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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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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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 National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NHAMCS) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. CDC previously
published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations’’ notice on November
27, 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.
Proposed Project
National Hospital Ambulatory
Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) (OMB
Control Number 0920–0278, Expiration
02/28/2018)—Reinstatement with
change—National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as
amended, authorizes that the Secretary
of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
acting through NCHS, shall collect
statistics on ‘‘utilization of health care’’
in the United States. The National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NHAMCS) has conducted
annually since 1992. NCHS is seeking
OMB approval to reinstate this survey
for an additional three years, following
a brief discontinuation on February 28,
2018.
The target universe of the NHAMCS is
in-person visits made to emergency
departments (EDs) of non-Federal, shortstay hospitals (hospitals with an average
length of stay of less than 30 days) that
have at least six beds for inpatient use,
and with a specialty of general and
medical, maternity, children’s general,
or long term acute care.
NHAMCS was initiated to
complement the National Ambulatory
Medical Care Survey (NAMCS, OMB
Control Number 0920–0234, Expiration
03/31/2019), which provides similar
data concerning patient visits to
physicians’ offices. NAMCS and
NHAMCS are the principal sources of
data on ambulatory care provided in the
United States.
NHAMCS provides a range of baseline
data on the characteristics of the users
and providers of hospital ambulatory
medical care. Data collected include
patients’ demographic characteristics,
reason(s) for visit, providers’ diagnoses,
diagnostic services, medications, and
disposition. These data, together with
trend data, may be used to monitor the
effects of change in the health care
system, for the planning of health
services, improving medical education,
determining health care work force
needs, and assessing the health status of
the population.
Starting 2018, CDC will implement
just the ED component of NHAMCS.
However, once reinstated the 2017
survey will run concurrently with the
2018 survey until the final months of
pending 2017 data collection have been
completed. This is typical with any data
collection cycle: It begins in the last
month of the preceding year and ends
around the middle of the following year.
For the 2017 data collection, CDC will
collect information on all three settings
(ED, OPD, and ASL). For this three-year
request, CDC does not expect
substantive changes or supplements for
the survey.
Users of NHAMCS data include, but
are not limited to, congressional offices,
Federal agencies, state and local
governments, schools of public health,
colleges and Universities, private
industry, nonprofit foundations,
professional associations, clinicians,
researchers, administrators, and health
planners.
There are no costs to the respondents
other than their time. The total
estimated annualized burden hours are
1,251.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Hospital Chief Executive Officer .....................
Hospital Chief Executive Officer .....................
Ancillary Service Executive .............................
Hospital Induction 2017 Data Collection ........
Hospital Induction 2018+ Data Collection .....
Ambulatory Unit Induction (ED, OPD and
ASL).
Ambulatory Unit Induction (ED only) .............
Ancillary Service Executive .............................
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
20
340
840
1
1
1
75/60
45/60
15/60
578
1
15/60
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Medical Record Clerk .....................................
Retrieving Patient Records (2017 and 2018+
ED, OPD and ASL).
2018+ Reabstraction Telephone Call (1)ED
only.
2018+ Pulling and re-filing Patient Records
(1)ED only.
Ancillary Service Executive—Reabstraction ...
Medical Record Clerk—Reabstraction ............
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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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 Contact
Investigation Outcome Reporting Forms
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. CDC
previously published a ‘‘Proposed Data
Collection Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations’’
notice on October 13, 2017 to obtain
comments from the public and affected
agencies. CDC did not receive comments
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;
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(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.
Proposed Project
Contact Investigation Outcome
Reporting Forms (OMB Control Number
0920–0900, expiration date 06/30/
2018)—Revision—National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC’s Division of Global Migration
and Quarantine has a regulatory and
public health mission to prevent the
importation and spread of
communicable disease into and within
the United States. CDC works towards
fulfilling this mission through a number
of activities carried out at Quarantine
Stations strategically placed at 20 U.S.
ports of entry as well as coordinating
activities at CDC headquarters in
Atlanta, Georgia. A key portion of this
mission is responding to reports of
illness or death on air and maritime
conveyances and investigating any
potential exposures to determine if
public health follow up is needed.
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
360
102
1/60
17
1
5/60
17
10
1/60
CDC proposes to continue collecting
passenger-level, epidemiologic,
demographic, and health status data
from state/local Health Departments and
maritime operators at the conclusion of
contact investigations of individuals
believed to have been exposed to a
communicable disease during travel.
