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(T32) ’’ AHRQ RFA–HS17–011, National
Research Service Award (NRSA)
Institutional Research Training Grant
(T32).’’
A SEP is a group of experts in fields
related to health care research who are
invited by AHRQ, and agree to be
available on an as needed basis, to
conduct scientific reviews of
applications for AHRQ support.
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do not serve for fixed terms or a long
period of time. Rather, they are asked to
participate in particular review
meetings which require their type of
expertise.
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for the duration of the meeting. The SEP
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to the public in accordance with the
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section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for
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concerning individuals associated with
the grant applications, the disclosure of
which would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Janey Hsiao, Health Scientist
Administrator, Center for Evidence and
Practice Improvement, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, 5600
Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E73A,
Rockville, Maryland, 20857, Email:
Janey.hsiao@ahrq.hhs.gov, Phone: (301)
427–1335.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
The patient’s perspective is central to
healthcare decisions affecting
prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and
long-term care. Patient-reported
outcomes (PROs) critically inform
patient-centered outcomes research
(PCOR) and can inform clinical
management of individuals, shared
decision making, patient selfmanagement support, care planning,
goal setting and goal attainment. PROs
offer a complementary perspective to
that of clinician assessments, and may
provide greater insights into health
status, function, symptom burden,
adherence, health behaviors, and quality
of life. However, standardized tools that
collect PRO data in a way that is
meaningful and useful to both patients
and clinicians in primary care and
ambulatory settings are not widely
available.
The limited inclusion of PRO data in
electronic health records (EHRs) and
other health information technology (IT)
solutions reduces the understanding
and use of the patient’s perspective in
research and clinical care. Further,
while some EHRs are currently able to
capture some structured PRO data,
including many of the NIH-funded
Patient Reported Outcomes
Measurement Information System®
(PROMIS®) instruments, this
information is not commonly collected
in routine care. Thus, these data are
often not available for both clinical care
and research. Moreover, standards do
not exist for collecting and integrating
PRO data into health IT systems,
thereby limiting the ability to easily
share these data across health systems
for research or other purposes including
quality improvement.
This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to
conduct a Challenge Competition in Fall
2018 to develop user-friendly technical
tools to collect and integrate patientreported outcome data in electronic
health records or other health
information technology products.
Proposed Project
To fill these gaps, AHRQ intends to
support the development of userfriendly, PRO-collection tools that
utilize health IT standards, including
application programming interfaces
(APIs) to collect physical function data
in ambulatory care settings (including
primary care). Data element and data
capture standards would allow for PRO
assessments to be conducted and easily
shared regardless of what EHR or health
Dated: December 19, 2017.
Gopal Khanna,
Director.
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Notice of an Upcoming Challenge
Competition
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Department of
Health and Human Services.
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IT solution is being used. It would also
allow for consistency in interpretation,
and clarify the meaning of results for
patient-provider communication and
shared decision-making.
The development of user-friendly,
PRO-collection tools will be conducted
though a multi-phase Challenge
Competition in Fall 2018. The statutory
authority for this challenge competition
is Section 105 of the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
2010. Only the winners from each phase
can move on to the next phase so the
participant pool becomes more limited
throughout the competition. Developers
will be asked to create tools based on
implementation specifications provided
by AHRQ. The tools should enable
patients to share their physical function
data with clinicians and researchers.
AHRQ will convene a panel to judge the
Challenge Competition. The judges of
the Challenge Competition will evaluate
the resulting submissions for adhering
to the implementation specifications set
forth in the Challenge Competition.
AHRQ will manage the Challenge
Competition including developing the
concept, designing prizes, drafting the
Federal Register Notice, setting up the
Challenge website, answering questions
from developers, and giving prizes to
winners. The Challenge Competition
will be conducted by AHRQ in
furtherance of the Secretary’s authority
to develop interoperable data networks
that can link data from multiple sources,
including electronic health records. 42
U.S.C. 299b–37(f).
Dated: December 19, 2017.
Gopal Khanna,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–18–0822]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled The National
Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence
Survey (NISVS) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. CDC previously
published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and
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Recommendations’’ notice on
September 20, 2017 to obtain comments
from the public and affected agencies.
CDC received one comment related to
the previous notice. This notice serves
to allow an additional 30 days for public
and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agencies estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including, through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and
(e) Assess information collection
costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the items contained in this
notice to the Attention: CDC Desk
Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202)
395–5806. Provide written comments
within 30 days of notice publication.
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Proposed Project
The National Intimate Partner and
Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) (OMB
Control Number 0920–0822, expiration
date 7/30/2018)—Revision—National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
This is a revision request for the
currently approved National Intimate
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Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
data collection project. Approval is
requested for three years.
