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Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@
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information collection, contact Cathy
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Title: Data Network Identification
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Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
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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 for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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: ‘‘Online
Submission Form for Supplemental
Evidence and Data for Systematic
reviews for the Evidence-based Practice
Center Program.’’ 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 November 20, 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.
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Proposed Project
This is a new activity of AHRQ’s
Evidence-based Practice Center
Program.
Evidence-based Practice Center Program
AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice
Center (EPC) Program develops
evidence reports and technology
assessments on topics relevant to
clinical and other health care
organization and delivery issues—
specifically those that are common,
expensive, and/or significant for the
Medicare and Medicaid populations.
For example recent reviews have
focused on clinical conditions, such as
‘‘Treatment of Nonmetastatic MuscleInvasive Bladder Cancer’’; health
delivery topics such as ‘‘Management
Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric
Admissions’’; and specific technologies
such as ‘‘Imaging Techniques for
Treatment Evaluation for Metastatic
Breast Cancer.’’ These evidence reports
include systematic reviews and
technical briefs, and provide an
essential foundation from which to
understand what we know from existing
research and what critical research gaps
remain. These reports, reviews, and
technology assessments are based on
rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and
analyses of the scientific literature on
topics. EPC reports and assessments
emphasize explicit and detailed
documentation of methods, rationale,
and assumptions. EPC reports are
conducted in accordance with an
established policy on financial and
nonfinancial interests. These scientific
syntheses may include meta-analyses
and cost analyses.
The EPC Program supports AHRQ’s
mission by synthesizing and
disseminating the available research as
a ‘‘science partner’’ with private and
public organizations in their efforts to
improve the quality, effectiveness, and
appropriateness of health care. The EPC
Program is a trusted source of rigorous,
comprehensive, and unbiased evidence
reviews for stakeholders. The resulting
evidence reports and technology
assessments are used by Federal and
State agencies, private-sector
professional societies, health delivery
systems, providers, payers, and others
committed to evidence-based health
care. These end users may use EPC
Program evidence reports to inform
policy decisions, clinical practice
guidelines, and other health care
decisions.
EPC research has the following goals:
Æ Use research methods to gather
knowledge on the effectiveness of
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certain treatments for specific medical
conditions, both published and
unpublished, to evaluate the quality of
research studies and the evidence from
these studies.
Æ Promote the use of evidence in
health care decision making to improve
health care and health.
Æ Identify research gaps to inform
future research investments.
The Institute of Medicine standards
for quality systematic reviews include
an assessment of publication bias
through the identification of
unpublished studies. This is an
important source for bias which could
affect the nature and direction of
research findings. Identifying and
including the results of these additional
unpublished studies may provide a
more complete and accurate assessment
of an intervention’s effect on outcomes.
An important way to identify
unpublished studies is through requests
to medical device manufacturers,
pharmaceutical companies, and other
intervention developers.
The proposed project involves
sending a request letter to relevant
medical device manufacturers,
pharmaceutical companies and other
intervention developers to invite them
to submit unpublished studies or other
scientific information to the EPC
Program Web site, with one request per
systematic review topic. Because
research on each topic must be
completed in a timely manner in order
for it to be useful, the collections are
never ongoing—there is one request and
collection per topic. Investigators in the
EPC Program will review the
information and assess potential risk of
bias from both published and
unpublished studies and its impact on
the EPC Program’s findings. AHRQ
believes the display of these
assessments in the systematic review’s
evidence tables will improve the
response and submission rates of
industry stakeholders by informing the
health care community of the impact of
potential bias on the research
conclusions, and for health care
decision making.
This activity is being conducted by
AHRQ’s EPC Program through its
contractor, the Scientific Resource
Center (SRC), pursuant to AHRQ’s
statutory authority to conduct and
support research on health care and on
systems for the delivery of such care
and to disseminate government-funded
research relevant to comparative clinical
effectiveness research. 42 U.S.C.
299a(a); 42 U.S.C. 299b–37(a).
