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(F) An assessment of the impact on
existing programs, including schedules,
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and other preference programs.
In furtherance of Phase II objectives,
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related to the approach proposed in the
Phase I deliverable and respond to
questions from industry. Additionally,
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commercial e-commerce portals in
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QP–2018–02, Request for information
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2018–03, Request for information from
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the implementation of a proof of
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Dated: May 25, 2018.
Laura J. Stanton,
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Enterprise
Strategy Management, Federal Acquisition
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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 ‘‘Nursing
Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
Database.’’
SUMMARY:
Comments on this notice must be
received by July 30, 2018.
DATES:
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.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
emails at doris.lefkowitz@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Proposed Project
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety
Culture Database
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public the comment
on this proposed information collection.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine called
for health care organizations to develop
a ‘‘culture of safety’’ such that their
workforce and processes focus on
improving the reliability and safety of
care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is
Human: Building a Safer Health
System). To respond to the need for
tools to assess patient safety culture in
health care, AHRQ developed and pilot
tested the Nursing Home Survey on
Patient Safety Culture with OMB
approval (OMB NO. 0935–0132;
Approved July 5, 2007).
The survey is designed to enable
nursing homes to assess provider and
staff perspectives about patient safety
issues, medical error, and error
reporting and includes 42 items that
measure 12 composites of patient safety
culture. AHRQ made the survey
publicly available along with a Survey
User’s Guide and other toolkit materials
in November, 2008, on the AHRQ
website.
The AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS
Database consists of data from the
AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient
Safety Culture. Nursing homes in the
U.S. can voluntarily submit data from
the survey to AHRQ through its
contractor, Westat. The Nursing Home
SOPS Database (OMB NO. 0935–0195,
last approved on September 30, 2015)
was developed by AHRQ in 2011 in
response to requests from nursing
homes interested in viewing their
organizations’ patient safety culture
survey results. Those organizations
submitting data receive a feedback
report, as well as a report on the
aggregated de-identified findings of the
other nursing homes submitting data.
These reports are used to assist nursing
home staff in their efforts to improve
patient safety culture in their
organizations.
Rationale for the information
collection. The Nursing Home SOPS and
Nursing Home SOPS Database support
AHRQ’s goals of promoting
improvements in the quality and safety
of health care in nursing home settings.
The survey, toolkit materials, and
database results are all made publicly
available on AHRQ’s website. Technical
assistance is provided by AHRQ through
its contractor at no charge to nursing
homes, to facilitate the use of these
materials for nursing home patient
safety and quality improvement.
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This database will:
(1) Present results from nursing
homes that voluntarily submit their
data;
(2) Provide data to nursing homes to
facilitate internal assessment and
learning in the patient safety
improvement process; and
(3) Provide supplemental information
to help nursing homes identify their
strengths and areas with potential for
improvement in patient safety culture.
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, Westat,
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to conduct and support research on
health care and on systems for the
delivery of such care, including
activities with respect to the quality,
effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of healthcare
services and with respect to surveys and
database development. 42 U.S.C
299a(a)(1) and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project the
following activities and data collections
will be implemented:
(1) Eligibility and Registration Form—
The nursing home (or parent
organization) point-of-contact (POC)
completes a number of data submission
steps and forms, beginning with the
completion of an online Eligibility and
Registration Form. The purpose of this
form is to collect basic demographic
information about the nursing home and
initiate the registration process.
(2) Data Use Agreement—The
purpose of the data use agreement,
completed by the nursing home POC, is
to state how data submitted by nursing
homes will be used and provides
privacy assurances.
(3) Nursing Home Site Information
Form—The purpose of the site
information form, completed by the
nursing home POC, is to collect
background characteristics of the
nursing home. This information will be
used to analyze data collected with the
Nursing Home SOPS survey.
(4) Data File(s) Submission—POCs
upload their data file(s) using the data
file specifications, to ensure that users
submit standardized and consistent data
in the way variables are named, coded
and formatted. The number of
submissions to the database is likely to
vary each year because nursing homes
do not administer the survey and submit
data every year. Data submission is
typically handled by one POC who is
either a corporate level health care
manager for a Quality Improvement
Organization (QIO), a survey vendor
who contracts with a nursing home to
collect their data, or a nursing home
Director of Nursing or nurse manager.
POCs submit data on behalf of 5 nursing
homes, on average, because many
nursing homes are part of a QIO or
larger nursing home or health system
that includes many nursing home sites,
or the POC is a vendor that is submitting
data for multiple nursing homes.
Survey data from the AHRQ Nursing
Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture
are used to produce three types of
products:
(1) A Nursing Home SOPS User
Database Report that is made publicly
available on the AHRQ website;
(2) Individual Nursing Home Survey
Feedback Reports are individualized
reports produced for each nursing home
that submits data to the database; and
(3) Research data sets of individuallevel and nursing home-level deidentified data to enable researchers to
conduct analyses. All data released in a
data set are de-identified at the
individual-level and the nursing homelevel.
