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A. Purpose
The U.S. Government conducts
criminal checks to establish that
applicants or incumbents working for
the Government under contract may
have unescorted access to federally
controlled facilities. GSA uses the
Contractor Information Worksheet; GSA
Form 850, and digitally captured
fingerprints to conduct a FBI National
Criminal Information Check (NCIC) for
each contractor’s physical access
determination to GSA-controlled
facilities and/or logical access to GSAcontrolled information systems. Manual
fingerprint card SF–87 is used for
exception cases such as contractor’s
significant geographical distance from
fingerprint enrollment sites.
The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Guidance M–05–24 for
Homeland Security Presidential
Directive (HSPD) 12, authorizes Federal
departments and agencies to ensure that
contractors have limited/controlled
access to facilities and information
systems. GSA Directive CIO P 2181.1
Homeland Security Presidential
Directive-12, Personal Identity
Verification and Credentialing (available
at https://www.gsa.gov/hspd12), states
that GSA contractors must undergo a
minimum of an FBI National Criminal
Information Check (NCIC) to receive
unescorted physical access to GSAcontrolled facilities and/or logical
access to GSA-controlled information
systems.
Contractors’ Social Security Number
is needed to keep records accurate,
because other people may have the same
name and birth date. Executive Order
9397, Numbering System for Federal
Accounts Relating to Individual
Persons, also allows Federal agencies to
use this number to help identify
individuals in agency records.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 25,000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Total Annual Responses: 25,000.
Hours per Response: .25.
Total Burden Hours: 6,250.
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C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary and whether it
will have practical utility; whether our
estimate of the public burden of this
collection of information is accurate,
and based on valid assumptions and
methodology; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
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information collection documents from
the General Services Administration,
Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB),
1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC
20405, telephone 202–501–4755. Please
cite OMB Control No. 3090–0283,
Contractor Information Worksheet; GSA
Form 850 in all correspondence. The
form can be downloaded from the GSA
Forms Library at https://www.gsa.gov/
forms. Type GSA 850 in the form search
field.
Dated: March 31, 2016.
David A. Shive,
Chief Information Officer.
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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.
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:
‘‘Hospital 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 June 7, 2016.
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:
Proposed Project
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Culture Comparative Database
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine
called for health care organizations to
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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 Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture with OMB approval
(OMB NO. 0935–0115; Approved
2/4/2003).
The survey is designed to enable
hospitals to assess staff opinions about
patient safety issues, medical errors, and
error reporting. The survey includes 42
items that measure 12 composites of
patient safety culture. AHRQ made the
survey publicly available along with a
Survey User’s Guide and other toolkit
materials in November 2004 on the
AHRQ Web site (located at https://
www.ahrq.gov/professionals/qualitypatient-safety/patientsafetyculture/
hospital/). Since its release,
the survey has been voluntarily used by
hundreds of hospitals in the U.S.
The Hospital SOPS Comparative
Database consists of data from the
AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture. Hospitals in the U.S. are
asked to voluntarily submit data from
the survey to AHRQ, through its
contractor, Westat. The Hospital SOPS
Database (OMB NO. 0935–0162, last
approved on September 26, 2013) was
developed by AHRQ in 2006 in
response to requests from hospitals
interested in knowing how their patient
safety culture survey results compare to
those of other hospitals in their efforts
to improve patient safety.
Rationale for the information
collection. The Hospital SOPS and the
Comparative Database support AHRQ’s
goals of promoting improvements in the
quality and safety of health care in
hospital 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 hospitals,
to facilitate the use of these materials for
hospital patient safety and quality
improvement.
Request for information collection
approval. AHRQ requests that the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
reapprove, under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ’s
collection of information for the AHRQ
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Culture (Hospital SOPS) Comparative
Database; OMB NO. 0935–0162, last
approved on September 26, 2013.
This database will:
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(1) Allow hospitals to compare their
patient safety culture survey results
with those of other hospitals,
(2) provide data to hospitals to
facilitate internal assessment and
learning in the patient safety
improvement process, and
(3) provide supplemental information
to help hospitals 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 and with respect to quality
measurement and improvement. 42
U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
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 hospital 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 hospitals seeking to
voluntarily submit their Hospital SOPS
data to the Hospital SOPS Comparative
Database.