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Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the
following data collections will be
implemented:
• Online Submission Form
Instrument. This information is
collected for the purposes of providing
supplemental evidence and data for
systematic reviews (SEADS). The online
submission form (OSF) collects data
from respondents on their organization
name, their product’s name, and
whether they are providing all
information on requested studies
characteristic of the review in progress.
This happens following receipt of a
request letter from the SRC. These
requests will be sent to relevant
sponsors of preventative and treatment
interventions (e.g., medical device
manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, and
other intervention and health care
system developers), with one request
per topic. For the purposes of metaanalyses, trial summary data from
missing and unidentified studies are
sought. For the purposes of constructing
evidence tables and quality ratings (e.g.
on public reporting of cost measures or
health information exchange), data can
vary (e.g., URLs, study designs, and
consumer-mediated exchange forms).
Information on both completed and
ongoing studies are requested.
The EPC Program, through the SRC,
currently uses a Federal Register notice
and broad- based email announcement
to stakeholders to allow the public to
know about each topic, and the
opportunity to submit scientific
information. In 2014, the Program sent
517 notifications to 336 industry
stakeholders. Of those 517
announcements sent, 14.1% received a
response; 56.2% of the responses (or
7.9% of all requests) contained
submissions of information on the
results of interventions. This experience
has prompted this proposed project.
The additional use of direct requests
to relevant organizations would improve
the Program’s ability to obtain this
information. Contacting intervention
sponsors for missing and potentially
unidentified studies could improve the
impact of research efforts and
downstream dissemination efforts and
could positively impact the health of
individuals, burdened by poor health
along with their supporting
communities. Including information
about response data to these requests to
more accurately characterize the
completeness of the evidence in the
systematic reviews may also address
this issue.
The proposed project does not
duplicate other available sources of this
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information. Available study registries
and databases may not be complete to
sufficiently inform the Program’s
research.
The purpose of SEADS requests is not
to collect generalizable data, but to
supplement the published and grey
literature searches EPC investigators are
conducting. Furthermore, considering
the evidence and data included in
responses collected from industry
stakeholders, an assessment pertaining
to the completeness of the evidencebase will be produced. This, AHRQ
believes, will increase the value of
AHRQ’s research reviews to end users
and potentially provide stakeholders a
better understanding of how their
submissions are used.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 presents estimates of the
reporting burden hours for the data
collection efforts. Time estimates are
based on pilot testing of materials and
what can reasonably be requested of
respondents. The number of
respondents listed in ‘‘Number of
respondents per SEADS request’’ of
Exhibit 1 reflects a projected 80%
response rate.
Online Submission Form: A form for
submitting scientific evidence and data
related to medical interventions
sponsored by organizations and
individuals such as pharmaceutical
companies and independent
researchers. The form has three required
fields: The organization’s name, the
intervention in question, and whether
the information they provide is all the
information they know to exist. They
may upload documents and they are
also provided a data entry form if they
wish to offer greater details on their
studies.
An Optional Data Entry Form is
available as an alternative to the Online
Submission form. The time
requirements for response would be
same as the Online Submission Form.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
per SEADS
request
Form name
Online Submission Form (OSF) ......................................................................
Total ..........................................................................................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
70
70
1
1
Hours per
response
15/60
15/60
Total
burden hours
per SEADS
17.5
17.5
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST HOURS
Number of
SEADS
requests
Form name
OSF ..................................................................................................................
Total ..........................................................................................................
Total
burden hours
per SEADS
70
70
17.5
17.5
Average
hourly wage
rate *
$55.48 a
55.48
Total cost
burden
$970.90
970.90
* Occupational Employment Statistics, May 2014 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates United States, U.S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#b29-0000.
a Based on the mean wages for Public Relations and Fundraising Managers, 11–2031, the occupational group most likely tasked with completing the OSF.
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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
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comments will become a matter of
public record.
Sharon Arnold,
Deputy Director.
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Notice of Meetings
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ACTION: Notice of Five AHRQ
Subcommittee Meetings.