Nursing homes will be invited to
voluntarily submit their Nursing Home
SOPS survey data to the database. The
data are then cleaned and aggregated
and used to produce a Database Report
in PDF format that displays averages,
standard deviations, and percentile
scores on the survey’s 42 items and 12
patient safety culture composites, as
well as displaying these results by
nursing home characteristics (bed size,
urbanicity, ownership, and region) and
respondent characteristics (work area/
unit, staff position, interaction with
residents, shift worked most often, and
tenure in nursing home).
Each nursing home that submits data
receives an individualized survey
feedback report that presents their
results alongside the aggregate results
from other participating nursing homes.
Nursing homes use the Nursing Home
SOPS Database Reports and Individual
Nursing Home Survey Feedback Reports
for a number of purposes, to:
• Raise staff awareness about patient
safety.
• Elucidate and assess the current
status of patient safety culture in their
nursing home.
• Identify strengths and areas for
patient safety culture improvement.
• Evaluate trends in patient safety
culture change over time.
• Evaluate the cultural impact of
patient safety initiatives and
interventions.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in the
database. An estimated 60 POCs, each
representing an average of 5 individual
nursing homes each, will complete the
database submission steps and forms.
Each POC will submit the following:
• Eligibility and registration form
(completion is estimated to take about 3
minutes).
• Data Use Agreement (completion is
estimated to take about 3 minutes).
• Nursing Home Site Information
Form (completion is estimated to take
about 5 minutes).
• Survey data submission will take an
average of one hour.
The total annual burden hours are
estimated to be 91 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to submit their data.
The cost burden is estimated to be
$4,085 annually.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents/
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Form name
Number of
responses
per POC
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Eligibility/Registration Form .............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Nursing Home Site Information Form ..............................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
60
60
60
60
1
1
5
1
3/60
3/60
5/60
1
3
3
25
60
Total ..........................................................................................................
NA
NA
NA
91
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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
burden
Eligibility/Registration Forms ............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Nursing Home Site Information Form ..............................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
60
60
60
60
3
3
25
60
$44.89
44.89
44.89
44.89
$135
135
1,122
2,693
Total ..........................................................................................................
240
91
NA
4,085
* The wage rate in Exhibit 2 is based on May 2017 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor. Mean hourly wages for nursing home POCs are located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_623000.htm.
The hourly wage of $44.89 is the weighted mean of $45.81 (General and Operations Managers 11–1021; N = 40) and $43.04 (Medical and
Health Services Managers 11–9111; N = 20).
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’s 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.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
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0043]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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 to take an 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 StopAnthraxTM.
This new generic clearance will support
the collection of information from (1)
persons exposed to an intentional
release of anthrax that were given postexposure prophylactic medical
countermeasures—antibiotics or
antibiotics and vaccine and (2) persons
participating in points of dispensing
(PODs) exercises conducted by state and
local health departments. CDC will use
this information to (1) inform response
activities during an anthrax incident
and (2) improve the StopAnthraxTM
program.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before July 30, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0043 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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.
SUMMARY:
Please note: Submit all comments through
the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
request more information on the
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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,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. 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,
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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 ``Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database.''
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by July 30, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at
[email protected].
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 emails at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521, AHRQ invites the public the comment on this proposed information
collection. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine called for health care
organizations to develop a ``culture of safety'' such that their
workforce and processes focus on improving the reliability and safety
of care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is Human: Building a Safer
Health System). To respond to the need for tools to assess patient
safety culture in health care, AHRQ developed and pilot tested the
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture with OMB approval (OMB
NO. 0935-0132; Approved July 5, 2007).
The survey is designed to enable nursing homes to assess provider
and staff perspectives about patient safety issues, medical error, and
error reporting and includes 42 items that measure 12 composites of
patient safety culture. AHRQ made the survey publicly available along
with a Survey User's Guide and other toolkit materials in November,
2008, on the AHRQ website.
The AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS Database consists of data from the AHRQ
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Nursing homes in the
U.S. can voluntarily submit data from the survey to AHRQ through its
contractor, Westat. The Nursing Home SOPS Database (OMB NO. 0935-0195,
last approved on September 30, 2015) was developed by AHRQ in 2011 in
response to requests from nursing homes interested in viewing their
organizations' patient safety culture survey results. Those
organizations submitting data receive a feedback report, as well as a
report on the aggregated de-identified findings of the other nursing
homes submitting data. These reports are used to assist nursing home
staff in their efforts to improve patient safety culture in their
organizations.
Rationale for the information collection. The Nursing Home SOPS and
Nursing Home SOPS Database support AHRQ's goals of promoting
improvements in the quality and safety of health care in nursing home
settings. The survey, toolkit materials, and database results are all
made publicly available on AHRQ's website. Technical assistance is
provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to nursing homes,
to facilitate the use of these materials for nursing home patient
safety and quality improvement.
