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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
ACTION: Notice with comment period
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing efforts to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
requires by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comments on Early Hearing Detection
and Intervention (EDHI) Hearing and
Screening Follow-up Survey.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before December 5, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0095 by any of the following methods:
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Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
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notice of a proposed data collection as
described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
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is 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; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
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the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Early Hearing Detection and
Intervention (EDHI) Hearing and
Screening Follow-up Survey (OMB No.
0920–0733, Expiration 08/30/2016)—
Reinstatement with Change—National
Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Division of Human Development
and Disability, located within NCBDDD,
promotes the health of babies, children,
and adults, with a focus on preventing
birth defects and developmental
disabilities and optimizing the health
outcomes of those with disabilities. As
part of these efforts the Center is
actively involved in addressing the early
identification of hearing loss among
newborns and infants. Congenital
hearing loss is a common birth defect
that affects 1 to 3 per 1,000 live births,
or approximately 12,000 children across
the United States annually.1 2 Studies
have shown that children with a
delayed diagnosis of hearing loss can
experience preventable delays in
speech, language, and cognitive
development.3–5 To ensure children
with hearing loss are identified as soon
as possible, many states and United
States (U.S.) territories have
implemented Early Hearing Detection
and Intervention (EHDI) programs and
enacted laws related to infant hearing
screening. The majority of these EHDI
programs have adopted the ‘‘1–3–6’’
plan, which consists of three core goals:
(1) Screening all infants for hearing loss
before 1 month of age, (2) ensuring
diagnostic audiologic evaluation before
3 months of age for those who do not
pass the screening, and (3) enrollment
in early intervention services before 6
months of age for those identified with
hearing loss.
Federal support for identifying
children with hearing loss began with
the Children’s Health Act of 2000,
which authorized federal programs to
support EHDI activities at the state
level. Since then, funds have been
distributed to states via cooperative
agreements from the CDC and grants
from the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA). States are using
these federal monies to enhance EHDI
programs and develop corresponding
tracking and surveillance systems.
These systems are intended to help
EHDI programs ensure infants and
children are receiving recommended
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hearing screening, follow-up, and
intervention services.
The CDC’s NCBDDD will fund this
work to obtain standardized annual
jurisdictional data related to the number
of children screened for hearing loss,
referred for and receiving follow-up
testing (e.g., diagnostic audiologic
evaluation). As with the original and
reinstated information collection the
overall purpose of this updated survey
is to consistently gather the aggregatelevel data required to assess progress
toward the National EHDI Goals.
Proposed changes for the updated
survey have been made in response to
feedback from respondents and requests
for additional information from state
and national partners. These updates are
intended to further increase the
standardization and completeness of the
data collected and make the survey
easier to complete. These changes
include adding new fields to capture
data about hearing screening conducted
by using one-stage, two-stage, or
blended (both one-stage and two-stage)
screening protocol. In addition, fields
were added to be able to report the
number of occurring homebirths and the
number of infants not documented to
have received recommended screening,
diagnostic and/or intervention services,
due to reasons such as the infant being
adopted, no referral from the Primary
Care Physician (PCP)/Ear-Nose-Throat
(ENT) specialist and/or due to medical
reasons. Several fields have been
removed in order to improve data
quality and better evaluate whether
jurisdictions are meeting the nationwide
benchmarks. The table for reporting
type and severity of hearing loss data
has been updated so that this data can
currently collecting and able to report.
This information is anticipated to
continue to be important in developing
methods to help minimize loss to
follow-up so all children receive
recommended hearing-related services
in a timely manner.
Third, the data will be helpful in
determining to what extent
jurisdictional tracking and surveillance
systems are capturing essential
information related to follow-up
services, identification, and enrollment
in early intervention. It will also be used
by CDC EHDI to identify areas in
jurisdictional EHDI systems that may
require additional modification. This is
anticipated to be helpful in providing
technical support to funded
jurisdictions as well as for assessing the
impact of federal initiatives related to
hearing loss in infants and children.
