules that will be applied to
the Common Formats data elements
submitted to the PPC;
Æ Common Formats flow charts—
diagrams the valid paths to complete
generic and event specific formats (a
complete event report);
Æ Local specifications—provides
specifications for processing, linking
and reporting on events and details
specifications for reports; and
Æ Metadata registry—includes
descriptive facts about information
contained in the data dictionary to
illustrate how such data corresponds
with similar data elements used by
other Federal agencies and standards
development organizations [e.g., HL–7,
International Standards Organization
(ISO)].
Agenda, Registration and Other
Information About the Meeting
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, the
meeting will convene at 10 a.m. with an
overview of the Common Formats,
including the Hospital Common
Formats Version 1.1 technical
specifications, the next steps for the
Skilled Nursing Facility Common
Formats, and Common Formats version
issues. Next, AHRQ staff and contractors
who developed the formats will provide
an update on the report specifications
scheduled to be released in March 2011.
Finally, the meeting will focus on data
submission both by PSOs and by
vendors on behalf of a PSO. Throughout
the meeting there will be interactive
discussion to allow meeting participants
not only to provide input, but also to
respond to the input provided by others.
A more specific proposed agenda will
be posted before the meeting at https://
guest.cvent.com/d/wdqbt8/6X.
AHRQ requests that interested
persons register with the PSO Privacy
Protection Center (PSO PPC) on the
Internet at https://GUEST.cvent.com/d/
wdgbt8/4W to participate in the
meeting. The contact at the PSO PPC is
Rhonda Davis who can be reached by
telephone at (866) 571–7712 and by email at support@psoppc.ORG.
Additional logistical information for the
meeting is also available from the PSO
PPC. The meeting space will
accommodate approximately 144
participants. Interested persons are
encouraged to register as soon as
possible for the meeting. Non-registered
individuals will be able to attend the
meeting in person if space is available.
We invite review of the technical
specifications for Common Formats
prior to the meeting. The formats can be
accessed through AHRQ’s PSO Web site
at https://www.pso.AHRQ.GOV/formats/
commonfmt.htm. AHRQ is committed to
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continuing refinement of the Common
Formats. AHRQ welcomes questions
from prospective meeting participants
and interested individuals on the
technical specifications for Common
Formats. These questions should be emailed to support@psoppc.ORG no later
than April 27, 2011. AHRQ will use the
input received at this meeting as we
continue to update and refine the
Common Formats.
A summary of the meeting will be
provided upon request. If you are
unable to participate in the meeting and
would like a copy of the summary,
please send an e-mail to
support@psoppc.ORG and it will be sent
as soon as it is available after the
meeting.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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Prevention
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Worker Health (ABRWH or Advisory
Board), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH)
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the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
announces the following meeting for the
aforementioned committee:
Time and Date: 11 a.m.–2 p.m., April 20,
2011.
Place: Audio Conference Call via FTS
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number is 1–866–659–0537 and the pass
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Status: Open to the public, but without a
public comment period.
Background: The Advisory Board was
established under the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program
Act of 2000 to advise the President on a
variety of policy and technical functions
required to implement and effectively
manage the new compensation program. Key
functions of the Advisory Board include
providing advice on the development of
probability of causation guidelines, which
have been promulgated by the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) as a final
rule; advice on methods of dose
reconstruction, which have also been
promulgated by HHS as a final rule; advice
on the scientific validity and quality of dose
estimation and reconstruction efforts being
performed for purposes of the compensation
program; and advice on petitions to add
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In December 2000, the President delegated
responsibility for funding, staffing, and
operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which
subsequently delegated this authority to the
CDC. NIOSH implements this responsibility
for CDC. The charter was issued on August
3, 2001, renewed at appropriate intervals,
most recently, August 3, 2009, and will
expire on August 3, 2011.
Purpose: This Advisory Board is charged
with (a) Providing advice to the Secretary,
HHS, on the development of guidelines
under Executive Order 13179; (b) providing
advice to the Secretary, HHS, on the
scientific validity and quality of dose
reconstruction efforts performed for this
program; and (c) upon request by the
Secretary, HHS, advising the Secretary on
whether there is a class of employees at any
Department of Energy facility who were
exposed to radiation but for whom it is not
feasible to estimate their radiation dose, and
on whether there is reasonable likelihood
that such radiation doses may have
endangered the health of members of this
class.