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This database will:
(1) Present results from nursing homes that voluntarily submit
their data;
(2) Provide data to nursing homes to facilitate internal assessment
and learning in the patient safety improvement process; and
(3) Provide supplemental information to help nursing homes identify
their strengths and areas with potential for improvement in patient
safety culture.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor,
Westat, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and support
research on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities with respect to the quality, effectiveness,
efficiency, appropriateness and value of healthcare services and with
respect to surveys and database development. 42 U.S.C 299a(a)(1) and
(8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project the following activities and
data collections will be implemented:
(1) Eligibility and Registration Form--The nursing home (or parent
organization) point-of-contact (POC) completes a number of data
submission steps and forms, beginning with the completion of an online
Eligibility and Registration Form. The purpose of this form is to
collect basic demographic information about the nursing home and
initiate the registration process.
(2) Data Use Agreement--The purpose of the data use agreement,
completed by the nursing home POC, is to state how data submitted by
nursing homes will be used and provides privacy assurances.
(3) Nursing Home Site Information Form--The purpose of the site
information form, completed by the nursing home POC, is to collect
background characteristics of the nursing home. This information will
be used to analyze data collected with the Nursing Home SOPS survey.
(4) Data File(s) Submission--POCs upload their data file(s) using
the data file specifications, to ensure that users submit standardized
and consistent data in the way variables are named, coded and
formatted. The number of submissions to the database is likely to vary
each year because nursing homes do not administer the survey and submit
data every year. Data submission is typically handled by one POC who is
either a corporate level health care manager for a Quality Improvement
Organization (QIO), a survey vendor who contracts with a nursing home
to collect their data, or a nursing home Director of Nursing or nurse
manager. POCs submit data on behalf of 5 nursing homes, on average,
because many nursing homes are part of a QIO or larger nursing home or
health system that includes many nursing home sites, or the POC is a
vendor that is submitting data for multiple nursing homes.
Survey data from the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety
Culture are used to produce three types of products:
(1) A Nursing Home SOPS User Database Report that is made publicly
available on the AHRQ website;
(2) Individual Nursing Home Survey Feedback Reports are
individualized reports produced for each nursing home that submits data
to the database; and
(3) Research data sets of individual-level and nursing home-level
de-identified data to enable researchers to conduct analyses. All data
released in a data set are de-identified at the individual-level and
the nursing home-level.
Nursing homes will be invited to voluntarily submit their Nursing
Home SOPS survey data to the database. The data are then cleaned and
aggregated and used to produce a Database Report in PDF format that
displays averages, standard deviations, and percentile scores on the
survey's 42 items and 12 patient safety culture composites, as well as
displaying these results by nursing home characteristics (bed size,
urbanicity, ownership, and region) and respondent characteristics (work
area/unit, staff position, interaction with residents, shift worked
most often, and tenure in nursing home).
Each nursing home that submits data receives an individualized
survey feedback report that presents their results alongside the
aggregate results from other participating nursing homes.
Nursing homes use the Nursing Home SOPS Database Reports and
Individual Nursing Home Survey Feedback Reports for a number of
purposes, to:
Raise staff awareness about patient safety.
Elucidate and assess the current status of patient safety
culture in their nursing home.
Identify strengths and areas for patient safety culture
improvement.
Evaluate trends in patient safety culture change over
time.
Evaluate the cultural impact of patient safety initiatives
and interventions.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate in the database. An estimated 60 POCs,
each representing an average of 5 individual nursing homes each, will
complete the database submission steps and forms. Each POC will submit
the following:
Eligibility and registration form (completion is estimated
to take about 3 minutes).
Data Use Agreement (completion is estimated to take about
3 minutes).
Nursing Home Site Information Form (completion is
estimated to take about 5 minutes).
Survey data submission will take an average of one hour.
The total annual burden hours are estimated to be 91 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to submit their data. The cost burden is estimated to
be $4,085 annually.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Number of
Form name respondents/ responses per Hours per Total burden
POCs POC response hours
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Eligibility/Registration Form................... 60 1 3/60 3
Data Use Agreement.............................. 60 1 3/60 3
Nursing Home Site Information Form.............. 60 5 5/60 25
Data Files Submission........................... 60 1 1 60
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Total....................................... NA NA NA 91
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of
Form name respondents/ Total burden Average hourly Total cost
POCs hours wage rate * burden
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Eligibility/Registration Forms.................. 60 3 $44.89 $135
Data Use Agreement.............................. 60 3 44.89 135
Nursing Home Site Information Form.............. 60 25 44.89 1,122
Data Files Submission........................... 60 60 44.89 2,693
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Total....................................... 240 91 NA 4,085
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* The wage rate in Exhibit 2 is based on May 2017 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor. Mean hourly wages for nursing home POCs are
located at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_623000.htm. The hourly wage of $44.89 is the weighted mean
of $45.81 (General and Operations Managers 11-1021; N = 40) and $43.04 (Medical and Health Services Managers
11-9111; N = 20).
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's 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.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-11657 Filed 5-30-18; 8:45 am]
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