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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
burden
hours
Hours per
response
Pilot Test of the Emergency Department Discharge Tool (EDT)
EDT ..........................................................................................................................
One Month Patient Follow-up ..................................................................................
Three Month Patient Follow-up ...............................................................................
1,200
1,200
240
1
1
1
20/60
10/60
5/60
400
200
20
Post Pilot Test Focus Groups and Interviews
EDT Implementers Focus Group .............................................................................
Patient Focus Group ................................................................................................
Post-ED Care Providers Focus Group ....................................................................
EDT Implementer Interview .....................................................................................
Patient Interview ......................................................................................................
Post-ED Care Providers Interview ...........................................................................
16
8
8
8
8
8
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
32
16
16
8
8
8
Total ..................................................................................................................
2,696
na
na
708
Total
burden hours
Average
hourly wage
rate*
Total cost
burden hours
400
200
20
$22.01a
22.01a
22.01a
$8,804
4,402
440
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Pilot Test of the Emergency Department Discharge Tool (EDT)
EDT ..........................................................................................................................
One Month Patient Follow-up ..................................................................................
Three Month Patient Follow-up ...............................................................................
1,200
1,200
240
Post Pilot Test Focus Groups and Interviews
EDT Implementers Focus Group .............................................................................
Patient Focus Group ................................................................................................
Post-ED Care Providers Focus Group ....................................................................
EDT Implementer Interview .....................................................................................
Patient Interview ......................................................................................................
Post-ED Care Providers Interview ...........................................................................
16
8
8
8
8
8
32
16
16
8
8
8
27.42b
22.01a
45.36c
27.42b
22.01a
45.36c
877
352
726
219
176
363
Total ..................................................................................................................
2,696
708
na
16,359
*National
a—based
b—salary
Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2012, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’
on the mean wages for All Occupations (00–0000)
based upon average of: 2 nurses (29–1141), 2 case managers (29–1141), 2 social workers (21–1022), and 2 research assistants
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(19–4061)
c—salary based upon average of: 2 physicians (29–1060), 2 nurses (29–1141), 2 case managers (29–1141), 2 social workers (21–1022).
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
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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 8, 2013.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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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:
‘‘Assessing the Impact of the National
SUMMARY:
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Implementation of TeamSTEPPS Master
Training Program.’’ 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 October 28, 2013.
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
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Proposed Project
Assessing the Impact of the National
Implementation of TeamSTEPPS Master
Training Program
As part of their effort to fulfill their
mission goals, AHRQ, in collaboration
with the Department of Defense’s (DoD)
Tricare Management Activity (TMA),
developed TeamSTEPPS® (aka Team
Strategies and Tools for Enhancing
Performance and Patient Safety) to
provide an evidence-based suite of tools
and strategies for training teamworkbased patient safety to health care
professionals. In 2007, AHRQ and DoD
coordinated the national
implementation of the TeamSTEPPS
program. The main objective of this
program is to improve patient safety by
training a select group of stakeholders
such as Quality Improvement
Organization (QIO) personnel, High
Reliability Organization (HRO) staff, and
health care system staff in various
teamwork, communication, and patient
safety concepts, tools, and techniques
and ultimately helping to build national
capacity for supporting teamwork-based
patient safety efforts in health care
organizations and at the state level. The
implementation includes the
availability of voluntary training of
Master Trainers in various health care
systems capable of stimulating the
utilization and adoption of
TeamSTEPPS in their health care
delivery systems, providing technical
assistance and consultation on
implementing TeamSTEPPS, and
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developing various channels of learning
(e.g., user networks, various educational
venues) for continuation support and
improvement of teamwork in health
care. During this effort, AHRQ has
trained more than 2400 participants to
serve as the Master Trainer
infrastructure supporting national
adoption of TeamSTEPPS. Participants
in training become Master Trainers in
TeamSTEPPS and are afforded the
opportunity to observe the tools and
strategies provided in the program in
action. In addition to developing Master
Trainers, AHRQ has also developed a
series of support mechanisms for this
effort including a data collection Web
tool, a TeamSTEPPS call support center,
and a monthly consortium to address
any challenges encountered by
implementers of TeamSTEPPS.
To understand the extent to which
this expanded patient safety knowledge
and skills have been created, AHRQ will
conduct an evaluation of the National
Implementation of TeamSTEPPS Master
Training program. The goals of this
evaluation are to examine the extent to
which training participants have been
able to:
(1) Implement the TeamSTEPPS
products, concepts, tools, and
techniques in their home organizations
and,
(2) spread that training, knowledge,
and skills to their organizations, local
areas, regions, and states.