Fourth, the requested data will aid in
efforts to determine the prevalence of
differing degrees of hearing loss (e.g.,
mild, severe, profound, etc.) among
infants and children.
Information provided by this updated
survey also has the potential to be used
for other purposes. These include
quality improvement activities by
jurisdictional EHDI programs (e.g.,
identifying areas within the EHDI
processes that could benefit from further
development) and providing requested
data for Healthy People 2020, Objective
ENT–VSL–1 on newborn hearing
screening, evaluation, and intervention.
In addition, the aggregate-level data will
continue to be made available online to
other state and federal agencies,
organizations, and the general public.
The total burden hours is 238.
be reported using only the classification
system from the American Speech and
Hearing Association (ASHA). The table
for reporting demographics has also
been updated to include fewer columns,
in order to improve data quality and
data standardization with the previous
sections of the survey.
The collected data will continue to be
used in four key ways. First, it will be
used to determine annual rates of
hearing screening, referral for further
diagnostic testing, loss to follow-up,
incidence of hearing loss in infants, and
enrollment in early intervention. These
data will assist in determining if infants
and children are receiving
recommended EHDI-related services in
a timely fashion. The information is
intended to be made available through
presentations, articles related to EHDI
programs and infant hearing loss, and
online at: www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/
hearingloss/ehdi-data.html.
Second, the data will be used to
determine rates of loss to follow-up
within different stages of the EHDI
process. Aggregated information about
maternal race, ethnicity, education, and
age will be used to help determine
whether rates of loss to follow-up are
correlated with any of these
demographic variables. As with the
most recent reinstatement with change
(2013), the updated survey will
continue to use same set of demographic
data items, which will make it possible
to continue analyzing the association
between factors such as maternal race
and loss to follow-up, maintain
comparability between previous and
future data, and minimize burden on
respondents by continuing to request
the same data that programs are
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Survey
Directions
59
1
10/60
10
EHDI Program State Program Coordinators who return the
survey ...............................................................................
Survey
57
1
240/60
228
Totals ............................................................................
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EHDI Program State Program Coordinators Contacted ......
Number of
respondents
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-0733]; [Docket No. CDC-2016-0095]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS)
ACTION: Notice with comment period
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as requires by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comments on Early Hearing
Detection and Intervention (EDHI) Hearing and Screening Follow-up
Survey.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before December 5, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0095 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instruction for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulation.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read the background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leroy A. Richardson, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of information, and each
reinstatement of previously approved information collection before
submitting the collect to OMB for approval. To comply with this
requirement, we are publishing this notice of a proposed data
collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is 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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire,
install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EDHI) Hearing and
Screening Follow-up Survey (OMB No. 0920-0733, Expiration 08/30/2016)--
Reinstatement with Change--National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Division of Human Development and Disability, located within
NCBDDD, promotes the health of babies, children, and adults, with a
focus on preventing birth defects and developmental disabilities and
optimizing the health outcomes of those with disabilities. As part of
these efforts the Center is actively involved in addressing the early
identification of hearing loss among newborns and infants. Congenital
hearing loss is a common birth defect that affects 1 to 3 per 1,000
live births, or approximately 12,000 children across the United States
annually.1 2 Studies have shown that children with a delayed
diagnosis of hearing loss can experience preventable delays in speech,
language, and cognitive development.3-5 To ensure children
with hearing loss are identified as soon as possible, many states and
United States (U.S.) territories have implemented Early Hearing
Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs and enacted laws related to
infant hearing screening. The majority of these EHDI programs have
adopted the ``1-3-6'' plan, which consists of three core goals: (1)
Screening all infants for hearing loss before 1 month of age, (2)
ensuring diagnostic audiologic evaluation before 3 months of age for
those who do not pass the screening, and (3) enrollment in early
intervention services before 6 months of age for those identified with
hearing loss.
Federal support for identifying children with hearing loss began
with the Children's Health Act of 2000, which authorized federal
programs to support EHDI activities at the state level. Since then,
funds have been distributed to states via cooperative agreements from
the CDC and grants from the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA). States are using these federal monies to enhance
EHDI programs and develop corresponding tracking and surveillance
systems. These systems are intended to help EHDI programs ensure
infants and children are receiving recommended
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hearing screening, follow-up, and intervention services.