Matters to be Discussed: The agenda for the
conference call includes: NIOSH 10-Year
Review of its Division of Compensation
Analysis and Support (DCAS) Program;
Subcommittee and Work Group Updates;
DCAS SEC Petition Evaluations Update for
the May 2011 Advisory Board Meeting; and
Board Correspondence.
The agenda is subject to change as
priorities dictate.
Because there is not a public comment
period, written comments may be submitted.
Any written comments received will be
included in the official record of the meeting
and should be submitted to the contact
person below in advance of the meeting.
Contact Person for More Information:
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Secretary, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd.,
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HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Subcommittee for Dose
Reconstruction Reviews (SDRR),
Advisory Board on Radiation and
Worker Health (ABRWH or the
Advisory Board), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH)
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
announces the following meeting for the
aforementioned subcommittee:
Time and Date: 9 a.m.–5 p.m., April 18,
2011.
Place: Cincinnati Airport Marriott, 2395
Progress Drive, Hebron, Kentucky 41018.
Telephone (859) 334–4611, Fax (859) 334–
4619.
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public comment period. To access by
conference call dial the following
information 1 (866) 659–0537, Participant
Pass Code 9933701.
Background: The Advisory Board was
established under the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program
Act of 2000 to advise the President on a
variety of policy and technical functions
required to implement and effectively
manage the new compensation program. Key
functions of the Advisory Board include
providing advice on the development of
probability of causation guidelines that have
been promulgated by the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) as a final
rule; advice on methods of dose
reconstruction which have also been
promulgated by HHS as a final rule; advice
on the scientific validity and quality of dose
estimation and reconstruction efforts being
performed for purposes of the compensation
program; and advice on petitions to add
classes of workers to the Special Exposure
Cohort (SEC).
In December 2000, the President delegated
responsibility for funding, staffing, and
operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which
subsequently delegated this authority to CDC.
NIOSH implements this responsibility for
CDC. The charter was issued on August 3,
2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, and
will expire on August 3, 2011.
Purpose: The Advisory Board is charged
with (a) Providing advice to the Secretary,
HHS, on the development of guidelines
under Executive Order 13179; (b) providing
advice to the Secretary, HHS, on the
scientific validity and quality of dose
reconstruction efforts performed for this
program; and (c) upon request by the
Secretary, HHS, advise the Secretary on
whether there is a class of employees at any
Department of Energy facility who were
exposed to radiation but for whom it is not
feasible to estimate their radiation dose, and
on whether there is reasonable likelihood
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Meeting for Software Developers on the Technical Specifications
for Common Formats for Patient Safety Data Collection and Event
Reporting
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: 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. 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. In order to support the Common Formats, AHRQ has
provided technical specifications to promote standardization by
ensuring that data collected by PSOs and other entities are clinically
and electronically comparable. More information on the Common Formats,
including the technical specifications, can be obtained through AHRQ's
PSO Web site: https://www.PSO.AHRQ.GOV/.
The purpose of this notice is to announce a meeting to discuss the
technical specifications, including the Hospital Common Formats
technical specifications and the Skilled Nursing Facility Common
Formats. This meeting is designed as an interactive forum where PSOs
and software developers can provide input on these technical
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specifications for the Common Formats. AHRQ especially requests input
from those entities which have used AHRQ's technical specifications and
implemented, or plan to implement, the formats electronically.
DATES: The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on May 11,
2011.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Washington DC/
Rockville Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.
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.
If sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodation
for a disability is needed, please contact the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and
Disability Management at (301) 827-4840, no later than April 28, 2011.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Patient Safety Act and Patient Safety Rule establish a
framework by which doctors, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, 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 underlying causal factors of
patient safety problems. Both the Patient Safety Act and Patient Safety
Rule, including any relevant guidance, can be accessed electronically
at: https://www.PSO.AHRQ.GOV/REGULATIONS/REGULATIONS.htm.