(2) Data Use Agreement—The purpose
of the data use agreement, completed by
the hospital POC, is to state how data
submitted by hospitals will be used and
provides confidentiality assurances.
(3) Hospital Site Information Form—
The purpose of the site information
form is to obtain basic information
about the characteristics of the hospitals
submitting their Hospital SOPS data to
the Hospital SOPS Comparative
Database (e.g. number of providers and
staff, ownership, and teaching status).
The hospital POC completes the form.
(4) Data Files Submission—The
number of submissions to the database
is likely to vary each year because
hospitals do not administer the survey
and submit data every year. Data
submission is typically handled by one
POC who is either a manager or a survey
vendor who contracts with a hospital to
collect its data. POCs submit data on
behalf of 3 hospitals, on average,
because many hospitals are part of a
health system that includes many
hospitals, or the POC is a vendor that is
submitting data for multiple hospitals.
Survey data from the AHRQ Hospital
Survey on Patient Safety Culture is used
to produce three types of products: (1)
A Hospital 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/hospital/hospreports.html); (2) Individual Hospital
Survey Feedback Reports which are
confidential, customized reports
produced for each hospital that submits
data to the database (the number of
reports produced is based on the
number of hospitals submitting each
year); and (3) Research data sets of
individual-level and hospital-level deidentified data to enable researchers to
conduct analyses.
Hospitals are asked to voluntarily
submit their Hospital 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 composites of
patient safety culture, as well as
displaying these results by hospital
characteristics (bed size, teaching status,
ownership) and respondent
characteristics (hospital work area, staff
position, and those with direct
interaction with patients). In addition,
trend data, showing changes in scores
over time, are presented from hospitals
that have submitted to the database
more than once.
Data submitted by hospitals are used
to give each hospital its own customized
survey feedback report that presents the
hospital’s results compared to the latest
comparative database results. If the
hospital submits data in two
consecutive database submission years,
its survey feedback report also presents
trend data, comparing its previous and
most recent data.
Hospitals use the Hospital SOPS,
Comparative Database Reports and
Individual Hospital 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
hospital.
• Identify strengths and areas for
improvement in patient safety culture.
• Examine trends in patient safety
culture change over time.
• Evaluate the cultural impact of
patient safety initiatives and
interventions.
• Facilitate meeting Joint Commission
hospital accreditation standards in
Leadership that require a regular
assessment of hospital patient safety
culture.
• Compare patient safety culture
survey results with other hospitals in
their efforts to improve patient safety
and quality.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in the
database. An estimated 304 POCs, each
representing an average of 3 individual
hospitals each, will complete the
database submission steps and forms
annually. The POCs typically submit
data on behalf of 3 hospitals, on average,
because many hospitals are part of a
multi-hospital system that is submitting
data, or the POC is a vendor that is
submitting data for multiple hospitals.
Completing the registration form will
take about 3 minutes. The Hospital
Information Form is completed by all
POCs for each of their hospitals (304 ×
3 = 912). The total annual burden hours
are estimated to be 410.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to submit their data.
The cost burden is estimated to be
$21,801 annually.
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Number of
responses
per POC
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Eligibility/Registration Form .............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Hospital Information Form ...............................................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
304
304
304
304
1
1
3
1
3/60
3/60
5/60
1
15
15
76
304
Total ..........................................................................................................
1,216
NA
NA
410
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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 Form .............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Hospital Information Form ...............................................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
304
304
304
304
15
15
76
304
$53.17
53.17
53.17
53.17
$798
798
4,041
16,164
Total ..........................................................................................................
1,216
410
NA
21,801
* Wage rates were calculated using the mean hourly wage based on occupational employment and wage estimates from the Dept. of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May 2014 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates NAICS 622000—Hospitals, located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_622000.htm. Wage rate of $53.17 is based on the mean hourly wages for Medical and Health
Services Managers (11–9111).
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 B. Arnold,
Acting Director.