In 2010, NISVS reported that
approximately 6.9 million women and
5.6 million men experienced rape,
physical violence and/or stalking by an
intimate partner within the last year.
The health care costs of intimate partner
violence (IPV) exceed $5.8 billion each
year, nearly $3.9 billion of which is for
direct medical and mental health care
services.
In order to address this important
public health problem, CDC
implemented, beginning in 2010, the
National Intimate Partner and Sexual
Violence Surveillance System that
produces national and state level
estimates of IPV, Sexual Violence (SV)
and stalking on an annual basis.
Data collection in the 2018–2019
cycle is slated to begin in mid-March
2018. Data will be collected in two
periods. The first collection will be
March 2018 through mid-September
2018 and the second collection will be
mid-September 2018 through midMarch 2019.
The current request for revision is to
conduct the 2018–2019 data collection.
This data collection will use the version
of the survey used for the 2016–2017
data collection period revised to reduce
redundancy, and remove questions for
active duty women and men in the
military and wives of active duty men,
as they will not be a part of the next
wave of data collection. The request will
allow the continuation of data collection
among non-institutionalized adult men
and women aged 18 years or older in the
United States assessing lifetime and past
12 month experiences of IPV, SV and
stalking. The current request also
includes modifying data collection
protocols to improve response rate and
reduce non-response bias in response to
recommendations provided by a
methodology workgroup convened at
the request of the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB).
To comply with OMB’s terms of
clearance for 2014 and 2016, CDC
collaborated with Bureau of Justice
Statistics in convening a workgroup to
obtain expert feedback and input on
how to enhance the NISVS survey
methodology. Workgroup participants
provided guidance on how to improve
the system’s survey design (e.g.,
methods, sampling frame, recruitment,
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mode of administration, etc.) with the
goals of increasing response rates,
reducing non-response bias, and
maximizing the collaborative
opportunities across Federal surveys for
covering populations of interest. Four
meetings of the workgroup, which
included a representative from OMB
and a representative from CDC’s Board
of Scientific Counselors, began in
February of 2017 and were completed in
July of 2017. Recommendations from
the workgroup, provided to CDC in a
written report, have been used to inform
both the 2018–2019 efforts as well as
plans for a substantial re-design of the
survey design and administration after
2019. Additionally, the primary
recommendations provided by the
workgroup along with CDC’s proposed
activities to address the
recommendations were presented to the
National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control’s Board of Scientific
Counselors (BSC) in September 2017.
The BSC provided additional ideas for
opportunities to learn about other
Federal agencies’ advances and
experiments related to survey methods,
as well as ideas for collaboration across
Federal agencies, which CDC staff are
currently pursuing.
NCIPC has also worked to improve
the performance of the NISVS data
collection tool (without altering its core
content on IPV, SV, and stalking
prevalence), decrease the level of
burden on respondents, and reduce the
time required to complete data
processing, validation, and packaging
for public release. In addition, the
inclusion of questions in the NISVS data
collection tool, about child exposure to
physical or psychological IPV;
normative beliefs about IPV, SV, and
bystander intervention; and barriers to
bystander intervention, further aligns
NISVS surveillance approaches with
stakeholder needs and demonstrates
responsiveness to their expressed
recommendations for surveillance
improvement. The survey will be
conducted among English or Spanish
speaking male and female adults (18
years and older) living in the United
States. The estimated annual burden
hours requested are 22,700. There is a
reduction of 4,406 hours from the
previously approved hours of 27,106.
There are no extra costs to respondents.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Non-Participating Household (Screened) .......
NISVS Survey Instrument. First section nonparticipating.
NISVS Survey Instrument. Section for participating.
Eligible Household (Completes Survey) .........
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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reviewed and addressed where
appropriate.
Frank Hearl,
Chief of Staff, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[CDC–2017–0068; Docket Number NIOSH–
299]
Final National Occupational Research
Agenda for Cancer, Reproductive,
Cardiovascular and Other Chronic
Disease Prevention (CRC)
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: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
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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 the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled The National Survey of Family
Growth (NSFG), designed to provide
nationally representative, scientifically
credible data on factors related to birth
and pregnancy rates, family formation
and dissolution patterns, and
reproductive health.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before February 26,
2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0099 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
SUMMARY:
The final document was
published on December 1, 2017.
