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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, November 2, 2018.
Ann Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
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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.
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 ‘‘Child
Hospital Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(Child HCAHPS) Survey Database.’’
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by January 7, 2019.
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
emails at doris.lefkowitz@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Proposed Project
Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(Child HCAHPS) Survey Database
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 CAHPS Child Hospital Survey
(Child HCAHPS) assesses the
experiences of pediatric patients (less
than 18 years old) and their parents or
guardians with inpatient care. It
complements the CAHPS Adult
Hospital Survey (HCAHPS), which asks
adult inpatients about their experiences.
In contrast to the adult version of
HCAHPS, there is no publicly available
comprehensive database for Child
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HCAHPS that allows survey users to
analyze and compare their survey
results in order to assess their
performance and identify opportunities
for improvement. The proposed Child
HCAHPS Database will fill this critical
information gap by creating a voluntary
database available to all Child HCAHPS
users to support both quality
improvement and research to enhance
the patient-centeredness of care
delivered to pediatric hospital patients.
AHRQ supported the development of
the Child HCAHPS survey by the Center
of Excellence for Pediatric Quality
Measurement at Boston Children’s
Hospital. The Child HCAHPS survey is
currently used by approximately 300
hospitals. Hospitals using Child
HCAHPS, including the 25 hospital
members of the Pediatric Patient
Experience Collaborative, have
expressed strong interest in working
with AHRQ to develop a database that
can provide a centralized repository of
data.
Rationale for the information
collection. Like the survey instrument
itself and related toolkit materials to
support survey implementation,
aggregated Child HCAHPS Database
results will be made publicly available
on AHRQ’s CAHPS website. Technical
assistance will be provided by AHRQ
through its contractor at no charge to
hospitals to facilitate the access and use
of these materials for quality
improvement and research. Technical
assistance will also be provided to
support Child HCAHPS data
submission.
The Child HCAHPS Database will
support AHRQ’s goals of promoting
improvements in the quality and
patient-centeredness of health care in
pediatric hospital settings. This research
has the following goals:
1. Improve care provided by
individual hospitals and hospital
systems.
2. Offer several products and services,
including providing survey results
presented through an Online Reporting
System, summary chartbooks, custom
analyses, private reports and data for
research purposes.
3. Provides information to help
identify strengths and areas with
potential for improvement in patient
care.
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 health care
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services; quality measurement and
improvement; and health surveys and
database development. 42 U.S.C.
299a(a)(1), (2), and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project,
the following activities and data
collections that constitute information
collection under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) will be
implemented:
Submission Notifications and
Instructions. Clear instructions and
notifications are of paramount
importance for successful submission of
valid data, seamless report
dissemination, and streamlined
communication with survey vendors,
hospitals, or other submitters.
Procedures for data submission through
the data submission platform will
include the following:
• Registration with the submission
website to obtain an account with a
secure username and password: The
point-of-contact (POC), often the
hospital, completes a number of data
submission steps and forms, beginning
with the completion of the online
registration form. The purpose of this
form is to collect basic contact
information about the organization and
initiate the registration process;
• Submission of signed Data Use
Agreements (DUAs) and survey
questionnaires. The purpose of the data
use agreement, completed by the
participating hospital, is to state how
data submitted by or on behalf of
hospitals will be used and provides
confidentiality assurances;
• Submission of hospital information
form. The purpose of this form
completed by the participating
organization, is to collect background
characteristics of the hospital; and
• Follow-up with submitters in the
event of a rejected file, to assist in
making corrections and resubmitting the
file.
With the approval and addition of the
Child HCAHPS Database, data
submitted will be used to produce three
types of reporting products:
• Hospital Feedback Reports.
Hospitals that submit data will have
access to a customized report that
presents findings for their individual
submission along with results from the
database overall. These ‘‘private’’
hospital feedback reports will display
sortable results for each of the Child
HCAHPS core composite measures and
for each individual survey item that
forms the composite measure.
• Child HCAHPS Chartbook. A
summary-level Chartbook will be
compiled to display top box and other
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proportional scores for the Child
HCAHPS items and composite measures
broken out by selected hospital
characteristics (e.g., region, hospital
size, ownership and affiliation, etc.).
