Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 2682-2683 [2013-00523]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 9 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2682-2683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00523]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

    In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed 
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration (SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of 
proposed projects. To request more information on the proposed projects 
or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the 
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of 
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions 
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection 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 on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Evaluation of Emergency Department Crisis Center 
Follow-up--New

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) will conduct an 
evaluation to assess the impact of crisis center follow-up with 
patients admitted to emergency departments following a suicide attempt.
    The overarching purpose of the proposed Evaluation of Emergency 
Department Crisis Center Follow-up--New is to examine the impact of 
crisis

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center follow-up with patients admitted to emergency departments 
following a suicide attempt on subsequent emergency department 
readmissions. In total this evaluation effort includes two data 
collection activities.
    Clearance is being requested to abstract patient hospital data and 
companion crisis center data to examine the impact of crisis center 
follow-up on readmissions to the emergency department for suicidal 
behavior. The data collected through this project will ultimately help 
SAMHSA to understand and direct crisis center follow-up lifesaving 
initiatives. The data collection activities are described below.
    Two funded crisis centers, working in collaboration with two 
hospital emergency departments, will provide follow-up services to 
patients seen in the emergency department following a suicide attempt. 
Patient data will be collected for patients admitted for a suicide 
attempt in the two years prior to collaboration between the emergency 
department and crisis center and for patients admitted for a suicide 
attempt for the 2-year period after collaboration.
    (1) The Hospital Data Abstraction Form will be utilized to collect 
systematic patient data for patients seen in one of the two 
participating hospital emergency departments. Information to be 
abstracted from patient data include: Demographic data, historical 
data, and subsequent suicidal behavioral and admission data. Data will 
be de-identified. Hospital staff will review patient data for 
qualifying (i.e., admission to the emergency department for suicide 
attempt) records. Records to be reviewed will include emergency 
department admissions for the two years prior to crisis center and 
hospital emergency department collaboration and for two years following 
collaboration. It is expected that a total of 2,000 records will be 
abstracted by hospital staff and provided to the evaluation team.
    (2) The Crisis Center Data Abstraction Form will be utilized to 
collect systematic crisis center data for patient records for whom 
hospital data were collected. Data will be de-identified and will only 
contain a patient identification number to match to the patient ID 
provided through hospital records.
    The estimated response burden to collect this information is as 
follows annualized over the requested 3-year clearance period is 
presented below:

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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number     Burden per
           Instrument               respondents     respondent*    of responses      response     Annual burden*
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Hospital Data Abstraction Form..               2             334             667             .04              27
Crisis Center Data Abstraction                 2             167             333             .04              13
 Form...........................
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    Total.......................               4  ..............  ..............  ..............              40
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* Rounded to the nearest whole number.

Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room 2-
1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 and email her a copy 
at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Summer King,
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-00523 Filed 1-11-13; 8:45 am]
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