The CDC's NCBDDD will fund this work to obtain standardized annual
jurisdictional data related to the number of children screened for
hearing loss, referred for and receiving follow-up testing (e.g.,
diagnostic audiologic evaluation). As with the original and reinstated
information collection the overall purpose of this updated survey is to
consistently gather the aggregate-level data required to assess
progress toward the National EHDI Goals.
Proposed changes for the updated survey have been made in response
to feedback from respondents and requests for additional information
from state and national partners. These updates are intended to further
increase the standardization and completeness of the data collected and
make the survey easier to complete. These changes include adding new
fields to capture data about hearing screening conducted by using one-
stage, two-stage, or blended (both one-stage and two-stage) screening
protocol. In addition, fields were added to be able to report the
number of occurring homebirths and the number of infants not documented
to have received recommended screening, diagnostic and/or intervention
services, due to reasons such as the infant being adopted, no referral
from the Primary Care Physician (PCP)/Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) specialist
and/or due to medical reasons. Several fields have been removed in
order to improve data quality and better evaluate whether jurisdictions
are meeting the nationwide benchmarks. The table for reporting type and
severity of hearing loss data has been updated so that this data can be
reported using only the classification system from the American Speech
and Hearing Association (ASHA). The table for reporting demographics
has also been updated to include fewer columns, in order to improve
data quality and data standardization with the previous sections of the
survey.
The collected data will continue to be used in four key ways.
First, it will be used to determine annual rates of hearing screening,
referral for further diagnostic testing, loss to follow-up, incidence
of hearing loss in infants, and enrollment in early intervention. These
data will assist in determining if infants and children are receiving
recommended EHDI-related services in a timely fashion. The information
is intended to be made available through presentations, articles
related to EHDI programs and infant hearing loss, and online at:
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/hearingloss/ehdi-data.html.
Second, the data will be used to determine rates of loss to follow-
up within different stages of the EHDI process. Aggregated information
about maternal race, ethnicity, education, and age will be used to help
determine whether rates of loss to follow-up are correlated with any of
these demographic variables. As with the most recent reinstatement with
change (2013), the updated survey will continue to use same set of
demographic data items, which will make it possible to continue
analyzing the association between factors such as maternal race and
loss to follow-up, maintain comparability between previous and future
data, and minimize burden on respondents by continuing to request the
same data that programs are currently collecting and able to report.
This information is anticipated to continue to be important in
developing methods to help minimize loss to follow-up so all children
receive recommended hearing-related services in a timely manner.
Third, the data will be helpful in determining to what extent
jurisdictional tracking and surveillance systems are capturing
essential information related to follow-up services, identification,
and enrollment in early intervention. It will also be used by CDC EHDI
to identify areas in jurisdictional EHDI systems that may require
additional modification. This is anticipated to be helpful in providing
technical support to funded jurisdictions as well as for assessing the
impact of federal initiatives related to hearing loss in infants and
children.
Fourth, the requested data will aid in efforts to determine the
prevalence of differing degrees of hearing loss (e.g., mild, severe,
profound, etc.) among infants and children.
Information provided by this updated survey also has the potential
to be used for other purposes. These include quality improvement
activities by jurisdictional EHDI programs (e.g., identifying areas
within the EHDI processes that could benefit from further development)
and providing requested data for Healthy People 2020, Objective ENT-
VSL-1 on newborn hearing screening, evaluation, and intervention. In
addition, the aggregate-level data will continue to be made available
online to other state and federal agencies, organizations, and the
general public.
The total burden hours is 238.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) hours
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EHDI Program State Program Survey 59 1 10/60 10
Coordinators Contacted......... Directions
EHDI Program State Program Survey 57 1 240/60 228
Coordinators who return the
survey.........................
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Leroy A. Richardson
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2016-24132 Filed 10-5-16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4163-18-P
