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or provide usual care (which could
include no access to specific services).
but will not be included in the
systematic review.
Outcomes for Each Key Question
Sharon B. Arnold,
Acting Director.
Key Question 1: Clinical and Economic
Outcomes
• Clinical outcomes such as
mortality, morbidity, function, recovery,
infection, and access to services.
• Economic outcomes such as return
on investment, cost, volume of visits,
and resource use.
Key Question 2: Intermediate Outcomes
• Patient satisfaction, behavior, and
decisions such as completion of
treatment, or satisfaction with less travel
to access health care.
• Provider satisfaction, behavior, and
decisions such as choice of treatment or
antibiotic stewardship.
• Time to diagnosis and time to
treatment.
• Diagnostic concordance or other
measures of agreement between inperson and telehealth consultations.
Key Question 3: Adverse Effects or
Unintended Consequences
• Loss of privacy or breach of data
security.
• Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis.
• Inappropriate treatment.
• Increase in resource costs, negative
return on investment.
Key Question 4: Not Applicable (This is
a Descriptive Question)
Key Question 5: Clinical and Economic
Outcomes (see Key Question 1),
Intermediate Outcomes (see Key
Question 2), and Adverse Effects or
Unintended Consequences (see Key
Question 3).
Timing
• Telehealth consultations can be
used at any point in the diagnosis,
treatment, or management of a patient.
• Outcome measurement needs to
occur after the telehealth consultation.
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Setting
The consultation can involve
providers and patients in any location.
These could include inpatient,
outpatient, or long-term care, and could
be in civilian, Veterans Administration,
or military facilities.
Study Designs
• Comparative studies, including
trials and observational studies.
• Descriptive studies may be used to
inform the decision model as needed
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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 ‘‘Generic
Clearance for the Collection of Data
Through ACTION III Field-Based
Investigations to Improve Health Care
Delivery.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501–3521, AHRQ invites the public to
comment on this proposed information
collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on December 20, 2016 and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
AHRQ did not receive any substantive
comments during this period. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by April 24, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by
email at OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ’s desk
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
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Data Through ACTION III Field-Based
Investigations To Improve Health Care
Delivery
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) is requesting OMB
approval of a generic clearance for
purposes of conducting field-based
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research to improve care delivery in
diverse health care settings. More
specifically, AHRQ seeks this clearance
to support timely and meaningful
answers to research questions
investigated through AHRQ’s ACTION
Program. ACTION III research produces
field-based, stakeholder-informed
knowledge about ways to improve care
delivery, and real-world-driven
implementation and dissemination of
evidence across diverse care settings. A
generic clearance to support expedited
performance of ACTION III research
activities would enable AHRQ to more
efficiently meet agency goals while fully
meeting the intent and requirements of
the Paperwork Reduction Act in a
timely manner.
Collection of the information
described in this request is essential to
supporting AHRQ’s mission, which is to
produce evidence to make health care
safer, higher quality, more accessible,
equitable, and affordable, and to work
within HHS and with other partners to
make sure that the evidence is
understood and used. More specifically,
in support of this mission, AHRQ
initiates and oversees projects with the
following overarching aims:
• Expand knowledge about how
specific changes to processes or
structures of care delivery might
improve care quality;
• Develop and test interventions,
strategies, tools, trainings and guidance
for putting that knowledge into practice;
• Disseminate and implement
evidence-based practices across diverse
care settings.
Method of Collection
Information collections conducted
under this clearance will be collected
via the following methods:
• Interviews—Interviews (telephone
or in-person) will be conducted with
clinical or management staff from
diverse health care settings, patients, or
other providers or recipients of care
with the purposes of expanding
knowledge about how specific changes
to processes or structures of care
delivery might improve care quality;
obtaining stakeholder-informed input
about how and why an intervention or
strategy will or won’t work in a
particular real world setting; identifying
contextual factors that facilitate or
impede implementation of complex
system interventions or evidence-based
practices; and identifying needs and
challenges of intended users of tools
and/or beneficiaries of trainings and
other resources.
• Small discussion groups/focus
groups—Small discussion groups/Focus
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groups will be conducted with
providers or recipients of care from
diverse health care settings with the
purposes of obtaining stakeholderinformed input about how and why an
intervention or strategy is or is not
working in a particular real world
setting and identifying needs and
gaining user/beneficiary feedback on
value and limitations of prototype
redesigned care processes, tools,
resources or trainings.