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Common Formats for Reporting on
Health Care Quality and Patient Safety
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability—new
common formats.
AGENCY:
As authorized by the
Secretary of HHS, AHRQ coordinates
the development of sets of common
SUMMARY:
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definitions and reporting formats
(Common Formats) for reporting on
health care quality and patient safety.
The purpose of this notice is to
announce the availability of new
formats for public review and comment,
Common Formats for Event Reporting
for Hospitals Version 2.0.
DATES: May 9, 2016.
ADDRESSES: The Common Formats for
Event Reporting for Hospitals Version
2.0, and the remaining Common
Formats, can be accessed electronically
at the following HHS Web site: https://
www.pso.ahrq.gov/common/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cathryn Bach, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ,
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD
20857; 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 and Quality
Improvement Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C.
299b–21 to b–26, (Patient Safety Act)
and 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 70732–
70814), provide for the formation of
Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs),
which collect, aggregate, and analyze
confidential information regarding the
quality and safety of health care
delivery. The collection of patient safety
work product allows the aggregation of
data that help to identify and address
underlying causal factors of patient
quality and safety problems.
The Patient Safety Act and Patient
Safety Rule establish a framework by
which doctors, hospitals, skilled
nursing facilities, and other health care
providers may assemble information
regarding patient safety events and
quality of care. Information that is
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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 conduct patient
safety activities, which may include
identifying 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 Act and Patient Safety
Rule which can be accessed
electronically at: https://
www.pso.ahrq.gov/legislation/.
Definition of Common Formats
The term ‘‘Common Formats’’ refers
to the common definitions and reporting
formats, specified by AHRQ, that allow
health care providers to collect and
submit standardized information
regarding patient quality and safety to
PSOs and other entities. The formats are
not intended to replace any current
mandatory reporting system,
collaborative/voluntary reporting
system, research-related reporting
system, or other reporting/recording
system; rather the formats are intended
to enhance the ability of health care
providers to report information that is
standardized both clinically and
electronically.
In collaboration with the interagency
Federal Patient Safety Workgroup
(PSWG), the National Quality Forum
(NQF), and the public, AHRQ has
developed Common Formats for three
settings of care—acute care hospitals,
nursing homes, and retail pharmacies—
in order to facilitate standardized data
collection and analysis. The scope of the
formats applies to all patient safety
concerns including: Incidents—patient
safety events that reached the patient,
whether or not there was harm; near
misses or close calls—patient safety
events that did not reach the patient;
and unsafe conditions—circumstances
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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: ``Hospital 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 June 7, 2016.
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
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database
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
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture with OMB approval (OMB NO.
0935-0115; Approved 2/4/2003).
The survey is designed to enable hospitals to assess staff opinions
about patient safety issues, medical errors, and error reporting. The
survey includes 42 items that measure 12 composites of patient safety
culture. AHRQ made the survey publicly available along with a Survey
User's Guide and other toolkit materials in November 2004 on the AHRQ
Web site (located at https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/). Since its release,
the survey has been voluntarily used by hundreds of hospitals in the
U.S.
The Hospital SOPS Comparative Database consists of data from the
AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Hospitals in the U.S.
are asked to voluntarily submit data from the survey to AHRQ, through
its contractor, Westat. The Hospital SOPS Database (OMB NO. 0935-0162,
last approved on September 26, 2013) was developed by AHRQ in 2006 in
response to requests from hospitals interested in knowing how their
patient safety culture survey results compare to those of other
hospitals in their efforts to improve patient safety.
Rationale for the information collection. The Hospital SOPS and the
Comparative Database support AHRQ's goals of promoting improvements in
the quality and safety of health care in hospital 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 hospitals, to facilitate
the use of these materials for hospital patient safety and quality
improvement.
Request for information collection approval. AHRQ requests that the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reapprove, under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ's collection of information for the AHRQ
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (Hospital SOPS) Comparative
Database; OMB NO. 0935-0162, last approved on September 26, 2013.
This database will:
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(1) Allow hospitals to compare their patient safety culture survey
results with those of other hospitals,
(2) provide data to hospitals to facilitate internal assessment and
learning in the patient safety improvement process, and
(3) provide supplemental information to help hospitals 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 and with
respect to quality measurement and improvement. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1)
and (2).
