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Agency Information Collection
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Comment Request
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and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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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: ‘‘Nursing
Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Comparative Database.’’ In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44
U.S.C. 3501–3521, AHRQ invites the
public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by May 22, 2015.
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:
SUMMARY:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Proposed Project
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety
Culture Comparative Database
Background on the Nursing Home
Survey on Patient Safety Culture
(Nursing Home SOPS). In 1999, the
Institute of Medicine called for health
care organizations to develop a ‘‘culture
of safety’’ such that their workforce and
processes focus on improving the
reliability and safety of care for patients
(IOM, 1999; To Err is Human: Building
a Safer Health System). To respond to
the need for tools to assess patient safety
culture in health care, AHRQ developed
and pilot tested the Nursing Home
SOPS with OMB approval (OMB NO.
0935–0132; Approved July 5, 2007).
The survey is designed to enable
nursing homes to assess provider and
staff opinions about patient safety
issues, medical error, and error
reporting and includes 42 items that
measure 12 dimensions of patient safety
culture. AHRQ made the survey
publicly available along with a Survey
User’s Guide and other toolkit materials
in November 2008 on the AHRQ Web
site (located at https://www.ahrq.gov/
professionals/quality-patient-safety/
patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/
index.html).
The AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS
Comparative Database consists of data
from the AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS.
Nursing homes in the U.S. are asked to
voluntarily submit data from the survey
to AHRQ through its contractor, Westat.
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The Nursing Home SOPS database
(OMB NO. 0935–0195, last approved on
June 12, 2012) was developed by AHRQ
in 2011 in response to requests from
nursing homes interested in knowing
how their patient safety culture survey
results compare to those of other
nursing homes in their efforts to
improve patient safety.
Rationale for the information
collection. The Nursing Home SOPS and
the Comparative Database support
AHRQ’s goals of promoting
improvements in the quality and safety
of health care in nursing home settings.
The survey, toolkit materials, and
comparative database results are all
made publicly available on AHRQ’s
Web site. Technical assistance is
provided by AHRQ through its
contractor at no charge to nursing
homes to facilitate the use of these
materials for nursing home patient
safety and quality improvement.
The goal of this project is to renew the
Nursing Home SOPS Comparative
Database. This database will:
(1) Allow nursing homes to compare
their patient safety culture survey
results with those of other nursing
homes,
(2) Provide data to nursing homes to
facilitate internal assessment and
learning in the patient safety
improvement process, and
(3) Provide supplemental information
to help nursing homes identify their
strengths and areas with potential for
improvement in patient safety culture.
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, Westat,
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; quality measurement and
improvement; and database
development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2),
and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project the
following activities and data collections
will be implemented:
(1) Eligibility and Registration Form—
The nursing home (or parent
organization) point of contact (POC)
completes a number of data submission
steps and forms, beginning with the
completion of an online eligibility and
registration form. The purpose of this
form is to determine the eligibility
status and initiate the registration
process for nursing homes seeking to
voluntarily submit their Nursing Home
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SOPS data to the Nursing Home SOPS
Comparative Database.
(2) Data Use Agreement—The purpose
of the data use agreement, completed by
the nursing home POC, is to state how
data submitted by nursing homes will
be used and provides confidentiality
assurances.
(3) Nursing Home Site Information
Form—The purpose of the site
information form is to obtain basic
information about the characteristics of
the nursing homes submitting their
Nursing Home SOPS data to the Nursing
Home SOPS Comparative Database (e.g.,
bed size, urbanicity, ownership, and
geographic region). The nursing home
POC completes the form.
(4) Data Files Submission—The
number of submissions to the database
is likely to vary each year because
nursing homes do not administer the
survey and submit data every year. Data
submission is typically handled by one
POC who is either a corporate level
health care manager for a Quality
Improvement Organization (QIO), a
survey vendor who contracts with a
nursing home to collect their data, or a
nursing home Director of Nursing or
nurse manager. POCs submit data on
behalf of 5 nursing homes, on average,
because many nursing homes are part of
a QIO or larger nursing home or health
system that includes many nursing
home sites, or the POC is a vendor that
is submitting data for multiple nursing
homes. POCs upload their data file(s),
using the nursing home data file
specifications, to ensure that users
submit standardized and consistent data
in the way variables are named, coded,
and formatted.
Survey data from the AHRQ Nursing
Home SOPS are used to produce three
types of products: (1) A Nursing Home
SOPS Comparative Database Report that
is produced periodically and made
publicly available on the AHRQ Web
site (see https://www.ahrq.gov/
professionals/quality-patient-safety/
patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/
2014/nhsurv14-ptI.pdf for the 2014
report); (2) Individual Nursing Home
Survey Feedback Reports that are
confidential, customized reports
produced for each nursing home that
submits data to the database (the
number of reports produced is based on
the number of nursing homes
submitting in any given calendar year);
and (3) Research data sets of individuallevel and nursing home-level deidentified data to enable researchers to
conduct analyses.
