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Darius Taylor,
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Decision To Evaluate a Petition To
Designate a Class of Employees From
the Carborundum Company in Niagara
Falls, New York, To Be Included in the
Special Exposure Cohort
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Department of Health
and Human Services.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
NIOSH gives notice as
required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a
decision to evaluate a petition to
designate a class of employees from the
Carborundum Company in Niagara
Falls, New York, to be included in the
Special Exposure Cohort under the
Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000. The
initial proposed definition for the class
being evaluated, subject to revision as
warranted by the evaluation, is as
follows:
Facility: Carborundum Company.
Location: Niagara Falls, New York.
Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All
employees who worked in any area.
Period of Employment: January 1,
1943 through December 31, 1976.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division
of Compensation Analysis and Support,
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum
Avenue, MS C–46, Cincinnati, OH
45226–1938, Telephone 877–222–7570.
Information requests can also be
submitted by email to DCAS@CDC.GOV.
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John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Department of
Health and Human Services (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(b)) 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
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
Common Formats. This meeting is
designed as an interactive forum where
software developers and PSOs can
provide input on the formats. AHRQ
especially requests participation by and
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
10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April
24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the John M. Eisenberg Conference
Center, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, 540 Gaither Road,
Rockville, MD 20850.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eileen Hogan, 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; Email: PSO@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Patient Safety Act and Patient
Safety Rule establish a framework by
which doctors, hospitals, skilled
nursing facilities, and other health care
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
practicable 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/LEGISLATION.
In collaboration with the interagency
Federal Patient Safety Workgroup
(PSWG), the National Quality Forum
(NQF) and the public, AHRQ has
developed Common Formats for two
settings of care—acute care hospitals
and skilled nursing facilities—in order
to facilitate standardized data
collection. AHRQ’s Common Formats
include:
• Event descriptions (descriptions of
patient safety events and unsafe
conditions to be reported),
• Specifications for patient safety
aggregate reports and individual event
summaries,
• Delineation of data elements to be
collected for different types of events to
populate the reports,
• A user’s guide and quick guide, and
• Technical specifications for
electronic data collection and reporting.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Decision To Evaluate a Petition To Designate a Class of Employees
From the Carborundum Company in Niagara Falls, New York, To Be Included
in the Special Exposure Cohort
AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: NIOSH gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a
decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees from
the Carborundum Company in Niagara Falls, New York, to be included in
the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed
definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as
warranted by the evaluation, is as follows:
Facility: Carborundum Company.
Location: Niagara Falls, New York.
Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All employees who worked in any area.
Period of Employment: January 1, 1943 through December 31, 1976.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director,
Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-46,
Cincinnati, OH 45226-1938, Telephone 877-222-7570. Information requests
can also be submitted by email to DCAS@CDC.GOV.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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