AGENCY:
The subcommittees listed
below are part of AHRQ’s Health
Services Research Initial Review Group
Committee. Grant applications are to be
reviewed and discussed at these
meetings. Each subcommittee meeting
will commence in open session before
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closing to the public for the duration of
the meeting. These meetings will be
closed to the public in accordance with
5 U.S.C. App. 2 section 10(d), 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(4), and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
DATES: See below for dates of meetings:
1. Healthcare Effectiveness and
Outcomes Research (HEOR)
Date: October 7, 2015 (Open from 8:30
a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on October 7th and
closed for remainder of the meeting)
2. Health System and Value Research
(HSVR)
Date: October 7, 2015 (Open from 8:30
a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on October 7th and
closed for remainder of the meeting)
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Improvement Research (HSQR)
Date: October 14–15, 2015 (Open from
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on October
14th and closed for remainder of
the meeting)
4. Health Care Research and Training
(HCRT)
Date: October 15–16, 2015 (Open from
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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: ``Online Submission Form for Supplemental Evidence and Data
for Systematic reviews for the Evidence-based Practice Center
Program.'' 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 November 20, 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.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
This is a new activity of AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Center
Program.
Evidence-based Practice Center Program
AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program develops
evidence reports and technology assessments on topics relevant to
clinical and other health care organization and delivery issues--
specifically those that are common, expensive, and/or significant for
the Medicare and Medicaid populations. For example recent reviews have
focused on clinical conditions, such as ``Treatment of Nonmetastatic
Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer''; health delivery topics such as
``Management Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Admissions''; and
specific technologies such as ``Imaging Techniques for Treatment
Evaluation for Metastatic Breast Cancer.'' These evidence reports
include systematic reviews and technical briefs, and provide an
essential foundation from which to understand what we know from
existing research and what critical research gaps remain. These
reports, reviews, and technology assessments are based on rigorous,
comprehensive syntheses and analyses of the scientific literature on
topics. EPC reports and assessments emphasize explicit and detailed
documentation of methods, rationale, and assumptions. EPC reports are
conducted in accordance with an established policy on financial and
nonfinancial interests. These scientific syntheses may include meta-
analyses and cost analyses.
The EPC Program supports AHRQ's mission by synthesizing and
disseminating the available research as a ``science partner'' with
private and public organizations in their efforts to improve the
quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of health care. The EPC
Program is a trusted source of rigorous, comprehensive, and unbiased
evidence reviews for stakeholders. The resulting evidence reports and
technology assessments are used by Federal and State agencies, private-
sector professional societies, health delivery systems, providers,
payers, and others committed to evidence-based health care. These end
users may use EPC Program evidence reports to inform policy decisions,
clinical practice guidelines, and other health care decisions.
EPC research has the following goals:
[cir] Use research methods to gather knowledge on the effectiveness
of certain treatments for specific medical conditions, both published
and unpublished, to evaluate the quality of research studies and the
evidence from these studies.
[cir] Promote the use of evidence in health care decision making to
improve health care and health.
[cir] Identify research gaps to inform future research investments.
The Institute of Medicine standards for quality systematic reviews
include an assessment of publication bias through the identification of
unpublished studies. This is an important source for bias which could
affect the nature and direction of research findings. Identifying and
including the results of these additional unpublished studies may
provide a more complete and accurate assessment of an intervention's
effect on outcomes. An important way to identify unpublished studies is
through requests to medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical
companies, and other intervention developers.
The proposed project involves sending a request letter to relevant
medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and other
intervention developers to invite them to submit unpublished studies or
other scientific information to the EPC Program Web site, with one
request per systematic review topic. Because research on each topic
must be completed in a timely manner in order for it to be useful, the
collections are never ongoing--there is one request and collection per
topic. Investigators in the EPC Program will review the information and
assess potential risk of bias from both published and unpublished
studies and its impact on the EPC Program's findings. AHRQ believes the
display of these assessments in the systematic review's evidence tables
will improve the response and submission rates of industry stakeholders
by informing the health care community of the impact of potential bias
on the research conclusions, and for health care decision making.
