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of electronic health records and
submission via continuity of care
documentation to small/mid-size/large
medical providers and hospital
networks, managed care health plans,
prison-hospitals, and other inpatient,
outpatient, and long-term care settings
that are currently either in-scope or outof-scope of the National Health Care
Surveys. Research on feasibility, data
quality and respondent burden also may
be carried out in the context of
developing new surveys of health care
providers and establishments that are
currently out-of-scope of the National
Health Care Surveys.
Specific motivations for conducting
developmental studies include: (1)
Within the National Ambulatory
Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), new
clinical groups may be expanded to
include dentists, psychologists,
podiatrists, chiropractors, optometrists),
mid-level providers (e.g., physician
assistants, advanced practice nurses,
nurse practitioners, certified nurse
midwives) and allied-health
professionals (e.g., certified nursing
aides, medical assistants, radiology
technicians, laboratory technicians,
pharmacists, dieticians/nutritionists).
Current sampling frames such as those
from the American Medical Association
may be obtained and studied, as well as
frames that are not currently in use by
NAMCS, such as state and
organizational listings of other licensed
providers. (2) Within the National Study
of Long-Term Care Providers, additional
new frames may be sought and
evaluated and data items from home
care agencies, long-term care hospitals,
and facilities exclusively serving
individuals with intellectual/
developmental disability may be tested.
Similarly, data may be obtained from
lists compiled by states and other
organizations. Data about the facilities
as well as residents and their visits will
be investigated. (3) In the inpatient and
outpatient care settings, the National
Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) and the
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey (NHAMCS) may investigate
the addition of facility and patient
information especially as it relates to
insurance and electronic medical
records.
The National Health Care Surveys
collect critical, accurate data that are
used to produce reliable national
estimates—and in recent years (when
budget allows), state-level estimates—of
clinical services and of the providers
who delivered those services in
inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory, and
long-term care settings. The data from
these surveys are used by providers,
policy makers and researchers to
address important topics of interest,
including the quality and disparities of
care among populations, epidemiology
of medical conditions, diffusion of
technologies, effects of policies and
practice guidelines, and changes in
health care over time. Research studies
need to be conducted to improve
existing and proposed survey design
and procedures of the National Health
Care Surveys, as well as to evaluate
alternative data collection approaches
particularly due to the expansion of
electronic health record use, and to
develop new sample frames of currently
out-of-scope providers and settings of
care. There is no cost to respondents
other than their time to participate.
Average burdens are designed to cover
15–40 min interviews as well as 90
minute focus groups, longer on-site
visits, and situations where
organizations may be preparing
electronic data files. The total estimated
annualized burden is 7,085 hours.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of research
Interviews, surveys,
ments (in person,
electronic mail).
Interviews, surveys,
ments (in person,
electronic mail).
Number of
respondents
Respondents
focus groups, experiphone, internet, postal/
Health Care Providers and Business entities
focus groups, experiphone, internet, postal/
Health Care Providers, State/local government agencies, and business entities.
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.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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Centers for Disease Control and
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Proposed Data Collection 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.
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AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
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2.5
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on the proposal to revise the
generic information collection plan
titled ‘‘Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery (NCHHSTP).’’
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before May 8, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0020 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
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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 Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit public comment
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: omb@cdc.gov.
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, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection 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; (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
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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
Generic Clearance for the Collection
of Qualitative Feedback on Agency
Service Delivery (OMB Control Number
0920–1027, Expiration Date, 8/31/
2017)—Revision—Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), National
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis,
STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
Background and Brief Description
The information collection activity
provides a means to garner qualitative
customer and stakeholder feedback in
an efficient, timely manner, in
accordance with the Federal
government’s commitment to improving
service delivery. By qualitative feedback
we mean information that provides
useful insights on perceptions and
opinions, but are not statistical surveys
that yield quantitative results that can
be generalized to the population of
study.
This feedback will provide insights
into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and
expectations, provide an early warning
of issues with service, or focus attention
on areas where communication, training
or changes in operations might improve
delivery of products or services. These
collections will allow for ongoing,
collaborative and actionable
communications between the Agency
and its customers and stakeholders. It
will also allow feedback to contribute
directly to the improvement of program
management.
The solicitation of feedback will target
areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of
information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. Responses
will be assessed to plan and inform
efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency’s services
will be unavailable.
CDC/ATSDR will only submit a
collection for approval under this
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generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained;
• Information gathered is intended to
be used only internally for general
service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the
agency (if released, the agency must
indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance provides useful information,
but it does not yield data that can be
generalized to the overall population.
This type of generic clearance for
qualitative information will not be used
for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably
actionable results, such as monitoring
trends over time or documenting
program performance. Such data uses
require more rigorous designs that
address: The target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
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As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
Households, Businesses, Organizations,
and/or State, Local or Tribal
Government. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time. The
estimated annualized burden hours for
this data collection activity are 9,690.
This is a revision to the previously
approved collection to reduce the
burden hours from 12,400 to 9,690
hours as a result of the previous usage
and anticipated future usage of this
Generic Information Collection.