• Implementation Logs will be used
to track activities, time and resource use
associated with use of tools, trainings or
other resources and to monitor progress
and identify needed revisions to
implementation methods.
• Recruitment and Screening Calls
will be used to identify and enroll
individuals, groups, or organizations
willing to participate in the broader
research study.
• Questionnaires or brief surveys will
be used to capture broad, high level staff
or patient level feedback on experience
with tools, redesigned care processes,
trainings or other resources.
• Cognitive Testing of surveys, Web
sites, or other resources will be used to
support the development of materials
that resonate and can be understood by
intended users.
• Collection of published and internal
documents, performance assessments,
and other data or information that could
provide important contextual
information about the specific settings
of care into which new tools, resources,
training or redesigned care processes
will be introduced.
AHRQ will use the proposed generic
clearance to obtain field-based,
stakeholder-informed input and
feedback about how and why
interventions or strategies designed to
improve care quality (i.e., safety,
effectiveness, patient-centeredness,
timeliness, efficiency, and equity) do or
do not work in the real world.
Information collected under this
clearance would be expected to increase
understanding of how contextual factors
and other key variables might affect the
implementation and effectiveness of
specific strategies, interventions or tools
when utilized in particular settings.
This knowledge would help health care
providers and other decision-makers
consider whether, when and how to use
and adapt such strategies, interventions
or tools to conform to their own needs
and to the distinctive characteristics of
the intended settings. Additionally,
information collected under this
clearance would be expected to increase
AHRQ’s understanding of contextual
variables and other factors that facilitate
or impede dissemination and
implementation of clinical guidelines,
evidence-based practices, and other
research-based findings from the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Institute (PCORI), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), and other partners.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
As described above a variety of
instruments and platforms will be used
to collect information from respondents,
though few, if any, single projects
would be expected to use all the
methods listed.
The average number annual burden
hours per year requested (2,189.5) are
presented in Table 1 below, and is based
on an assumed average of 5 projects per
year (we rounded up the past average of
4.5 projects per year to 5). The
maximum total burden across all three
years is thus 6,568.5 hours.
TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Data collection type
Interviews .........................................................................................................
Focus Groups/Small Discussions ....................................................................
Implementation Logs .......................................................................................
Recruitment and Screening .............................................................................
Cognitive Testing .............................................................................................
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys ..........................................................................
Collection of Internal Documents ....................................................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
375
420
20
139
40
1000
25
2
1.5
8
1
1
1
1
Hours per
response
1
1.5
1
0.5
1
0.2
1
Total ..........................................................................................................
Total burden
hours
750
945
160
69.5
40
200
25
2189.5
TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
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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 ....................................................................
Total burden
hours
250
125
420
20
139
40
1000
25
500
250
945
160
69.5
40
200
25
Total ..........................................................................................................
Average
hourly wage
rate *
a $95.05
b 27.12
c 27.12
c 27.12
a 95.05
c 27.12
c 27.12
a 95.05
Total cost
burden
$47,525.00
6,780.00
25,628.40
4,339.20
6,605.98
1,084.80
5,424.00
2,376.25
99,763.63
* 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.
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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.
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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[Docket Number CDC–2017–0024, NIOSH–
297]
Effect of Stockpiling Conditions on the
Performance of Medical N95
Respirators and High-Level Protective
Surgical Gowns
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for information.
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AGENCY:
The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announces the
request for information about facilities
SUMMARY:
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that stockpile N95 respirators and highlevel protective surgical gowns.
DATES: Electronic or written
submissions must be received by [30
days from FRN posting].
ADDRESSES: You may submit responses,
identified by CDC–2017–0024 and
docket number NIOSH–297, by any of
the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH
Docket Office, 1090 Tusculum Avenue,
MS C–34, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226–1998.
Instructions: All information received
in response to this notice must include
the agency name and docket number
[CDC–2017–0024; NIOSH–297]. All
relevant responses received will be
posted without change to
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or information received, go
to www.regulations.gov. All information
received in response to this notice will
also be available for public examination
and copying at the NIOSH Docket
Office, 1150 Tusculum Avenue, Room
155, Cincinnati, OH 45226–1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kerri Wizner, NIOSH, National Personal
Protective Technology Laboratory,
Research Branch, 626 Cochrans Mill
Road, Building 19A, Pittsburgh, PA
15236, (412) 386–5225, (not a toll free
number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIOSH
seeks information about personal
protective equipment (PPE)
environmental storage conditions and
inventory for federal, state, municipal,
county, and hospital system stockpiles.