Health departments or maritime
operators will obtain the information for
CDC while conducting contact
investigations according to their
established policies and procedures.
The current information collection
request includes forms that are specific
to investigations about Tuberculosis
(TB), Measles, and Rubella. The request
also includes a General form for other
diseases of public health concern. In
2011, OMB initially approved the forms
to facilitate the collection and reporting
of pertinent information. Prior to 2011,
there were no standardized tools for
health departments and maritime
operators to report the outcomes of state
or vessel contact investigations to CDC.
The collected information will assist
CDC in fulfilling its regulatory
responsibility to prevent the
importation of communicable diseases
from foreign countries (42 CFR part 71)
and interstate control of communicable
diseases in humans (42 CFR part 70).
This information collection is also a
critical piece of the standard operating
procedures carried out by the 20
Quarantine Stations placed at key ports
of entry around the United States. The
purpose of all forms is the same: to
facilitate the collection of information
by public health partners to help CDC
quarantine officials fully understand the
extent of disease spread and
transmission during travel and to inform
the development and or refinement of
investigative protocols aimed at
reducing the spread of communicable
disease.
The respondents, state and local
health departments and maritime
conveyance operators (e.g., Cruise Ship
Medical Staff/Cargo Ship Managers),
may use the standardized forms to
submit data voluntarily to CDC via a
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-18-0278]
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 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NHAMCS) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review
and approval. CDC previously published a ``Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations'' notice on November
27, 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
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) (OMB
Control Number 0920-0278, Expiration 02/28/2018)--Reinstatement with
change--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect statistics on
``utilization of health care'' in the United States. The National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) has conducted annually
since 1992. NCHS is seeking OMB approval to reinstate this survey for
an additional three years, following a brief discontinuation on
February 28, 2018.
The target universe of the NHAMCS is in-person visits made to
emergency departments (EDs) of non-Federal, short-stay hospitals
(hospitals with an average length of stay of less than 30 days) that
have at least six beds for inpatient use, and with a specialty of
general and medical, maternity, children's general, or long term acute
care.
NHAMCS was initiated to complement the National Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey (NAMCS, OMB Control Number 0920-0234, Expiration 03/31/
2019), which provides similar data concerning patient visits to
physicians' offices. NAMCS and NHAMCS are the principal sources of data
on ambulatory care provided in the United States.
NHAMCS provides a range of baseline data on the characteristics of
the users and providers of hospital ambulatory medical care. Data
collected include patients' demographic characteristics, reason(s) for
visit, providers' diagnoses, diagnostic services, medications, and
disposition. These data, together with trend data, may be used to
monitor the effects of change in the health care system, for the
planning of health services, improving medical education, determining
health care work force needs, and assessing the health status of the
population.
Starting 2018, CDC will implement just the ED component of NHAMCS.
However, once reinstated the 2017 survey will run concurrently with the
2018 survey until the final months of pending 2017 data collection have
been completed. This is typical with any data collection cycle: It
begins in the last month of the preceding year and ends around the
middle of the following year. For the 2017 data collection, CDC will
collect information on all three settings (ED, OPD, and ASL). For this
three-year request, CDC does not expect substantive changes or
supplements for the survey.
Users of NHAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional
offices, Federal agencies, state and local governments, schools of
public health, colleges and Universities, private industry, nonprofit
foundations, professional associations, clinicians, researchers,
administrators, and health planners.
There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. The
total estimated annualized burden hours are 1,251.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hospital Chief Executive Officer... Hospital Induction 2017 20 1 75/60
Data Collection.
Hospital Chief Executive Officer... Hospital Induction 2018+ 340 1 45/60
Data Collection.
Ancillary Service Executive........ Ambulatory Unit Induction 840 1 15/60
(ED, OPD and ASL).
Ancillary Service Executive........ Ambulatory Unit Induction 578 1 15/60
(ED only).
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Medical Record Clerk............... Retrieving Patient Records 360 102 1/60
(2017 and 2018+ ED, OPD
and ASL).
Ancillary Service Executive-- 2018+ Reabstraction 17 1 5/60
Reabstraction. Telephone Call (1)ED only.
Medical Record Clerk--Reabstraction 2018+ Pulling and re-filing 17 10 1/60
Patient Records (1)ED only.
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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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