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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN FOR THE 2018–2019 MEPS–IC—Continued
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total ..........................................................................................................
Total burden
hours
78,898
Average
hourly
wage rate *
22,952
na
Total cost
burden
733,776
* Based upon the mean hourly wage for Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists occupation code 13–1141, at https://
www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes131141.htm (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
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,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2017–15884 Filed 7–27–17; 8:45 am]
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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.
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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: ‘‘The
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery.’’
SUMMARY:
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This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register titled ‘‘The AHRQ Safety
Program for Enhancing Surgical Care
and Recovery,’’ on May 18, 2017 and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
AHRQ did not receive any substantive
comments. The purpose of this notice is
to allow an additional 30 days for public
comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by August 28, 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
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
The AHRQ Safety Program for
Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
is a quality improvement project that
aims to provide technical assistance to
hospitals to help them implement
evidence-based practices to improve
outcomes and prevent complications
among patients who undergo surgery.
Enhanced recovery pathways are a
constellation of preoperative,
intraoperative, and postoperative
practices that decrease complications
and accelerate recovery. A number of
studies and meta-analyses have
demonstrated successful results. In
order to facilitate broader adoption of
these evidence-based practices among
U.S. hospitals, this AHRQ project will
adapt the Comprehensive Unit-based
Safety Program (CUSP), which has been
demonstrated to be an effective
approach to reducing other patient
harms, to enhanced recovery of surgical
patients. The approach uses a
combination of clinical and cultural
(i.e., technical and adaptive)
intervention components which include
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promoting leadership and frontline staff
engagement, close teamwork among
surgeons, anesthesia providers, and
nurses, as well as enhancing patient
communication and engagement.
Interested hospitals will voluntarily
participate.
This project has the following goals:
• Improve outcomes of surgical
patients by disseminating and
supporting implementation of evidencebased enhanced recovery practices
within the CUSP framework.
• Develop a bundle of technical and
adaptive interventions and associated
tools and educational materials to
support implementation.
• Provide technical assistance and
training to hospitals for implementing
enhanced recovery practices.
• Assess the adoption, and evaluate
the effectiveness of, the intervention
among the participating hospitals.
This project is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor Johns
Hopkins University; with subcontractors
Westat, and the American College of
Surgeons. The AHRQ Safety Program for
Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
is being undertaken pursuant to AHRQ’s
mission to enhance the quality,
appropriateness, and effectiveness of
health services, and access to such
services, through the establishment of a
broad base of scientific research and
through the promotion of improvements
in clinical and health systems practices,
including the prevention of diseases and
other health conditions. 42 U.S.C. 299.
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the
following data collections will be
implemented:
(1) Safety Culture Survey. Hospitals
will assess the impact of participation in
the project on perioperative safety
culture by having their staff members
who will be part of the enhanced
recovery program complete a survey
adapted from the AHRQ Surveys on
Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) at the
beginning and end of the program. The
hospital’s enhanced recovery project
team will receive their survey results
and then debrief their staff on their
safety culture and identify opportunities
for further improvement. The national
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project team will provide technical
assistance for this effort. Participating
hospitals will promote awareness of the
survey among their staff, coordinate
implementation of the survey,
encourage and provide staff the time to
complete the survey, and organize a
local debrief of the reports of their
hospital’s results. The national project
team will assist this effort by providing
an electronic portal for hospital staff to
anonymously complete the survey and
by analyzing the data and sending a
report to the hospital. Data will also be
analyzed in aggregate across all
participating hospitals to evaluate the
impact of the overall quality
improvement effort on measured safety
culture.
(2) Patient Experience Survey.
Hospitals will also assess the impact of
participation in the project on patients’
experience with care. This will be done
via administration of a patient
experience survey to patients
discharged after a qualifying surgery.
Patients will receive a preimplementation assessment of patient
experience after a qualifying surgery
and a post-implementation assessment
of patient experience will be
administered to patients who were
treated the enhanced recovery program
at participating hospitals. The survey
will be administered by the national
project team. Hospitals will provide
patient contact information to the
project team after execution of a data
use agreement. This information will be
provided to the national project team to
send the survey to patients on behalf of
the hospital. The national project team
will provide a summative report to each
hospital with the hospital’s results to
promote additional local quality
improvement work. Data will also be
analyzed in aggregate across all
participating hospitals to evaluate the
impact of the overall quality
improvement effort on patient
experience of care.