Maintaining PPE stockpiles for public
health emergencies is a significant cost
and time investment for these various
entities, which may include purchasing
new products, maintaining inventory
records, and lease or purchase of
environmentally controlled storage
space away from contaminated areas,
dust, sun light, extreme temperatures,
excessive moisture, and damaging
chemicals. The information provided by
respondents to this Notice will be used
to inform a research study design where
N95 respirators and high-protection
level surgical gowns are sampled from
stockpiles and tested against established
performance standards. The research
study will be designed to obtain
scientific data to assess (1) the potential
to extend manufacturer-recommended
shelf life and (2) the effect of common,
albeit sometimes non-ideal, stockpile
conditions on the protections provided
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by respirators and surgical gowns.
NIOSH seeks to sample N95 respirators
and high-protection level surgical
gowns from a variety of stockpiles
representing contemporary storage
conditions from across the nation. To
that end, the information sought in this
Notice is aimed at ensuring that study
findings are broadly applicable to U.S.
stockpiles.
Background: Various entities
stockpile personal protective equipment
(PPE) in preparation for public health
responses to outbreaks of high
consequence infectious diseases such as
SARS, influenza, and Ebola, where PPE
demand may outpace supply.
Stockpiling PPE is a costly endeavor
that includes PPE purchase, storage
space, product rotation over time, and
environmental controls for heat,
humidity, dust, and sunlight. Resource
limitations may lead facilities to
stockpile PPE in environments that do
not meet manufacturer storage
recommendations or exceed shelf life,
increasing the potential for PPE
degradation. Even when resources exist
to store PPE per manufacturer’s
environmental recommendations, the
influence of long-term storage time
alone on PPE performance has been
questioned. Additionally, large
quantities of stockpiled PPE obtained
during previous nationwide responses
may now be exceeding its shelf life and
expected replacement costs will likely
far exceed available budgets. Data is
needed to better understand the
potential impact upon worker health
and safety.
Information Needs: Information is
needed to assist NIOSH in identifying
important factors to focus the research
study design. Information is needed
from facilities that stockpile N95
respirators and high-level protective
surgical gowns for use during public
health emergencies. Please ensure the
type of stockpile you are affiliated with
is included in the responses to any of
the below questions.
1. Please describe the type of
stockpile with which you are affiliated
(e.g., federal, state, county). Please
describe the end users of the stockpiled
products (e.g., healthcare workers,
public).
2. Please describe the extent to which
environmental controls are
implemented and maintained. For
example, does the stockpile employ
controls against humidity, temperature,
sunlight, dust, or chemical exposure?
Please describe how these controls are
implemented, monitored, regularity of
monitoring, and what optimal
conditions are. Available guidance
documents used for the stockpile would
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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 ``Generic Clearance for the Collection of Data Through ACTION
III Field-Based Investigations to Improve Health Care Delivery.'' In
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521, AHRQ
invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on December 20, 2016 and allowed 60 days for
public comment. AHRQ did not receive any substantive comments during
this period. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30
days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by April 24, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by
email at OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ's desk 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
Generic Clearance for the Collection of Data Through ACTION III Field-
Based Investigations To Improve Health Care Delivery
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is requesting
OMB approval of a generic clearance for purposes of conducting field-
based research to improve care delivery in diverse health care
settings. More specifically, AHRQ seeks this clearance to support
timely and meaningful answers to research questions investigated
through AHRQ's ACTION Program. ACTION III research produces field-
based, stakeholder-informed knowledge about ways to improve care
delivery, and real-world-driven implementation and dissemination of
evidence across diverse care settings. A generic clearance to support
expedited performance of ACTION III research activities would enable
AHRQ to more efficiently meet agency goals while fully meeting the
intent and requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act in a timely
manner.
Collection of the information described in this request is
essential to supporting AHRQ's mission, which is to produce evidence to
make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and
affordable, and to work within HHS and with other partners to make sure
that the evidence is understood and used. More specifically, in support
of this mission, AHRQ initiates and oversees projects with the
following overarching aims:
Expand knowledge about how specific changes to processes
or structures of care delivery might improve care quality;
Develop and test interventions, strategies, tools,
trainings and guidance for putting that knowledge into practice;
Disseminate and implement evidence-based practices across
diverse care settings.