ADDRESSES: The document may be
obtained at the following link: https://
www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/crosssectors/
crc/researchagenda.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Emily Novicki, (NORACoordinator@
cdc.gov), National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention,
Mailstop E–20, 1600 Clifton Road NE,
Atlanta, GA 30329, phone (404) 498–
2581 (not a toll free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August
9, 2017, NIOSH published a request for
public review in the Federal Register
(82 FR 37228) of the draft version of the
National Occupational Research Agenda
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
NIOSH announces the
availability of the final National
Occupational Research Agenda for
Cancer, Reproductive, Cardiovascular
and Other Chronic Disease Prevention
(CRC).
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• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all Comments through
the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Leroy A.
Richardson, 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-18-0822]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information
collection request titled The National Intimate Partner and Sexual
Violence Survey (NISVS) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval. CDC previously published a ``Proposed Data
Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
[[Page 60999]]
Recommendations'' notice on September 20, 2017 to obtain comments from
the public and affected agencies. CDC received one comment related to
the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an additional 30 days
for public and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly
interested in comments that:
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(d) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including, through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses; and
(e) Assess information collection costs.
To request additional information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Direct written comments
and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Provide
written comments within 30 days of notice publication.
Proposed Project
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)
(OMB Control Number 0920-0822, expiration date 7/30/2018)--Revision--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
This is a revision request for the currently approved National
Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey data collection project.
Approval is requested for three years.
In 2010, NISVS reported that approximately 6.9 million women and
5.6 million men experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by
an intimate partner within the last year. The health care costs of
intimate partner violence (IPV) exceed $5.8 billion each year, nearly
$3.9 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health care
services.
In order to address this important public health problem, CDC
implemented, beginning in 2010, the National Intimate Partner and
Sexual Violence Surveillance System that produces national and state
level estimates of IPV, Sexual Violence (SV) and stalking on an annual
basis.
Data collection in the 2018-2019 cycle is slated to begin in mid-
March 2018. Data will be collected in two periods. The first collection
will be March 2018 through mid-September 2018 and the second collection
will be mid-September 2018 through mid-March 2019.
The current request for revision is to conduct the 2018-2019 data
collection. This data collection will use the version of the survey
used for the 2016-2017 data collection period revised to reduce
redundancy, and remove questions for active duty women and men in the
military and wives of active duty men, as they will not be a part of
the next wave of data collection. The request will allow the
continuation of data collection among non-institutionalized adult men
and women aged 18 years or older in the United States assessing
lifetime and past 12 month experiences of IPV, SV and stalking. The
current request also includes modifying data collection protocols to
improve response rate and reduce non-response bias in response to
recommendations provided by a methodology workgroup convened at the
request of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
To comply with OMB's terms of clearance for 2014 and 2016, CDC
collaborated with Bureau of Justice Statistics in convening a workgroup
to obtain expert feedback and input on how to enhance the NISVS survey
methodology. Workgroup participants provided guidance on how to improve
the system's survey design (e.g., methods, sampling frame, recruitment,
mode of administration, etc.) with the goals of increasing response
rates, reducing non-response bias, and maximizing the collaborative
opportunities across Federal surveys for covering populations of
interest. Four meetings of the workgroup, which included a
representative from OMB and a representative from CDC's Board of
Scientific Counselors, began in February of 2017 and were completed in
July of 2017. Recommendations from the workgroup, provided to CDC in a
written report, have been used to inform both the 2018-2019 efforts as
well as plans for a substantial re-design of the survey design and
administration after 2019. Additionally, the primary recommendations
provided by the workgroup along with CDC's proposed activities to
address the recommendations were presented to the National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control's Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) in
September 2017. The BSC provided additional ideas for opportunities to
learn about other Federal agencies' advances and experiments related to
survey methods, as well as ideas for collaboration across Federal
agencies, which CDC staff are currently pursuing.
NCIPC has also worked to improve the performance of the NISVS data
collection tool (without altering its core content on IPV, SV, and
stalking prevalence), decrease the level of burden on respondents, and
reduce the time required to complete data processing, validation, and
packaging for public release. In addition, the inclusion of questions
in the NISVS data collection tool, about child exposure to physical or
psychological IPV; normative beliefs about IPV, SV, and bystander
intervention; and barriers to bystander intervention, further aligns
NISVS surveillance approaches with stakeholder needs and demonstrates
responsiveness to their expressed recommendations for surveillance
improvement. The survey will be conducted among English or Spanish
speaking male and female adults (18 years and older) living in the
United States. The estimated annual burden hours requested are 22,700.
There is a reduction of 4,406 hours from the previously approved hours
of 27,106. There are no extra costs to respondents.
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Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Non-Participating Household (Screened) NISVS Survey Instrument. 204,000 1 3/60
First section non-
participating.
Eligible Household (Completes Survey). NISVS Survey Instrument. 30,000 1 25/60
Section for
participating.
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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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