Respondents will be screened and
selected from Individuals and
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of collection
Annual
frequency
per response
Hours
per response
Total hours
Online surveys .................................................................................................
Discussion Groups ...........................................................................................
Focus groups ...................................................................................................
Web site/app usability testing ..........................................................................
Interviews .........................................................................................................
10,500
280
640
2,000
800
1
1
1
1
1
30/60
2
2
30/60
2
5,250
560
1280
1,000
1,600
Totals ........................................................................................................
14,220
........................
........................
9,690
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.
Advisory Committee Information Line,
1–800–741–8138 (301–443–0572 in the
Washington, DC area). Please call the
Information Line for up-to-date
information on this meeting.
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Federal Register of January 11, 2017 (82
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meeting of the Drug Safety and Risk
Management Advisory Committee and
the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug
Products Advisory Committee would be
held on March 13–14, 2017. On page
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Products Advisory Committee;
Amendment of Notice
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) is announcing an
amendment to the notice of the joint
meeting of the Drug Safety and Risk
Management Advisory Committee and
the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug
Products Advisory Committee. This
meeting was announced in the Federal
Register of January 11, 2017. The
amendment is being made to reflect a
change in the ADDRESSES portion of the
document. There are no other changes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephanie L. Begansky, Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, Food and
Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 31, Rm. 2417,
Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 301–
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the Tommy Douglas Conference Center,
10000 New Hampshire Ave., Silver
Spring, MD 20903. The conference
center’s telephone number is 240–645–
4000.
This notice is issued under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. app. 2) and 21 CFR part 14,
relating to the advisory committees.
ADDRESSES:
Dated: March 3, 2017.
Janice M. Soreth,
Associate Commissioner for Special Medical
Programs.
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Notice To Propose the Re-Designation
of the Service Delivery Area for the
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian
Township
Indian Health Service, HHS.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
This notice advises the public
that the Indian Health Service (IHS)
proposes to expand the geographic
boundaries of the Purchased/Referred
Care (PRC) Service Delivery Area (SDA)
for the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s
reservation at Indian Township
(Passamaquoddy at Indian Township or
Tribe) in Maine. This notice does not
propose to change or expand the PRC
SDA for the Tribe’s Pleasant Point
reservation. This notice only relates to
the expansion of the Tribe’s PRC SDA
for the Indian Township reservation.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
April 7, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
in one of four ways detailed below.
However, we cannot accept comments
by facsimile (FAX) transmission due to
staff and resource limitations. Please
choose one method below:
1. Electronically. You may submit
electronic comments on this regulation
to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ instructions.
2. By regular mail. You may mail
written comments to the following
address ONLY: Betty Gould, Regulations
Officer, Indian Health Service, 5600
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-17-1027; Docket No. CDC-2017-0020]
Proposed Data Collection 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 effort 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 required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on the proposal to
revise the generic information collection plan titled ``Generic
Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery (NCHHSTP).''
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 8, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0020 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review
Office, Centers for Disease Control and
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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 Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit public comment through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
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, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information
collection before submitting the collection 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; (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
Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery (OMB Control Number 0920-1027, Expiration Date,
8/31/2017)--Revision--Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP).
Background and Brief Description
The information collection activity provides a means to garner
qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely
manner, in accordance with the Federal government's commitment to
improving service delivery. By qualitative feedback we mean information
that provides useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not
statistical surveys that yield quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and expectations, provide an early warning of
issues with service, or focus attention on areas where communication,
training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or
services. These collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between the Agency and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
The solicitation of feedback will target areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of issues with service delivery.
Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to the public. If this
information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency's services will be unavailable.
CDC/ATSDR will only submit a collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:
The collections are voluntary;
The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal Government;
The collections are non-controversial and do not raise
issues of concern to other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions
from respondents who have experience with the program or may have
experience with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected
only to the extent necessary and is not retained;
Information gathered is intended to be used only
internally for general service improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency (if
released, the agency must indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions; and
Information gathered will yield qualitative information;
the collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically
reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the
population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic clearance provides useful
information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address: The target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
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As a general matter, information collections will not result in any
new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask
questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes,
religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered
private.
This is a revision to the previously approved collection to reduce
the burden hours from 12,400 to 9,690 hours as a result of the previous
usage and anticipated future usage of this Generic Information
Collection. Respondents will be screened and selected from Individuals
and Households, Businesses, Organizations, and/or State, Local or
Tribal Government. There is no cost to respondents other than their
time. The estimated annualized burden hours for this data collection
activity are 9,690.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Annual
Type of collection Number of frequency per Hours per Total hours
respondents response response
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Online surveys.................................. 10,500 1 30/60 5,250
Discussion Groups............................... 280 1 2 560
Focus groups.................................... 640 1 2 1280
Web site/app usability testing.................. 2,000 1 30/60 1,000
Interviews...................................... 800 1 2 1,600
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Totals...................................... 14,220 .............. .............. 9,690
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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.
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