(3) Readiness and Implementation
Assessments: Semi-structured
qualitative interviews. Semi-structured
qualitative interviews will be conducted
with key stakeholders at participating
hospitals (e.g., project leads, physician
project champions, etc.). These include
a readiness assessment conducted after
a hospital’s enrollment in the project
and an implementation assessment
conducted after a period of
implementation. The readiness
assessment will help identify which, if
any, technical components of the
enhanced surgical care and recovery
intervention already exist at the
hospital, project management and
resources, clinician engagement,
leadership engagement and potential
barriers and facilitators to
implementation. The implementation
assessment will evaluate what elements
of the enhanced recovery practices have
been adopted, resources invested, team
participation, major barriers (e.g.,
medications, equipment, trained
personnel), and leadership
participation. These assessments will
help identify training needs of hospitals
and inform the national team’s
approach. In addition, the results will
inform the national team’s
understanding of local adaptations of
the intervention and the degree to
which intervention fidelity impacts
changes in outcomes.
(4) Site visits. Semi-structured site
visits will be conducted at a subset of
participating hospitals. Findings will
help inform the national project
implementation strategy. Information
from these visits will be critical in
understanding if and how team and/or
leadership issues may affect
implementation of enhanced recovery
practices, including how this may differ
across surgical services. Interviews will
help uncover and clarify misalignments
in roles, needed time and resources, best
practices, and potential enablers of and
barriers to enhanced surgical care and
recovery implementation. Site visits
will be conducted at approximately 4
hospitals per year, and each will be 1
day long. The types of hospital
personnel anticipated being involved in
part or all of the site visit include senior
leadership, perioperative leadership,
and patient safety and quality staff.
Participating hospitals will receive a
structured debriefing and brief summary
report at the end of the one-day visit.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Safety culture survey .......................................................................................
Patient experience survey ...............................................................................
Readiness and Implementation assessment ...................................................
Site visits ..........................................................................................................
12,000
1,800
720
40
1
1
1
1
0.25
0.37
1
8
3,000
666
720
320
Total ..........................................................................................................
14,560
N/A
N/A
4,706
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
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Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly
wage rate *
Total cost
burden
Safety culture survey .......................................................................................
Safety culture survey .......................................................................................
Patient experience survey ...............................................................................
Readiness and Implementation assessment ...................................................
Readiness and Implementation assessment ...................................................
Site visits ..........................................................................................................
Site Visits .........................................................................................................
6,000
6,000
1,800
360
360
20
20
1,500
1,500
666
360
360
160
160
a $101.04
c 52.58
$151,560
52,050
15,891
36,374
18,929
16,166
8,413
Total ..........................................................................................................
14,560
4,706
N/A
299,383
b 34.70
d 23.86
a 101.04
c 52.58
a 101.04
National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2016 ‘‘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 29–1060 Physicians and Surgeons.
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b Based
c Based
d Based
on the mean wages for 29–1141 Registered Nurse.
on the mean wages for 11–9111 Medical and Health Services Managers.
on the mean wages for 00–0000 All Occupations.
DATES:
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,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2017–15885 Filed 7–27–17; 8:45 am]
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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.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
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
‘‘Expanding the Comprehensive Unitbased Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce
Central Line-Associated Blood Stream
Infections (CLABSI) and CatheterAssociated Urinary Tract Infections
(CAUTI) in Intensive Care Units (ICU)
with Persistently Elevated Infection
Rates.’’
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SUMMARY:
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Comments on this notice must be
received by September 26, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
include the national implementation of
CUSP for CAUTI in hospitals across the
United States. This effort was carried
out under an ACTION II contract with
HRET, in partnership with Johns
Hopkins University and the Michigan
Hospital Association.
As part of the Department of Health
and Human Services National Action
Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated
Infections, AHRQ has supported the
implementation and adoption of the
CUSP for CLABSI and CUSP for CAUTI,
and is applying the principles and
concepts that have been learned from
these HAI reduction efforts to ICUs with
persistently elevated infection rates.
Proposed Project
Results of Implementation of CUSP for
CLABSI and CAUTI
The nationwide CUSP for CLABSI
project implemented CUSP with teams
at more than 1,100 adult ICUs in 44
states over a 4-year period. ICUs
participating in this project reduced the
rate of CLABSIs nationally from 1.915
infections per 1,000 central line days to
1.133 infections per 1,000 line days, an
overall reduction of 41 percent.
However, not all ICUs performed
equally well.
The CUSP for CAUTI project
implemented CUSP in nine cohorts,
representing over 1,600 hospital units in
over 1,200 hospitals located across 40
states, the District of Columbia, and
Puerto Rico. Inpatient CAUTI rates in
non-ICUs were decreased by 30%.