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, Health
Research & Educational Trust (HRET),
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 quality
measurement and improvement. 42
U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this
assessment the following two data
collections will be implemented:
(1) Web-based questionnaire to
examine post-training activities and
teamwork outcomes as a result of
training from multiple perspectives. The
questionnaire is directed to all master
training participants. Items will cover
post-training activities, implementation
experiences, facilitators and barriers to
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implementation encountered, and
perceived outcomes as a result of these
activities.
(2) Semi-structured interviews will be
conducted with members from
organizations who participated in the
TeamSTEPPS Master Training program.
Information gathered from these
interviews will be analyzed and used to
draft a ‘‘lessons learned’’ document that
will capture additional detail on the
issues related to participants’ and
organizations’ abilities to implement
and disseminate the TeamSTEPPS posttraining. The organizations will vary in
terms of type of organization (e.g., QIO
or hospital associations versus health
care systems) and region (i.e., Northeast,
Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, MidAtlantic, and West Coast). In addition,
we will strive to ensure
representativeness of the sites by
ensuring that the distribution of
organizations mirrors the distribution of
organizations in the master training
population. For example, if the
distribution of organizations is such that
only one out of every five organizations
is a QIO, we will ensure that a
maximum of two organizations in the
sample are QIOs. The interviews will
more accurately reveal the degree of
training spread for the organizations
included. Interviewees will be drawn
from qualified individuals serving in
one of two roles (i.e., implementers or
facilitators). The interview protocol will
be adapted for each role based on the
respondent group and to some degree,
for each individual, based on their
training and patient safety experience.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondent’s time to participate in the
study. Semi-structured interviews will
be conducted with a maximum of 9
individuals from each of 9 participating
organizations and will last about one
hour each. The training participant
questionnaire will be completed by
approximately 10 individuals from each
of about 240 organizations and is
estimated to require 20 minutes to
complete. The total annualized burden
is estimated to be 881 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to participate in the
study. The total cost burden is estimated
to be $38,923.
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of respondents
Number of responses per
respondent
Hours per response
Semi-structured interview ................................................................................
Training participant questionnaire ...................................................................
9
240
9
10
60/60
20/60
81
800
Total ..........................................................................................................
249
NA
NA
881
Average hourly wage rate *
Total cost burden
Form name
Total burden
hours
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Semi-structured interview ................................................................................
Training participant questionnaire ...................................................................
9
240
81
800
$44.18
44.18
$3,579
35,344
Total ..........................................................................................................
249
881
NA
38,923
* Based upon the mean of the average wages for all health professionals (29–000) for the training participant questionnaire and for executives,
administrators, and managers for the organizational leader questionnaire presented in the National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages
in the United States, May, 2012, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#37-0000.
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 and health
care 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 16, 2013.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Scientific Information Request on
Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and
Staging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Request for scientific
information submissions.
AGENCY:
The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking
scientific information submissions from
the public on imaging tests for the
diagnosis and staging of pancreatic
adenocarcinoma. Scientific information
is being solicited to inform our review
of Imaging Tests for the Diagnosis and
Staging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma,
which is currently being conducted by
the Evidence-based Practice Centers for
the AHRQ Effective Health Care
Program. Access to published and
unpublished pertinent scientific
information on imaging tests for the
diagnosis and staging of pancreatic
adenocarcinoma will improve the
quality of this review. AHRQ is
conducting this comparative
effectiveness review pursuant to Section
1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug,
Improvement, and Modernization Act of
2003, Public Law 108–173, and Section
902(a) of the Public Health Service Act,
42 U.S.C. 299a(a).
DATES: Submission Deadline on or
before September 26, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Online submissions: https://
effectivehealthcare.AHRQ.gov/
index.cfm/submit-scientificSUMMARY:
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information-packets/. Please select the
study for which you are submitting
information from the list to upload your
documents.
Email submissions: SIPS@epc-src.org.
Print submissions:
Mailing Address: Portland VA Research
Foundation, Scientific Resource
Center, ATTN: Scientific Information
Packet Coordinator, P.O. Box 69539,
Portland, OR 97239.
Shipping Address (FedEx, UPS, etc.):
Portland VA Research Foundation,
Scientific Resource Center, ATTN:
Scientific Information Packet
Coordinator, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans
Hospital Road, Mail Code: R&D 71,
Portland, OR 97239.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robin Paynter, Research Librarian,
Telephone: 503–220–8262 ext. 58652 or
Email: SIPS@epc-src.org.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality has commissioned the Effective
Health Care (EHC) Program Evidencebased Practice Centers to complete a
review of the evidence for Imaging Tests
for the Diagnosis and Staging of
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.
The EHC Program is dedicated to
identifying as many studies as possible
that are relevant to the questions for
each of its reviews. In order to do so, we
are supplementing the usual manual
and electronic database searches of the
literature by requesting information
from the public (e.g., details of studies
conducted). We are looking for studies
that report on Imaging Tests for the
Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic
Adenocarcinoma, including those that
describe adverse events. The entire
research protocol, including the key
questions, is also available online at:
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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: ``Assessing the Impact of the National
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Implementation of TeamSTEPPS Master Training Program.'' 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 October 28, 2013.