• Online Reporting System. Aggregate
results also will be made publicly
available through an interactive, webbased system that allows users to view
survey item and composite results (or
build and download a custom report) in
a variety of formats.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden
hours for the respondents to participate
in the database. The 302 POCs in
Exhibit 1 are a combination of an
estimated 300 hospitals that currently
administer the Child HCAHPS survey
and the two survey vendors assisting
them.
Each hospital will register online for
submission. The online Registration
form will require about 5 minutes to
complete. Each submitter will also
complete a hospital information form of
information about each hospital such as
the name of the hospital, hospital size,
state, etc. The online hospital
information form takes on average 5
minutes to complete. The data use
agreement will be completed by each of
the 300 participating hospitals. Survey
vendors do not sign or submit DUAs.
The DUA requires about 3 minutes to
sign and return by fax or mail. Each
submitter, which in most cases will be
the survey vendor performing the data
collection, will provide a copy of their
questionnaire and the survey data file in
the required file format. Survey data
files must conform to the data file layout
specifications provide by the Child
HCAHPS Database. Since the unit of
analysis is at the hospital level,
submitters will upload one data file per
hospital. Once a data file is uploaded,
the file will be automatically checked to
ensure it conforms to the specifications
and a data file status report will be
produced and made available to the
submitter. Submitters will review each
report and will be expected to correct
any errors in their data file and resubmit
if necessary. It will take about one hour
to submit the data for each hospital. The
total burden is estimated to be 365
hours annually.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents/
POCs
Form name
Number of
responses per
POC
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Registration Form ............................................................................................
Hospital Information Form ...............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
300
300
300
2
1
1
1
150
5/60
5/60
3/60
1
25
25
15
300
Total ..........................................................................................................
902
NA
NA
365
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the
respondents’ time to complete one
submission process. The cost burden is
estimated to be $16,722 annually.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
burden
Registration Form ............................................................................................
Hospital Information Form ...............................................................................
Data Use Agreement .......................................................................................
Data Files Submission .....................................................................................
300
300
300
2
25
25
15
300
a 53.69
c 42.08
$1,342
1,342
1,414
12,624
Total ..........................................................................................................
902
365
NA
16,722
a 53.69
b 94.25
* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2017, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’
(a) Based on the mean hourly wage for Medical and Health Services Managers (11–9111).
(b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives (11–1011).
(c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15–1131).
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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
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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
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comments will become a matter of
public record.
Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
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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 ``Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers
and Systems (Child HCAHPS) Survey Database.''
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by January 7, 2019.
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
Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(Child HCAHPS) Survey Database
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 CAHPS Child Hospital Survey (Child HCAHPS) assesses the
experiences of pediatric patients (less than 18 years old) and their
parents or guardians with inpatient care. It complements the CAHPS
Adult Hospital Survey (HCAHPS), which asks adult inpatients about their
experiences. In contrast to the adult version of HCAHPS, there is no
publicly available comprehensive database for Child HCAHPS that allows
survey users to analyze and compare their survey results in order to
assess their performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
The proposed Child HCAHPS Database will fill this critical information
gap by creating a voluntary database available to all Child HCAHPS
users to support both quality improvement and research to enhance the
patient-centeredness of care delivered to pediatric hospital patients.
AHRQ supported the development of the Child HCAHPS survey by the
Center of Excellence for Pediatric Quality Measurement at Boston
Children's Hospital. The Child HCAHPS survey is currently used by
approximately 300 hospitals. Hospitals using Child HCAHPS, including
the 25 hospital members of the Pediatric Patient Experience
Collaborative, have expressed strong interest in working with AHRQ to
develop a database that can provide a centralized repository of data.
Rationale for the information collection. Like the survey
instrument itself and related toolkit materials to support survey
implementation, aggregated Child HCAHPS Database results will be made
publicly available on AHRQ's CAHPS website. Technical assistance will
be provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to hospitals to
facilitate the access and use of these materials for quality
improvement and research. Technical assistance will also be provided to
support Child HCAHPS data submission.
The Child HCAHPS Database will support AHRQ's goals of promoting
improvements in the quality and patient-centeredness of health care in
pediatric hospital settings. This research has the following goals:
1. Improve care provided by individual hospitals and hospital
systems.
