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maximum total burden across all three
years is thus 6568.5 hours.
TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Data collection type
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Interviews .........................................................................................................
Focus Groups/Small Discussions ....................................................................
Implementation Logs .......................................................................................
Recruitment and Screening .............................................................................
Cognitive Testing .............................................................................................
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys ..........................................................................
Collection of Internal Documents ....................................................................
375
420
20
139
40
1,000
25
2
1.5
8
1
1
1
1
1
1.5
1
0.5
1
0.2
1
750
945
160
69.5
40
200
25
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
2,189.5
TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly
wage rate *
Total cost
burden
Interviews .........................................................................................................
(Clinicians—line 1; Patients—line 2) ...............................................................
Focus Groups/Small Discussions ....................................................................
Implementation Logs .......................................................................................
Recruitment and Screening .............................................................................
Cognitive Testing .............................................................................................
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys ..........................................................................
Collection of Internal Documents ....................................................................
250
125
420
20
139
40
1000
25
500
250
945
160
69.5
40
200
25
a $95.05
a 95.05
$47,525.00
6780.00
25,628.40
4,339.20
6,605.98
1,084.80
5,424.00
2,376.25
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
99,763.63
b 27.12
c 27.12
c 27.12
a 95.05
c 27.12
c 27.12
* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2015 ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics:’’
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
a Based on the mean wages for 29–1069 Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
b Based on the mean wages for 00–0000 All Occupations.
c Based on the mean wages for 29–9099 Miscellaneous Health Practitioners and Technical Workers: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Workers, All Other.
Using average wage rates for relevant
job categories from 2016 BLS data, the
total annual costs associated with these
data collections per year are
$116,746.13 as shown in Table 2 above,
for a total cost for all three years of
$350,238.39.
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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
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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,
Deputy Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
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).
AGENCY:
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Notice of Availability—New
Common Formats.
ACTION:
As authorized by the
Secretary of HHS, AHRQ coordinates
the development of sets of common
definitions and reporting formats
(Common Formats) for reporting on
health care quality and patient safety.
The purpose of this notice is to
announce the release of the Common
Formats—Community Pharmacy
Version 1.0.
DATES: Ongoing public input.
ADDRESSES: The Common Formats—
Community Pharmacy Version 1.0 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: Dr.
Barbara Choo, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 06N100B,
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.
SUMMARY:
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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
safety and quality issues.
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
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 Common
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
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settings of care—acute care hospitals,
skilled nursing facilities, and
community pharmacies—in order to
facilitate standardized data collection
and analysis. The scope of Common
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
that increase the probability of a patient
safety event.
AHRQ’s Common Formats for patient
safety event reporting include:
• Event descriptions (definitions of
patient safety events, near misses, and
unsafe conditions to be reported);
• Specifications for patient safety
aggregate reports that derive from event
descriptions;
• Delineation of data elements and
algorithms to be used for collection of
adverse event data to populate the
reports; and
• Technical specifications for
electronic data collection and reporting.
The technical specifications promote
standardization of collected patient
safety event information by specifying
rules for data collection and submission,
as well as by providing guidance for
how and when to create data elements,
their valid values, conditional and go-to
logic, and reports. These specifications
will ensure that data collected by PSOs
and other entities have comparable
clinical meaning. They also provide
direction to software developers, so that
the Common Formats can be
implemented electronically, and to
PSOs, so that the Common Formats can
be submitted electronically to the PSO
Privacy Protection Center (PPC) for data
de-identification and transmission to
the Network of Patient Safety Databases.
Common Formats Development
In anticipation of the need for
Common Formats, AHRQ began their
development by creating an inventory of
functioning private and public sector
patient safety reporting systems. This
inventory provided an evidence base to
inform construction of the Common
Formats. The inventory included many
systems from the private sector,
including prominent academic settings,
hospital systems, and international
reporting systems (e.g., from the United
Kingdom and the Commonwealth of
Australia). In addition, virtually all
major Federal patient safety reporting
systems were included, such as those
from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), the Department
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of Defense (DoD), and the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA).