Nursing homes are asked to
voluntarily submit their Nursing Home
SOPS survey data to the Comparative
Database. The data are then cleaned and
aggregated and used to produce a
Comparative Database Report that
displays averages, standard deviations,
and percentile scores on the survey’s 42
items and 12 patient safety culture
dimensions, as well as displaying these
results by nursing home characteristics
(bed size, urbanicity, ownership, and
Census Bureau Region, etc.) and
respondent characteristics (work area/
unit, staff position, and interaction with
patients).
Data submitted by nursing homes are
also used to give each nursing home its
own customized survey feedback report
that presents the nursing home’s results
compared to the latest comparative
database results. If a nursing home
submits data more than once, its survey
feedback report also presents trend data,
comparing its previous and most recent
data.
Nursing homes use the Nursing Home
SOPS, Comparative Database Reports
and Individual Nursing Home Survey
Feedback Reports for a number of
purposes, to:
• Raise staff awareness about patient
safety.
• Diagnose and assess the current
status of patient safety culture in their
nursing home.
• Identify strengths and areas for
patient safety culture improvement.
• Examine trends in patient safety
culture change over time.
• Evaluate the cultural impact of
patient safety initiatives and
interventions.
• Compare patient safety culture
survey results with other nursing homes
in their efforts to improve patient safety
and health care quality.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in the
database. An estimated 300 POCs, each
representing an average of 5 individual
nursing homes each, will complete the
database submission steps and forms
annually. Completing the eligibility and
registration form will take about 3
minutes. Each POC will complete a data
use agreement which takes about 3
minutes to complete. The Nursing Home
Site Information Form is completed by
all POCs for each of their nursing homes
(300 x 5 = 1,500 forms in total) and is
estimated to take 5 minutes to complete.
The POC will submit data for all of the
nursing homes he/she represents, which
will take 1 hour on average. The total
annual burden hours are estimated to be
455.
The 300 respondents/POCs shown in
Exhibit 1 are based on an estimate of
nursing homes submitting data in the
coming years, with the following
assumptions:
• 105 POCs for QIOs submitting on
behalf of 10 nursing homes each
• 18 POCs for vendors outside of
QIOs submitting on behalf of 10 nursing
homes each
• 177 independent nursing homes
submitting on their own behalf
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to submit their data.
The cost burden is estimated to be
$20,839 annually.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents/
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Form name
Number of
responses per
POC
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Eligibility/Registration Form .............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Nursing Home Site Information Form ..............................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
300
300
300
300
1
1
5
1
3/60
3/60
5/60
1
15
15
125
300
Total ..........................................................................................................
1,200
NA
NA
455
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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
burden
Eligibility/Registration Forms ...........................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Nursing Home Site Information Form ..............................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
300
300
300
300
15
15
125
300
$45.80
45.80
45.80
45.80
$687
687
5,725
13,740
Total ..........................................................................................................
1,200
455
NA
20,839
* The wage rate in Exhibit 2 is based on May 2013 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor. Mean hourly wages for nursing home POCs are located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_623100.htm and
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/oes/current/naics2_62.htm. The hourly wage of $45.80 is the weighted mean of $47.97 (General and Operations
Managers; N = 88), $40.07 (Medical and Health Services Managers; N = 89), $47.10 (General and Operations Managers; N =105) and $55.94
(Computer and Information Systems Managers; N = 18).
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 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: March 17, 2015.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director, AHRQ.
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Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
Title: Proposed Healthy Marriage and
Responsible Fatherhood Performance
Measures and Additional Data
Collection (Part of the Fatherhood and
Marriage Local Evaluation and Crosssite [FaMLE Cross-site] Project).
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OMB No.: New Collection.
Background: For decades various
organizations and agencies have been
developing and operating programs to
strengthen families through healthy
marriage and relationship education and
responsible fatherhood programming.
The Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), Office of Family
Assistance (OFA), has had
administrative responsibility for federal
funding of such programs since 2006
through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and
Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Grant
Programs. The authorizing legislation
for the programs may be found in
section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security
Act [1]. Responsible Fatherhood
grantees provide a comprehensive set of
services designed to promote
responsible fatherhood including
activities related to promoting economic
stability, fostering responsible
parenting, and promoting healthy
marriage. Grantees receiving funding for
Healthy Marriage offer a broad array of
services designed to promote healthy
marriage.
The federal government currently
collects a set of performance measures
from HM and RF grantees. The purpose
of this previously approved information
collection is to allow OFA and ACF to
carry out their responsibilities for
program accountability. Descriptions of
the information collection may be found
at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=2012060970-005; all measures may be found at
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAICList?ref_nbr=201206-0970-005.
