Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 40073-40074 [2015-17010]

Agencies

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

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 133 (Monday, July 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40073-40074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17010]


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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: Hospital Data Abstraction, Formerly Entitled 
Evaluation of Emergency Department Crisis Center Follow-Up--(OMB No. 
0930-0337)

    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 Hospital Data Abstraction, formerly

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entitled Evaluation of Emergency Department Crisis Center Follow-up, is 
to examine the impact of crisis center follow-up with patients admitted 
to emergency departments or inpatient behavioral health units following 
a suicide attempt or serious suicidal ideation on subsequent 
readmissions for suicidal behavior. This effort assesses the capacity 
of follow-up to save both lives and critical hospital resources. This 
evaluation effort includes one data collection activity. Clearance is 
being requested for the continuation and expansion of the already-
approved abstraction of hospital data on patients admitted to emergency 
departments or inpatient behavioral health units following a suicide 
attempt or serious ideation. This effort will continue to examine the 
impact of crisis center follow-up on readmissions 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 activity is described below.
    Hospitals collaborating with two cohorts (cohorts IV and V) of 
Lifeline crisis centers will participate in this expanded initiative. 
Fifteen hospitals per cohort will participate for a total of 30. 
Patient data will be collected for patients admitted for a suicide 
attempt in the two years prior to collaboration between the hospital 
and crisis center and for patients admitted for a suicide attempt for 
the two-year period after collaboration.
    The Hospital Data Abstraction Form will be utilized to collect 
systematic patient data for patients seen in the 30 participating 
hospitals' emergency departments or inpatient behavioral health units. 
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 or inpatient behavioral health unit admissions for the two 
years prior to crisis center and hospital collaboration and for two 
years following collaboration. It is expected that a total of 30,000 
records will be abstracted by hospital staff and provided to the 
evaluation team.
    This revision involves an increase in the number of participating 
hospital respondents and burden associated with the continuation/
expansion of the already-approved Hospital Data Abstraction Form (OMB 
No. 0930-0337; Expiration 09/30/2016), as well as the discontinuation 
of data collection and burden associated with the Crisis Center Data 
Abstraction Form.
    The estimated response burden to collect this information is as 
follows annualized over the requested three-year clearance period is 
presented below:

                        Total and Annualized Averages: Respondents, Responses, and Hours
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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number     Burden per     Annual burden
           Instrument               respondents    respondent *    of responses      response            *
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Hospital Data Abstraction Form..              30             334          10,020             .04             401
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* Rounded to the nearest whole number.

    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 2-1057, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 or email her a 
copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments should be received 
by September 11, 2015.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2015-17010 Filed 7-10-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4162-20-P