Since February 2005, AHRQ has
convened the PSWG to assist AHRQ
with developing and maintaining the
Common Formats. The PSWG includes
major health agencies within HHS—
CDC, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, FDA, Health Resources and
Services Administration, Indian Health
Service, National Institutes of Health,
National Library of Medicine, Office of
the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology, Office of
Public Health and Science, and
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration—as well as the
DoD and VA.
Since the initial release of the
Common Formats in August 2008,
AHRQ has regularly revised the formats
based upon public comment. First,
AHRQ reviews existing patient safety
practices and event reporting systems.
Then, AHRQ works in collaboration
with the PSWG and Federal subject
matter experts to develop and draft the
Common Formats. In addition, the
PSWG assists AHRQ with assuring the
consistency of definitions/formats with
those of relevant government agencies
as refinement of the Common Formats
continues. Next, AHRQ solicits feedback
from private sector organizations and
individuals. Finally, based upon the
feedback received, AHRQ further revises
the Common Formats.
Participation by the private sector in
the development and subsequent
revision of the Common Formats is
achieved through working with the
NQF. The Agency engages the NQF, a
non-profit organization focused on
health care quality, to solicit comments
and advice regarding proposed versions
of the Common Formats. AHRQ began
this process with the NQF in 2008,
receiving feedback on AHRQ’s 0.1 Beta
release of the Common Formats for
Event Reporting—Hospital. After
receiving public comment, the NQF
solicits the review and advice of its
Common Formats Expert Panel and
subsequently provides feedback to
AHRQ. The Agency then revises and
refines the Common Formats and issues
them as a production version. AHRQ
has continued to employ this process for
all subsequent versions of the Common
Formats.
In 2014, representatives from U.S.
community pharmacies approached
AHRQ regarding collaboration to
develop Common Formats for the
community pharmacy setting.
Development of the new Formats began
using the existing AHRQ Common
Formats Medication module from the
AHRQ Common Formats for Event
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Reporting—Hospital, Version 1.2, as a
starting point. AHRQ, in conjunction
with community pharmacy
representatives, designed these new
formats to facilitate improved detection
and understanding of medicationrelated events originating in
pharmacies. If implemented as
specified, the Common Formats—
Community Pharmacy Version 1.0 will
allow aggregation of medication-related
data across different pharmacy
providers.
On October 6, 2015, AHRQ
announced the availability of the—
Common Formats Retail Pharmacy
Version 0.1 Beta—for review and
comment in the Federal Register (80 FR
60385–60387). After obtaining feedback
from both the private and public sectors,
the Agency finalized the format and
renamed it Common Formats—
Community Pharmacy Version 1.0. All
elements—including the event
description, aggregate reports, data
elements and algorithms, and technical
specifications—will be posted at the
PSOPPC Web site: https://
www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web.
More information on the Common
Formats can be obtained through
AHRQ’s PSO Web site: https://
www.pso.ahrq.gov/.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Common Formats for Reporting on Health Care Quality and Patient
Safety
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of Availability--New Common Formats.
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SUMMARY: As authorized by the Secretary of HHS, AHRQ coordinates the
development of sets of common definitions and reporting formats (Common
Formats) for reporting on health care quality and patient safety. The
purpose of this notice is to announce the release of the Common
Formats--Community Pharmacy Version 1.0.
DATES: Ongoing public input.
ADDRESSES: The Common Formats--Community Pharmacy Version 1.0 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: Dr. Barbara Choo, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 06N100B,
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.
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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 safety and quality issues.
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 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 Common 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, skilled nursing facilities, and community pharmacies--
in order to facilitate standardized data collection and analysis. The
scope of Common 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 that increase the probability of a patient safety event.