The Fatherhood and Marriage Local
Evaluation (FaMLE) Cross-Site Project:
The Offices of Family Assistance (OFA)
and Planning, Research and Evaluation
(OPRE) in the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) are proposing new data
collection activities to replace existing
performance measures as part of the
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Fatherhood and Marriage Local
Evaluation and Cross-site (FaMLE Crosssite) Project. The purpose of the FaMLE
Cross-site Project is to support high
quality data collection, strengthen local
evaluations, and conduct cross-site
analysis for the Responsible Fatherhood
and Healthy Marriage grantees.
The FaMLE Cross-site project will
answer three main research questions:
(1) What strategies did grantees use to
design well-conceived programs? (2)
What strategies did grantees use to
successfully implement well-conceived
programs? (3) What were the reported
outcomes for participants in the
programs? In order to answer these
questions, we are considering a new set
of data collection activities.
Current request: ACF is engaged in a
learning agenda to increase our
understanding of Healthy Marriage and
Responsible Fatherhood programs. This
means that we incorporate multiple
opportunities and options for learning
throughout a program’s implementation
that provide a range of insights and
perspectives. These opportunities help
programming constantly develop and
advance. For example, data provide the
opportunity to feed information back to
decision-makers and leaders—both
those on the ground and those in
management—to inform program
design, operation, and oversight.
On November 6, 2014, ACF published
a Federal Register Notice (79 FR 65973)
requesting public comment on the
following:
Performance measures. ACF is
proposing a new set of performance
measures to be collected by all grantees,
beginning with the next round of HMRF
grants. These measures will collect
standardized information in the
following areas:
• Applicant characteristics;
• Program operations (including
program characteristics and service
delivery); and
• Participant outcomes (will be
measured both at initiation of program
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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: ``Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative
Database.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501-3521, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by May 22, 2015.
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
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database
Background on the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
(Nursing Home SOPS). In 1999, the Institute of Medicine called for
health care organizations to develop a ``culture of safety'' such that
their workforce and processes focus on improving the reliability and
safety of care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is Human: Building a
Safer Health System). To respond to the need for tools to assess
patient safety culture in health care, AHRQ developed and pilot tested
the Nursing Home SOPS with OMB approval (OMB NO. 0935-0132; Approved
July 5, 2007).
The survey is designed to enable nursing homes to assess provider
and staff opinions about patient safety issues, medical error, and
error reporting and includes 42 items that measure 12 dimensions of
patient safety culture. AHRQ made the survey publicly available along
with a Survey User's Guide and other toolkit materials in November 2008
on the AHRQ Web site (located at https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/).
The AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database consists of data
from the AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS. Nursing homes in the U.S. are asked to
voluntarily submit data from the survey to AHRQ through its contractor,
Westat. The Nursing Home SOPS database (OMB NO. 0935-0195, last
approved on June 12, 2012) was developed by AHRQ in 2011 in response to
requests from nursing homes interested in knowing how their patient
safety culture survey results compare to those of other nursing homes
in their efforts to improve patient safety.
Rationale for the information collection. The Nursing Home SOPS and
the Comparative Database support AHRQ's goals of promoting improvements
in the quality and safety of health care in nursing home settings. The
survey, toolkit materials, and comparative database results are all
made publicly available on AHRQ's Web site. Technical assistance is
provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to nursing homes
to facilitate the use of these materials for nursing home patient
safety and quality improvement.
The goal of this project is to renew the Nursing Home SOPS
Comparative Database. This database will:
(1) Allow nursing homes to compare their patient safety culture
survey results with those of other nursing homes,
(2) Provide data to nursing homes to facilitate internal assessment
and learning in the patient safety improvement process, and
(3) Provide supplemental information to help nursing homes identify
their strengths and areas with potential for improvement in patient
safety culture.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor,
Westat, 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; quality
measurement and improvement; and database development. 42 U.S.C.
299a(a)(1), (2), and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project the following activities and
data collections will be implemented:
(1) Eligibility and Registration Form--The nursing home (or parent
organization) point of contact (POC) completes a number of data
submission steps and forms, beginning with the completion of an online
eligibility and registration form. The purpose of this form is to
determine the eligibility status and initiate the registration process
for nursing homes seeking to voluntarily submit their Nursing Home
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SOPS data to the Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database.
(2) Data Use Agreement--The purpose of the data use agreement,
completed by the nursing home POC, is to state how data submitted by
nursing homes will be used and provides confidentiality assurances.
(3) Nursing Home Site Information Form--The purpose of the site
information form is to obtain basic information about the
characteristics of the nursing homes submitting their Nursing Home SOPS
data to the Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database (e.g., bed size,
urbanicity, ownership, and geographic region). The nursing home POC
completes the form.