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 email at
doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Assessing the Impact of the National Implementation of TeamSTEPPS
Master Training Program
As part of their effort to fulfill their mission goals, AHRQ, in
collaboration with the Department of Defense's (DoD) Tricare Management
Activity (TMA), developed TeamSTEPPS[supreg] (aka Team Strategies and
Tools for Enhancing Performance and Patient Safety) to provide an
evidence-based suite of tools and strategies for training teamwork-
based patient safety to health care professionals. In 2007, AHRQ and
DoD coordinated the national implementation of the TeamSTEPPS program.
The main objective of this program is to improve patient safety by
training a select group of stakeholders such as Quality Improvement
Organization (QIO) personnel, High Reliability Organization (HRO)
staff, and health care system staff in various teamwork, communication,
and patient safety concepts, tools, and techniques and ultimately
helping to build national capacity for supporting teamwork-based
patient safety efforts in health care organizations and at the state
level. The implementation includes the availability of voluntary
training of Master Trainers in various health care systems capable of
stimulating the utilization and adoption of TeamSTEPPS in their health
care delivery systems, providing technical assistance and consultation
on implementing TeamSTEPPS, and developing various channels of learning
(e.g., user networks, various educational venues) for continuation
support and improvement of teamwork in health care. During this effort,
AHRQ has trained more than 2400 participants to serve as the Master
Trainer infrastructure supporting national adoption of TeamSTEPPS.
Participants in training become Master Trainers in TeamSTEPPS and are
afforded the opportunity to observe the tools and strategies provided
in the program in action. In addition to developing Master Trainers,
AHRQ has also developed a series of support mechanisms for this effort
including a data collection Web tool, a TeamSTEPPS call support center,
and a monthly consortium to address any challenges encountered by
implementers of TeamSTEPPS.
To understand the extent to which this expanded patient safety
knowledge and skills have been created, AHRQ will conduct an evaluation
of the National Implementation of TeamSTEPPS Master Training program.
The goals of this evaluation are to examine the extent to which
training participants have been able to:
(1) Implement the TeamSTEPPS products, concepts, tools, and
techniques in their home organizations and,
(2) spread that training, knowledge, and skills to their
organizations, local areas, regions, and states.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor,
Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), 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 quality measurement
and improvement. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this assessment the following two data
collections will be implemented:
(1) Web-based questionnaire to examine post-training activities and
teamwork outcomes as a result of training from multiple perspectives.
The questionnaire is directed to all master training participants.
Items will cover post-training activities, implementation experiences,
facilitators and barriers to implementation encountered, and perceived
outcomes as a result of these activities.
(2) Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with members from
organizations who participated in the TeamSTEPPS Master Training
program. Information gathered from these interviews will be analyzed
and used to draft a ``lessons learned'' document that will capture
additional detail on the issues related to participants' and
organizations' abilities to implement and disseminate the TeamSTEPPS
post-training. The organizations will vary in terms of type of
organization (e.g., QIO or hospital associations versus health care
systems) and region (i.e., Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, Southeast,
Mid-Atlantic, and West Coast). In addition, we will strive to ensure
representativeness of the sites by ensuring that the distribution of
organizations mirrors the distribution of organizations in the master
training population. For example, if the distribution of organizations
is such that only one out of every five organizations is a QIO, we will
ensure that a maximum of two organizations in the sample are QIOs. The
interviews will more accurately reveal the degree of training spread
for the organizations included. Interviewees will be drawn from
qualified individuals serving in one of two roles (i.e., implementers
or facilitators). The interview protocol will be adapted for each role
based on the respondent group and to some degree, for each individual,
based on their training and patient safety experience.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondent's time to participate in the study. Semi-structured
interviews will be conducted with a maximum of 9 individuals from each
of 9 participating organizations and will last about one hour each. The
training participant questionnaire will be completed by approximately
10 individuals from each of about 240 organizations and is estimated to
require 20 minutes to complete. The total annualized burden is
estimated to be 881 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to participate in the study. The total cost burden is
estimated to be $38,923.
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Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Semi-structured interview....................... 9 9 60/60 81
Training participant questionnaire.............. 240 10 20/60 800
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 249 NA NA 881
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate * burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Semi-structured interview....................... 9 81 $44.18 $3,579
Training participant questionnaire.............. 240 800 44.18 35,344
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 249 881 NA 38,923
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* Based upon the mean of the average wages for all health professionals (29-000) for the training participant
questionnaire and for executives, administrators, and managers for the organizational leader questionnaire
presented in the National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May, 2012, U.S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#37-0000.
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 and health care 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 16, 2013.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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