Draft Update to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Infection Prevention and Control Recommendation Categorization Scheme, 46950 [2018-20118]
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Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE,
Mailstop A–07, Atlanta, Georgia, 30329;
Telephone: (404) 639–4000.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[Docket No. CDC–2018–0090]
Draft Update to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention Infection
Prevention and Control
Recommendation Categorization
Scheme
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), in the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), announces the opening
of a docket to obtain comment on the
Draft Update to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention Infection
Prevention and Control
Recommendation Categorization
Scheme (Draft Update). The Draft
Update provides updated categories that
specify the strength of CDC’s Infection
Prevention and Control Guideline
Recommendations. The Draft Update
also includes recommendation
justification tables, a new component of
the recommendation development
process, that provide transparency into
the considerations weighed when
developing infection prevention and
control recommendations.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0090 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Division of Healthcare Quality
Promotion, National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Attn: Docket No. CDC–
2018–0090, HICPAC Secretariat, 1600
Clifton Rd. NE, Mailstop A–07, Atlanta,
Georgia, 30329.
Instructions: Submissions via https://
regulations.gov are preferred. All
submissions received must include the
agency name and Docket Number. All
relevant comments received will be
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Interested persons or organizations
are invited to participate by submitting
written views, recommendations, and
data.
Please note that comments received,
including attachments and other
supporting materials, are part of the
public record and are subject to public
disclosure. Comments will be posted on
https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
do not include any information in your
comment or supporting materials that
you consider confidential or
inappropriate for public disclosure. If
you include your name, contact
information, or other information that
identifies you in the body of your
comments, that information will be on
public display. CDC will review all
submissions and may choose to redact,
or withhold, submissions containing
private or proprietary information such
as Social Security numbers, medical
information, inappropriate language, or
duplicate/near duplicate examples of a
mass-mail campaign. CDC will carefully
consider all comments submitted in
preparation of the final Update to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Infection Prevention and
Control Recommendation
Categorization Scheme and may revise
the final document as appropriate.
Background
This Draft Update is a
recommendation from the Healthcare
Infection Control Practices Advisory
Committee (HICPAC) to CDC on the
updating of CDC’s infection prevention
and control recommendation categories.
The Draft Update is located in the
‘‘Supporting & Related Material’’ tab of
the docket.
HICPAC is a federal advisory
committee charged with providing
advice and guidance to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and
includes representatives from the public
health and infectious diseases fields,
regulatory and other federal agencies,
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Sandra Cashman,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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professional societies, and other
stakeholders. This Draft Update is not a
Federal rule or regulation.
Once finalized, the Recommendation
Categories and supporting Justification
Tables will be used by CDC, HICPAC,
and HICPAC’s workgroups in the
development of infection prevention
and control guideline recommendations.
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(APOE), September 26, 2018;
Correction
Centers for Medicare &
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AGENCY:
ACTION:
Correction notice.
This document corrects a
technical error in the meeting notice
that appeared in the August 31, 2018
Federal Register titled ‘‘Medicare &
Medicaid Programs, and Other Program
Initiatives, and Priorities; Meeting of the
Advisory Panel on Outreach and
Education (APOE), September 26,
2018.’’
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynne Johnson, (410) 786–0090.
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I. Background and Summary of Errors
In FR Doc. 2018–18961 of August 31,
2018 (83 FR 44632), we made an error
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2018 (83 FR 44632), make the following
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Docket No. CDC-2018-0090]
Draft Update to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infection Prevention and Control Recommendation Categorization Scheme
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the opening of
a docket to obtain comment on the Draft Update to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Infection Prevention and Control
Recommendation Categorization Scheme (Draft Update). The Draft Update
provides updated categories that specify the strength of CDC's
Infection Prevention and Control Guideline Recommendations. The Draft
Update also includes recommendation justification tables, a new
component of the recommendation development process, that provide
transparency into the considerations weighed when developing infection
prevention and control recommendations.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0090 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Attn: Docket No. CDC-2018-0090, HICPAC
Secretariat, 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, Mailstop A-07, Atlanta, Georgia,
30329.
Instructions: Submissions via https://regulations.gov are preferred.
All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket
Number. All relevant comments received will be posted without change to
https://regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
For access to the docket to read background documents or comments
received, go to https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Stone, Division of Healthcare
Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE, Mailstop A-07, Atlanta, Georgia, 30329; Telephone: (404) 639-4000.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation
Interested persons or organizations are invited to participate by
submitting written views, recommendations, and data.
Please note that comments received, including attachments and other
supporting materials, are part of the public record and are subject to
public disclosure. Comments will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, do not include any information in your
comment or supporting materials that you consider confidential or
inappropriate for public disclosure. If you include your name, contact
information, or other information that identifies you in the body of
your comments, that information will be on public display. CDC will
review all submissions and may choose to redact, or withhold,
submissions containing private or proprietary information such as
Social Security numbers, medical information, inappropriate language,
or duplicate/near duplicate examples of a mass-mail campaign. CDC will
carefully consider all comments submitted in preparation of the final
Update to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Infection
Prevention and Control Recommendation Categorization Scheme and may
revise the final document as appropriate.
Background
This Draft Update is a recommendation from the Healthcare Infection
Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) to CDC on the updating of
CDC's infection prevention and control recommendation categories. The
Draft Update is located in the ``Supporting & Related Material'' tab of
the docket.
HICPAC is a federal advisory committee charged with providing
advice and guidance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
and includes representatives from the public health and infectious
diseases fields, regulatory and other federal agencies, professional
societies, and other stakeholders. This Draft Update is not a Federal
rule or regulation.
Once finalized, the Recommendation Categories and supporting
Justification Tables will be used by CDC, HICPAC, and HICPAC's
workgroups in the development of infection prevention and control
guideline recommendations.
Dated: September 12, 2018.
Sandra Cashman,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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