(4) Data Files Submission--The number of submissions to the
database is likely to vary each year because nursing homes do not
administer the survey and submit data every year. Data submission is
typically handled by one POC who is either a corporate level health
care manager for a Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), a survey
vendor who contracts with a nursing home to collect their data, or a
nursing home Director of Nursing or nurse manager. POCs submit data on
behalf of 5 nursing homes, on average, because many nursing homes are
part of a QIO or larger nursing home or health system that includes
many nursing home sites, or the POC is a vendor that is submitting data
for multiple nursing homes. POCs upload their data file(s), using the
nursing home data file specifications, to ensure that users submit
standardized and consistent data in the way variables are named, coded,
and formatted.
Survey data from the AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS are used to produce
three types of products: (1) A Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database
Report that is produced periodically and made publicly available on the
AHRQ Web site (see https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/2014/nhsurv14-ptI.pdf for the
2014 report); (2) Individual Nursing Home Survey Feedback Reports that
are confidential, customized reports produced for each nursing home
that submits data to the database (the number of reports produced is
based on the number of nursing homes submitting in any given calendar
year); and (3) Research data sets of individual-level and nursing home-
level de-identified data to enable researchers to conduct analyses.
Nursing homes are asked to voluntarily submit their Nursing Home
SOPS survey data to the Comparative Database. The data are then cleaned
and aggregated and used to produce a Comparative Database Report that
displays averages, standard deviations, and percentile scores on the
survey's 42 items and 12 patient safety culture dimensions, as well as
displaying these results by nursing home characteristics (bed size,
urbanicity, ownership, and Census Bureau Region, etc.) and respondent
characteristics (work area/unit, staff position, and interaction with
patients).
Data submitted by nursing homes are also used to give each nursing
home its own customized survey feedback report that presents the
nursing home's results compared to the latest comparative database
results. If a nursing home submits data more than once, its survey
feedback report also presents trend data, comparing its previous and
most recent data.
Nursing homes use the Nursing Home SOPS, Comparative Database
Reports and Individual Nursing Home Survey Feedback Reports for a
number of purposes, to:
Raise staff awareness about patient safety.
Diagnose and assess the current status of patient safety
culture in their nursing home.
Identify strengths and areas for patient safety culture
improvement.
Examine trends in patient safety culture change over time.
Evaluate the cultural impact of patient safety initiatives
and interventions.
Compare patient safety culture survey results with other
nursing homes in their efforts to improve patient safety and health
care quality.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate in the database. An estimated 300
POCs, each representing an average of 5 individual nursing homes each,
will complete the database submission steps and forms annually.
Completing the eligibility and registration form will take about 3
minutes. Each POC will complete a data use agreement which takes about
3 minutes to complete. The Nursing Home Site Information Form is
completed by all POCs for each of their nursing homes (300 x 5 = 1,500
forms in total) and is estimated to take 5 minutes to complete. The POC
will submit data for all of the nursing homes he/she represents, which
will take 1 hour on average. The total annual burden hours are
estimated to be 455.
The 300 respondents/POCs shown in Exhibit 1 are based on an
estimate of nursing homes submitting data in the coming years, with the
following assumptions:
105 POCs for QIOs submitting on behalf of 10 nursing homes
each
18 POCs for vendors outside of QIOs submitting on behalf
of 10 nursing homes each
177 independent nursing homes submitting on their own
behalf
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to submit their data. The cost burden is estimated to
be $20,839 annually.
Exhibit 1--Estimated annualized burden hours
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Number of Number of
Form name respondents/ responses per Hours per Total burden
POCs POC response hours
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Eligibility/Registration Form................... 300 1 3/60 15
Data Use Agreement.............................. 300 1 3/60 15
Nursing Home Site Information Form.............. 300 5 5/60 125
Data Files Submission........................... 300 1 1 300
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Total....................................... 1,200 NA NA 455
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Exhibit 2--Estimated annualized cost burden
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Number of Average
Form name respondents/ Total burden hourly wage Total cost
POCs hours rate * burden
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Eligibility/Registration Forms.................. 300 15 $45.80 $687
Data Use Agreement.............................. 300 15 45.80 687
Nursing Home Site Information Form.............. 300 125 45.80 5,725
Data Files Submission........................... 300 300 45.80 13,740
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Total....................................... 1,200 455 NA 20,839
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* The wage rate in Exhibit 2 is based on May 2013 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor. Mean hourly wages for nursing home POCs are
located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_623100.htm and https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/oes/current/naics2_62.htm. The hourly wage of $45.80 is the weighted mean of $47.97 (General and Operations
Managers; N = 88), $40.07 (Medical and Health Services Managers; N = 89), $47.10 (General and Operations
Managers; N =105) and $55.94 (Computer and Information Systems Managers; N = 18).
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 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: March 17, 2015.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director, AHRQ.
[FR Doc. 2015-06451 Filed 3-20-15; 8:45 am]
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