In order to facilitate standardized data collection, AHRQ develops
and maintains the Common Formats to improve the safety and quality of
healthcare delivery. In August 2008, AHRQ issued the initial release of
the formats, Version 0.1 Beta, developed for acute care hospitals. The
second release of the Common Formats, Version 1.0, was announced in the
Federal Register on September 2, 2009: 74 FR 45457-45458. This release
was later replaced by Version 1.1, as announced in the Federal Register
on March 31, 2010: 75 FR 16140-16142. Version 1.1 includes updated
event descriptions, forms, and technical specifications for software
developers. As an update to this release, AHRQ developed the beta
version of an event-specific format--Device or Supply, including Health
Information Technology--to capture information about patient safety
events that are related to health information technology. This update
was announced in the Federal Register on October 22, 2010: 75 FR 65359-
65360. Most recently, AHRQ released the beta version of the Skilled
Nursing Facilities format for reporting of patient safety events in
skilled nursing facilities as announced in the Federal Register on
March 7, 2011: 76 FR 12358-12359.
This meeting will focus on discussion of the technical
specifications, which provide direction to software developers that
plan to implement the Common Formats electronically. The technical
specifications are a critical component that allow for the aggregation
of patient safety event data by standardizing the patient safety event
information collected and specifying standard rules for data
collection, as well as providing guidance for how and when to create
data elements, their valid values, and conditional and go-to logic for
the data elements. In addition to standardizing the information
collected, they specify the data submission file format.
The technical specifications consist of the following:
[cir] Data dictionary--defines data elements and their attributes
(data element name, answer values, field length, guide for use, etc.)
included in Common Formats;
[cir] Clinical document architecture (CDA) implementation guide--
provides instructions for developing a Health Level Seven (HL7) CDA
Extensible Markup Language (XML) file to transmit the Common Formats
Patient Safety data from the PSO to the PPC using the Common Formats;
[cir] Validation rules and errors document-specifies and defines
the validation rules that will be applied to the Common Formats data
elements submitted to the PPC;
[cir] Common Formats flow charts--diagrams the valid paths to
complete generic and event specific formats (a complete event report);
[cir] Local specifications--provides specifications for processing,
linking and reporting on events and details specifications for reports;
and
[cir] Metadata registry--includes descriptive facts about
information contained in the data dictionary to illustrate how such
data corresponds with similar data elements used by other Federal
agencies and standards development organizations [e.g., HL-7,
International Standards Organization (ISO)].
Agenda, Registration and Other Information About the Meeting
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, the meeting will convene at 10 a.m.
with an overview of the Common Formats, including the Hospital Common
Formats Version 1.1 technical specifications, the next steps for the
Skilled Nursing Facility Common Formats, and Common Formats version
issues. Next, AHRQ staff and contractors who developed the formats will
provide an update on the report specifications scheduled to be released
in March 2011. Finally, the meeting will focus on data submission both
by PSOs and by vendors on behalf of a PSO. Throughout the meeting there
will be interactive discussion to allow meeting participants not only
to provide input, but also to respond to the input provided by others.
A more specific proposed agenda will be posted before the meeting at
https://guest.cvent.com/d/wdqbt8/6X.
AHRQ requests that interested persons register with the PSO Privacy
Protection Center (PSO PPC) on the Internet at https://GUEST.cvent.com/d/wdgbt8/4W to participate in the meeting. The contact at the PSO PPC
is Rhonda Davis who can be reached by telephone at (866) 571-7712 and
by e-mail at support@psoppc.ORG. Additional logistical information for
the meeting is also available from the PSO PPC. The meeting space will
accommodate approximately 144 participants. Interested persons are
encouraged to register as soon as possible for the meeting. Non-
registered individuals will be able to attend the meeting in person if
space is available.
We invite review of the technical specifications for Common Formats
prior to the meeting. The formats can be accessed through AHRQ's PSO
Web site at https://www.pso.AHRQ.GOV/formats/commonfmt.htm. AHRQ is
committed to
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continuing refinement of the Common Formats. AHRQ welcomes questions
from prospective meeting participants and interested individuals on the
technical specifications for Common Formats. These questions should be
e-mailed to support@psoppc.ORG no later than April 27, 2011. AHRQ will
use the input received at this meeting as we continue to update and
refine the Common Formats.
A summary of the meeting will be provided upon request. If you are
unable to participate in the meeting and would like a copy of the
summary, please send an e-mail to support@psoppc.ORG and it will be
sent as soon as it is available after the meeting.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-6852 Filed 3-24-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4160-90-M