However, CAUTI rates in ICUs were not
reduced significantly.
In other words, while the overall
results of the implementation of CUSP
for CLABSI and CUSP for CAUTI have
shown remarkable progress, not all ICUs
in the projects have achieved the
intended rate reductions, nor have all
ICUs participated in the two projects.
Moreover, a significant number of
institutions and ICUs continue to have
persistently elevated infection rates.
There are institutions that have varying
rates of infections within the same
institution, indicating that infection
control is often a unit-based issue.
In sum, despite the significant overall
reductions in CLABSI and CAUTI rates
that have been achieved in these two
projects, there is evidence that ICUs
have generally faced challenges in
reducing CAUTI rates, and that many
hospitals still are not where they should
be in CLABSI rates. Modified
approaches and strategies for the CUSP
intervention need to be developed and
implemented to reach ICUs with
Expanding the Comprehensive UnitBased Safety Program (CUSP) To
Reduce Central Line-Associated Blood
Stream Infections (CLABSI) and
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract
Infections (CAUTI) in Intensive Care
Units (ICU) With Persistently Elevated
Infection Rates
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
Healthcare-associated infections, or
HAIs, are a highly significant cause of
illness and death for patients in the U.S.
health care system. At any given time,
HAIs affect one out of every 25 hospital
inpatients. More than a million of these
infections occur across our health care
system every year, leading to significant
patient harm and the annual loss of tens
of thousands of lives, and costing
billions of dollars each year. Some of
the most prevalent HAIs include:
Surgical site infections, catheterassociated urinary tract infections
(CAUTI), central-line associated blood
stream infections (CLABSI), and
ventilator-associated pneumonia. It is
estimated that CAUTIs affect
approximately 250,000 hospital patients
per year, and approximately 40,000
CLABSI cases occur annually with a
mortality rate from 12 to 25 percent.
From 2008–2012, AHRQ supported
the National Implementation of the
Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety
Program (CUSP) to Reduce Central LineAssociated Blood Stream Infections
(under an ACTION contract with the
Health Research and Educational Trust
(HRET), in partnership with Johns
Hopkins University and the Michigan
Hospital Association. From 2011–2015,
AHRQ expanded its CUSP efforts to
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[FR Doc No: 2017-15885]
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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: ``The AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and
Recovery.''
This proposed information collection was previously published in
the Federal Register titled ``The AHRQ Safety Program for Enhancing
Surgical Care and Recovery,'' on May 18, 2017 and allowed 60 days for
public comment. AHRQ did not receive any substantive comments. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public
comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by August 28, 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
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information
collection. The AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and
Recovery is a quality improvement project that aims to provide
technical assistance to hospitals to help them implement evidence-based
practices to improve outcomes and prevent complications among patients
who undergo surgery. Enhanced recovery pathways are a constellation of
preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative practices that decrease
complications and accelerate recovery. A number of studies and meta-
analyses have demonstrated successful results. In order to facilitate
broader adoption of these evidence-based practices among U.S.
hospitals, this AHRQ project will adapt the Comprehensive Unit-based
Safety Program (CUSP), which has been demonstrated to be an effective
approach to reducing other patient harms, to enhanced recovery of
surgical patients. The approach uses a combination of clinical and
cultural (i.e., technical and adaptive) intervention components which
include promoting leadership and frontline staff engagement, close
teamwork among surgeons, anesthesia providers, and nurses, as well as
enhancing patient communication and engagement. Interested hospitals
will voluntarily participate.
This project has the following goals:
Improve outcomes of surgical patients by disseminating and
supporting implementation of evidence-based enhanced recovery practices
within the CUSP framework.
Develop a bundle of technical and adaptive interventions
and associated tools and educational materials to support
implementation.
Provide technical assistance and training to hospitals for
implementing enhanced recovery practices.
Assess the adoption, and evaluate the effectiveness of,
the intervention among the participating hospitals.
This project is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor
Johns Hopkins University; with subcontractors Westat, and the American
College of Surgeons. The AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical
Care and Recovery is being undertaken pursuant to AHRQ's mission to
enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health
services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a
broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of
improvements in clinical and health systems practices, including the
prevention of diseases and other health conditions. 42 U.S.C. 299.