Method of Collection
Information collections conducted under this clearance will be
collected via the following methods:
Interviews--Interviews (telephone or in-person) will be
conducted with clinical or management staff from diverse health care
settings, patients, or other providers or recipients of care with the
purposes of expanding knowledge about how specific changes to processes
or structures of care delivery might improve care quality; obtaining
stakeholder-informed input about how and why an intervention or
strategy will or won't work in a particular real world setting;
identifying contextual factors that facilitate or impede implementation
of complex system interventions or evidence-based practices; and
identifying needs and challenges of intended users of tools and/or
beneficiaries of trainings and other resources.
Small discussion groups/focus groups--Small discussion
groups/Focus
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groups will be conducted with providers or recipients of care from
diverse health care settings with the purposes of obtaining
stakeholder-informed input about how and why an intervention or
strategy is or is not working in a particular real world setting and
identifying needs and gaining user/beneficiary feedback on value and
limitations of prototype redesigned care processes, tools, resources or
trainings.
Implementation Logs will be used to track activities, time
and resource use associated with use of tools, trainings or other
resources and to monitor progress and identify needed revisions to
implementation methods.
Recruitment and Screening Calls will be used to identify
and enroll individuals, groups, or organizations willing to participate
in the broader research study.
Questionnaires or brief surveys will be used to capture
broad, high level staff or patient level feedback on experience with
tools, redesigned care processes, trainings or other resources.
Cognitive Testing of surveys, Web sites, or other
resources will be used to support the development of materials that
resonate and can be understood by intended users.
Collection of published and internal documents,
performance assessments, and other data or information that could
provide important contextual information about the specific settings of
care into which new tools, resources, training or redesigned care
processes will be introduced.
AHRQ will use the proposed generic clearance to obtain field-based,
stakeholder-informed input and feedback about how and why interventions
or strategies designed to improve care quality (i.e., safety,
effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and
equity) do or do not work in the real world. Information collected
under this clearance would be expected to increase understanding of how
contextual factors and other key variables might affect the
implementation and effectiveness of specific strategies, interventions
or tools when utilized in particular settings. This knowledge would
help health care providers and other decision-makers consider whether,
when and how to use and adapt such strategies, interventions or tools
to conform to their own needs and to the distinctive characteristics of
the intended settings. Additionally, information collected under this
clearance would be expected to increase AHRQ's understanding of
contextual variables and other factors that facilitate or impede
dissemination and implementation of clinical guidelines, evidence-based
practices, and other research-based findings from the Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), and other partners.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
As described above a variety of instruments and platforms will be
used to collect information from respondents, though few, if any,
single projects would be expected to use all the methods listed.
The average number annual burden hours per year requested (2,189.5)
are presented in Table 1 below, and is based on an assumed average of 5
projects per year (we rounded up the past average of 4.5 projects per
year to 5). The maximum total burden across all three years is thus
6,568.5 hours.
Table 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Data collection type Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interviews...................................... 375 2 1 750
Focus Groups/Small Discussions.................. 420 1.5 1.5 945
Implementation Logs............................. 20 8 1 160
Recruitment and Screening....................... 139 1 0.5 69.5
Cognitive Testing............................... 40 1 1 40
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys.................... 1000 1 0.2 200
Collection of Internal Documents................ 25 1 1 25
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Total....................................... 2189.5
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Table 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate * burden
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Interviews...................................... 250 500 \a\ $95.05 $47,525.00
(Clinicians--line 1; Patients--line 2) 125 250 \b\ 27.12 6,780.00
Focus Groups/Small Discussions.................. 420 945 \c\ 27.12 25,628.40
Implementation Logs............................. 20 160 \c\ 27.12 4,339.20
Recruitment and Screening....................... 139 69.5 \a\ 95.05 6,605.98
Cognitive Testing............................... 40 40 \c\ 27.12 1,084.80
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys.................... 1000 200 \c\ 27.12 5,424.00
Collection of Internal Documents................ 25 25 \a\ 95.05 2,376.25
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Total....................................... 99,763.63
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* 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.
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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.
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. 2017-05839 Filed 3-23-17; 8:45 am]
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