AHRQ's Common Formats for patient safety event reporting include:
Event descriptions (definitions of patient safety events,
near misses, and unsafe conditions to be reported);
Specifications for patient safety aggregate reports that
derive from event descriptions;
Delineation of data elements and algorithms to be used for
collection of adverse event data to populate the reports; and
Technical specifications for electronic data collection
and reporting.
The technical specifications promote standardization of collected
patient safety event information by specifying rules for data
collection and submission, as well as by providing guidance for how and
when to create data elements, their valid values, conditional and go-to
logic, and reports. These specifications will ensure that data
collected by PSOs and other entities have comparable clinical meaning.
They also provide direction to software developers, so that the Common
Formats can be implemented electronically, and to PSOs, so that the
Common Formats can be submitted electronically to the PSO Privacy
Protection Center (PPC) for data de-identification and transmission to
the Network of Patient Safety Databases.
Common Formats Development
In anticipation of the need for Common Formats, AHRQ began their
development by creating an inventory of functioning private and public
sector patient safety reporting systems. This inventory provided an
evidence base to inform construction of the Common Formats. The
inventory included many systems from the private sector, including
prominent academic settings, hospital systems, and international
reporting systems (e.g., from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
of Australia). In addition, virtually all major Federal patient safety
reporting systems were included, such as those from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA).
Since February 2005, AHRQ has convened the PSWG to assist AHRQ with
developing and maintaining the Common Formats. The PSWG includes major
health agencies within HHS--CDC, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, FDA, Health Resources and Services Administration, Indian
Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of
Medicine, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology, Office of Public Health and Science, and Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration--as well as the DoD and VA.
Since the initial release of the Common Formats in August 2008,
AHRQ has regularly revised the formats based upon public comment.
First, AHRQ reviews existing patient safety practices and event
reporting systems. Then, AHRQ works in collaboration with the PSWG and
Federal subject matter experts to develop and draft the Common Formats.
In addition, the PSWG assists AHRQ with assuring the consistency of
definitions/formats with those of relevant government agencies as
refinement of the Common Formats continues. Next, AHRQ solicits
feedback from private sector organizations and individuals. Finally,
based upon the feedback received, AHRQ further revises the Common
Formats.
Participation by the private sector in the development and
subsequent revision of the Common Formats is achieved through working
with the NQF. The Agency engages the NQF, a non-profit organization
focused on health care quality, to solicit comments and advice
regarding proposed versions of the Common Formats. AHRQ began this
process with the NQF in 2008, receiving feedback on AHRQ's 0.1 Beta
release of the Common Formats for Event Reporting--Hospital. After
receiving public comment, the NQF solicits the review and advice of its
Common Formats Expert Panel and subsequently provides feedback to AHRQ.
The Agency then revises and refines the Common Formats and issues them
as a production version. AHRQ has continued to employ this process for
all subsequent versions of the Common Formats.
In 2014, representatives from U.S. community pharmacies approached
AHRQ regarding collaboration to develop Common Formats for the
community pharmacy setting. Development of the new Formats began using
the existing AHRQ Common Formats Medication module from the AHRQ Common
Formats for Event
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Reporting--Hospital, Version 1.2, as a starting point. AHRQ, in
conjunction with community pharmacy representatives, designed these new
formats to facilitate improved detection and understanding of
medication-related events originating in pharmacies. If implemented as
specified, the Common Formats--Community Pharmacy Version 1.0 will
allow aggregation of medication-related data across different pharmacy
providers.
On October 6, 2015, AHRQ announced the availability of the--Common
Formats Retail Pharmacy Version 0.1 Beta--for review and comment in the
Federal Register (80 FR 60385-60387). After obtaining feedback from
both the private and public sectors, the Agency finalized the format
and renamed it Common Formats--Community Pharmacy Version 1.0. All
elements--including the event description, aggregate reports, data
elements and algorithms, and technical specifications--will be posted
at the PSOPPC Web site: https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web.
More information on the Common Formats can be obtained through
AHRQ's PSO Web site: https://www.pso.ahrq.gov/.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director.
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