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 hospital 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 hospitals seeking to
voluntarily submit their Hospital SOPS data to the Hospital SOPS
Comparative Database.
(2) Data Use Agreement--The purpose of the data use agreement,
completed by the hospital POC, is to state how data submitted by
hospitals will be used and provides confidentiality assurances.
(3) Hospital Site Information Form--The purpose of the site
information form is to obtain basic information about the
characteristics of the hospitals submitting their Hospital SOPS data to
the Hospital SOPS Comparative Database (e.g. number of providers and
staff, ownership, and teaching status). The hospital POC completes the
form.
(4) Data Files Submission--The number of submissions to the
database is likely to vary each year because hospitals do not
administer the survey and submit data every year. Data submission is
typically handled by one POC who is either a manager or a survey vendor
who contracts with a hospital to collect its data. POCs submit data on
behalf of 3 hospitals, on average, because many hospitals are part of a
health system that includes many hospitals, or the POC is a vendor that
is submitting data for multiple hospitals.
Survey data from the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
is used to produce three types of products: (1) A Hospital 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/hospital/hosp-reports.html); (2) Individual Hospital Survey Feedback Reports
which are confidential, customized reports produced for each hospital
that submits data to the database (the number of reports produced is
based on the number of hospitals submitting each year); and (3)
Research data sets of individual-level and hospital-level de-identified
data to enable researchers to conduct analyses.
Hospitals are asked to voluntarily submit their Hospital 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 composites of patient safety culture, as well
as displaying these results by hospital characteristics (bed size,
teaching status, ownership) and respondent characteristics (hospital
work area, staff position, and those with direct interaction with
patients). In addition, trend data, showing changes in scores over
time, are presented from hospitals that have submitted to the database
more than once.
Data submitted by hospitals are used to give each hospital its own
customized survey feedback report that presents the hospital's results
compared to the latest comparative database results. If the hospital
submits data in two consecutive database submission years, its survey
feedback report also presents trend data, comparing its previous and
most recent data.
Hospitals use the Hospital SOPS, Comparative Database Reports and
Individual Hospital 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 hospital.
Identify strengths and areas for improvement in patient
safety culture.
Examine trends in patient safety culture change over time.
Evaluate the cultural impact of patient safety initiatives
and interventions.
Facilitate meeting Joint Commission hospital accreditation
standards in Leadership that require a regular assessment of hospital
patient safety culture.
Compare patient safety culture survey results with other
hospitals in their efforts to improve patient safety and quality.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate in the database. An estimated 304
POCs, each representing an average of 3 individual hospitals each, will
complete the database submission steps and forms annually. The POCs
typically submit data on behalf of 3 hospitals, on average, because
many hospitals are part of a multi-hospital system that is submitting
data, or the POC is a vendor that is submitting data for multiple
hospitals. Completing the registration form will take about 3 minutes.
The Hospital Information Form is completed by all POCs for each of
their hospitals (304 x 3 = 912). The total annual burden hours are
estimated to be 410.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to submit their data. The cost burden is estimated to
be $21,801 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................... 304 1 3/60 15
Data Use Agreement.............................. 304 1 3/60 15
Hospital Information Form....................... 304 3 5/60 76
Data Files Submission........................... 304 1 1 304
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Total....................................... 1,216 NA NA 410
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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 Form................... 304 15 $53.17 $798
Data Use Agreement.............................. 304 15 53.17 798
Hospital Information Form....................... 304 76 53.17 4,041
Data Files Submission........................... 304 304 53.17 16,164
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Total....................................... 1,216 410 NA 21,801
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* Wage rates were calculated using the mean hourly wage based on occupational employment and wage estimates from
the Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2014 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment
and Wage Estimates NAICS 622000--Hospitals, located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_622000.htm. Wage
rate of $53.17 is based on the mean hourly wages for Medical and Health Services Managers (11-9111).
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 B. Arnold,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 2016-08020 Filed 4-7-16; 8:45 am]
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