This activity is being conducted by AHRQ's EPC Program through its
contractor, the Scientific Resource Center (SRC), pursuant to AHRQ's
statutory authority to conduct and support research on health care and
on systems for the delivery of such care and to disseminate government-
funded research relevant to comparative clinical effectiveness
research. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a); 42 U.S.C. 299b-37(a).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the following data collections
will be implemented:
Online Submission Form Instrument. This information is
collected for the purposes of providing supplemental evidence and data
for systematic reviews (SEADS). The online submission form (OSF)
collects data from respondents on their organization name, their
product's name, and whether they are providing all information on
requested studies characteristic of the review in progress. This
happens following receipt of a request letter from the SRC. These
requests will be sent to relevant sponsors of preventative and
treatment interventions (e.g., medical device manufacturers,
pharmaceuticals, and other intervention and health care system
developers), with one request per topic. For the purposes of meta-
analyses, trial summary data from missing and unidentified studies are
sought. For the purposes of constructing evidence tables and quality
ratings (e.g. on public reporting of cost measures or health
information exchange), data can vary (e.g., URLs, study designs, and
consumer-mediated exchange forms). Information on both completed and
ongoing studies are requested.
The EPC Program, through the SRC, currently uses a Federal Register
notice and broad- based email announcement to stakeholders to allow the
public to know about each topic, and the opportunity to submit
scientific information. In 2014, the Program sent 517 notifications to
336 industry stakeholders. Of those 517 announcements sent, 14.1%
received a response; 56.2% of the responses (or 7.9% of all requests)
contained submissions of information on the results of interventions.
This experience has prompted this proposed project.
The additional use of direct requests to relevant organizations
would improve the Program's ability to obtain this information.
Contacting intervention sponsors for missing and potentially
unidentified studies could improve the impact of research efforts and
downstream dissemination efforts and could positively impact the health
of individuals, burdened by poor health along with their supporting
communities. Including information about response data to these
requests to more accurately characterize the completeness of the
evidence in the systematic reviews may also address this issue.
The proposed project does not duplicate other available sources of
this
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information. Available study registries and databases may not be
complete to sufficiently inform the Program's research.
The purpose of SEADS requests is not to collect generalizable data,
but to supplement the published and grey literature searches EPC
investigators are conducting. Furthermore, considering the evidence and
data included in responses collected from industry stakeholders, an
assessment pertaining to the completeness of the evidence-base will be
produced. This, AHRQ believes, will increase the value of AHRQ's
research reviews to end users and potentially provide stakeholders a
better understanding of how their submissions are used.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 presents estimates of the reporting burden hours for the
data collection efforts. Time estimates are based on pilot testing of
materials and what can reasonably be requested of respondents. The
number of respondents listed in ``Number of respondents per SEADS
request'' of Exhibit 1 reflects a projected 80% response rate.
Online Submission Form: A form for submitting scientific evidence
and data related to medical interventions sponsored by organizations
and individuals such as pharmaceutical companies and independent
researchers. The form has three required fields: The organization's
name, the intervention in question, and whether the information they
provide is all the information they know to exist. They may upload
documents and they are also provided a data entry form if they wish to
offer greater details on their studies.
An Optional Data Entry Form is available as an alternative to the
Online Submission form. The time requirements for response would be
same as the Online Submission Form.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
respondents Number of Hours per Total burden
Form name per SEADS responses per response hours per
request respondent SEADS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Online Submission Form (OSF).................... 70 1 15/60 17.5
Total....................................... 70 1 15/60 17.5
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total burden
Form name Number of hours per Average hourly Total cost
SEADS requests SEADS wage rate * burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OSF............................................. 70 17.5 $55.48 \a\ $970.90
Total....................................... 70 17.5 55.48 970.90
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* Occupational Employment Statistics, May 2014 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates United
States, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#b29-0000 0000.
\a\ Based on the mean wages for Public Relations and Fundraising Managers, 11-2031, the occupational group most
likely tasked with completing the OSF.
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.
Sharon Arnold,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2015-23573 Filed 9-18-15; 8:45 am]
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