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the following data collections
will be implemented:
(1) Safety Culture Survey. Hospitals will assess the impact of
participation in the project on perioperative safety culture by having
their staff members who will be part of the enhanced recovery program
complete a survey adapted from the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety
Culture (SOPS) at the beginning and end of the program. The hospital's
enhanced recovery project team will receive their survey results and
then debrief their staff on their safety culture and identify
opportunities for further improvement. The national
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project team will provide technical assistance for this effort.
Participating hospitals will promote awareness of the survey among
their staff, coordinate implementation of the survey, encourage and
provide staff the time to complete the survey, and organize a local
debrief of the reports of their hospital's results. The national
project team will assist this effort by providing an electronic portal
for hospital staff to anonymously complete the survey and by analyzing
the data and sending a report to the hospital. Data will also be
analyzed in aggregate across all participating hospitals to evaluate
the impact of the overall quality improvement effort on measured safety
culture.
(2) Patient Experience Survey. Hospitals will also assess the
impact of participation in the project on patients' experience with
care. This will be done via administration of a patient experience
survey to patients discharged after a qualifying surgery. Patients will
receive a pre-implementation assessment of patient experience after a
qualifying surgery and a post-implementation assessment of patient
experience will be administered to patients who were treated the
enhanced recovery program at participating hospitals. The survey will
be administered by the national project team. Hospitals will provide
patient contact information to the project team after execution of a
data use agreement. This information will be provided to the national
project team to send the survey to patients on behalf of the hospital.
The national project team will provide a summative report to each
hospital with the hospital's results to promote additional local
quality improvement work. Data will also be analyzed in aggregate
across all participating hospitals to evaluate the impact of the
overall quality improvement effort on patient experience of care.
(3) Readiness and Implementation Assessments: Semi-structured
qualitative interviews. Semi-structured qualitative interviews will be
conducted with key stakeholders at participating hospitals (e.g.,
project leads, physician project champions, etc.). These include a
readiness assessment conducted after a hospital's enrollment in the
project and an implementation assessment conducted after a period of
implementation. The readiness assessment will help identify which, if
any, technical components of the enhanced surgical care and recovery
intervention already exist at the hospital, project management and
resources, clinician engagement, leadership engagement and potential
barriers and facilitators to implementation. The implementation
assessment will evaluate what elements of the enhanced recovery
practices have been adopted, resources invested, team participation,
major barriers (e.g., medications, equipment, trained personnel), and
leadership participation. These assessments will help identify training
needs of hospitals and inform the national team's approach. In
addition, the results will inform the national team's understanding of
local adaptations of the intervention and the degree to which
intervention fidelity impacts changes in outcomes.
(4) Site visits. Semi-structured site visits will be conducted at a
subset of participating hospitals. Findings will help inform the
national project implementation strategy. Information from these visits
will be critical in understanding if and how team and/or leadership
issues may affect implementation of enhanced recovery practices,
including how this may differ across surgical services. Interviews will
help uncover and clarify misalignments in roles, needed time and
resources, best practices, and potential enablers of and barriers to
enhanced surgical care and recovery implementation. Site visits will be
conducted at approximately 4 hospitals per year, and each will be 1 day
long. The types of hospital personnel anticipated being involved in
part or all of the site visit include senior leadership, perioperative
leadership, and patient safety and quality staff. Participating
hospitals will receive a structured debriefing and brief summary report
at the end of the one-day visit.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Safety culture survey........................... 12,000 1 0.25 3,000
Patient experience survey....................... 1,800 1 0.37 666
Readiness and Implementation assessment......... 720 1 1 720
Site visits..................................... 40 1 8 320
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 14,560 N/A N/A 4,706
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Form name Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate * burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Safety culture survey........................... 6,000 1,500 \a\ $101.04 $151,560
Safety culture survey........................... 6,000 1,500 \b\ 34.70 52,050
Patient experience survey....................... 1,800 666 \d\ 23.86 15,891
Readiness and Implementation assessment......... 360 360 \a\ 101.04 36,374
Readiness and Implementation assessment......... 360 360 \c\ 52.58 18,929
Site visits..................................... 20 160 \a\ 101.04 16,166
Site Visits..................................... 20 160 \c\ 52.58 8,413
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 14,560 4,706 N/A 299,383
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National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2016 ``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 29-1060 Physicians and Surgeons.
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\b\ Based on the mean wages for 29-1141 Registered Nurse.
\c\ Based on the mean wages for 11-9111 Medical and Health Services Managers.
\d\ Based on the mean wages for 00-0000 All Occupations.
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,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2017-15885 Filed 7-27-17; 8:45 am]
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