2. Offer several products and services, including providing survey
results presented through an Online Reporting System, summary
chartbooks, custom analyses, private reports and data for research
purposes.
3. Provides information to help identify strengths and areas with
potential for improvement in patient care.
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 health care services; quality
measurement and improvement; and health surveys and database
development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2), and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project, the following activities and
data collections that constitute information collection under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) will be implemented:
Submission Notifications and Instructions. Clear instructions and
notifications are of paramount importance for successful submission of
valid data, seamless report dissemination, and streamlined
communication with survey vendors, hospitals, or other submitters.
Procedures for data submission through the data submission platform
will include the following:
Registration with the submission website to obtain an
account with a secure username and password: The point-of-contact
(POC), often the hospital, completes a number of data submission steps
and forms, beginning with the completion of the online registration
form. The purpose of this form is to collect basic contact information
about the organization and initiate the registration process;
Submission of signed Data Use Agreements (DUAs) and survey
questionnaires. The purpose of the data use agreement, completed by the
participating hospital, is to state how data submitted by or on behalf
of hospitals will be used and provides confidentiality assurances;
Submission of hospital information form. The purpose of
this form completed by the participating organization, is to collect
background characteristics of the hospital; and
Follow-up with submitters in the event of a rejected file,
to assist in making corrections and resubmitting the file.
With the approval and addition of the Child HCAHPS Database, data
submitted will be used to produce three types of reporting products:
Hospital Feedback Reports. Hospitals that submit data will
have access to a customized report that presents findings for their
individual submission along with results from the database overall.
These ``private'' hospital feedback reports will display sortable
results for each of the Child HCAHPS core composite measures and for
each individual survey item that forms the composite measure.
Child HCAHPS Chartbook. A summary-level Chartbook will be
compiled to display top box and other
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proportional scores for the Child HCAHPS items and composite measures
broken out by selected hospital characteristics (e.g., region, hospital
size, ownership and affiliation, etc.).
Online Reporting System. Aggregate results also will be
made publicly available through an interactive, web-based system that
allows users to view survey item and composite results (or build and
download a custom report) in a variety of formats.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden hours for the respondents to
participate in the database. The 302 POCs in Exhibit 1 are a
combination of an estimated 300 hospitals that currently administer the
Child HCAHPS survey and the two survey vendors assisting them.
Each hospital will register online for submission. The online
Registration form will require about 5 minutes to complete. Each
submitter will also complete a hospital information form of information
about each hospital such as the name of the hospital, hospital size,
state, etc. The online hospital information form takes on average 5
minutes to complete. The data use agreement will be completed by each
of the 300 participating hospitals. Survey vendors do not sign or
submit DUAs. The DUA requires about 3 minutes to sign and return by fax
or mail. Each submitter, which in most cases will be the survey vendor
performing the data collection, will provide a copy of their
questionnaire and the survey data file in the required file format.
Survey data files must conform to the data file layout specifications
provide by the Child HCAHPS Database. Since the unit of analysis is at
the hospital level, submitters will upload one data file per hospital.
Once a data file is uploaded, the file will be automatically checked to
ensure it conforms to the specifications and a data file status report
will be produced and made available to the submitter. Submitters will
review each report and will be expected to correct any errors in their
data file and resubmit if necessary. It will take about one hour to
submit the data for each hospital. The total burden is estimated to be
365 hours 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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Registration Form............................... 300 1 5/60 25
Hospital Information Form....................... 300 1 5/60 25
Data Use Agreement.............................. 300 1 3/60 15
Data Files Submission........................... 2 150 1 300
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 902 NA NA 365
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the
respondents' time to complete one submission process. The cost burden
is estimated to be $16,722 annually.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Form name Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate * burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Registration Form............................... 300 25 \a\ 53.69 $1,342
Hospital Information Form....................... 300 25 \a\ 53.69 1,342
Data Use Agreement.............................. 300 15 \b\ 94.25 1,414
Data Files Submission........................... 2 300 \c\ 42.08 12,624
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 902 365 NA 16,722
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2017, ``U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.''
(a) Based on the mean hourly wage for Medical and Health Services Managers (11-9111).
(b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives (11-1011).
(c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15-1131).
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. 2018-24339 Filed 11-6-18; 8:45 am]
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