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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) re-approve the proposed
information collection project ‘‘The
Systematic Review Data Repository
(SRDR) Platform’’.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by October 11, 2022.
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.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
‘‘The Systematic Review Data
Repository (SRDR) Platform’’
Since 1997, the AHRQ Evidencebased Practice Center (EPC) Program has
been reviewing relevant scientific
information on a wide spectrum of
clinical and health services topics to
produce various types of evidence
reports. A majority of these evidence
reports are systematic reviews (SRs),
which are used as evidence bases for
clinical practice guidelines, research
agendas, healthcare coverage, and other
health related policies. Performing SRs
is costly in time, labor, and money.
Moreover, there is an increasing
expectation of quicker turnaround in
producing SRs to accommodate the fast
moving pace of innovations and new
scientific discoveries in healthcare.
Some SRs overlap or are duplicated;
independent teams of SR producers
often extract data from the same studies,
resulting in replication of work. Current
methodology makes it difficult to
harness and reuse previous work when
updating SRs.
In an effort to reduce the economic
burden of conducting SRs, the EPC
program undertook development of a
collaborative, Web-based repository of
systematic review data called the
Systematic Review Data Repository
(SRDR). The OMB Control Number for
this data collection is 0935–0244, which
was last approved by OMB on October
16, 2019.
This resource serves as both an
archive and data extraction tool, shared
among organizations and individuals
producing SRs worldwide, enabling the
creation of a central database of SR data.
This database is collaboratively vetted,
freely accessible, and integrates
seamlessly with reviewers’ existing
workflows, with the ultimate goal of
facilitating the efficient generation and
update of evidence reviews, and thus
speeding and improving evidence-based
policy-making with regards to health
care.
Note that the SRDR system was
upgraded during the last period of OMB
clearance and is now designated as
SRDR+. We will use the term ‘‘SRDR
platform’’ to collectively denote the
various upgraded iterations of the
platform.
The SRDR project aims to achieve the
following goals:
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(1) Create online easy-to-use Webbased tools for conducting systematic
reviews to facilitate extraction of data
from primary studies;
(2) Develop an open-access searchable
archive of key questions addressed in
systematic reviews;
(3) Maintain a public repository of
primary study data including provision
of technical support for repository users;
and
(4) Develop a process for making
summary data from systematic reviews
digitally shareable to end-users.
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, Brown
University, pursuant to AHRQ’s
statutory authority to conduct and
support research on healthcare and on
systems for the delivery of such care,
including activities with respect to the
quality, effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of healthcare
services, including database
development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and
(8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the
following data collections are being
implemented:
(1) Collect registration information on
SRs from SR producers who will
populate the SRDR platform.
The SRDR platform now uses a twotiered categorization of users, and
collection of registration data will
depend on the type of user.
‘‘Contributors’’ are SR producers who
use the SRDR platform as a tool to
support production of the SR and share
scientific data from their SRs.
Registration data will be collected from
these users. ‘‘General public’’ users only
view scientific data publicly available in
the SRDR platform. No data will be
collected from these users. The
‘‘Commentator’’ category of users that
were referenced in the last OMB
clearance period has been eliminated in
the updated system since no users have
signed up to be commentators.
All Contributors undergo a simple
self-registration process by providing a
password and an email address.
Provision of username and institution
information by registrants is now
optional in the updated system.
Collection of registration data from
Contributors is required due to the
technical nature of using the SRDR
platform both as a database and a tool
for assisting in the production of a SR,
including providing comments in the
various sections of a particular project
on the SRDR platform. In addition,
provision of an email address and
institution information allows the
administrators of the SRDR platform to
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confirm that requests are being made by
actual people and not potentially
malicious software code such as bots
and other cybersecurity threats.
User registration will be used for
administrative purposes only including
communication between SRDR platform
administrators and registrant users. This
type of information will not be made
publicly available.
SRDR platform. In 2020, 1,029 users
registered as Contributors. Registration
will take approximately 1.5 minutes or
0.025 hours per user. We thus calculate
the total burden hours required for
registration for all users annually is
25.73 hours.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate/use the
EXHIBIT 1— ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Form name
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Registration of users as Contributors ..............................................................
1,029
1
0.025
25.73
Total ..........................................................................................................
1,029
........................
........................
25.73
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost
burden associated with the respondents’
time to participate/use the SRDR
platform. The total cost burden to
respondents is estimated at an average
of $ 1,126.97 annually.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate *
Total cost
burden
Registration of users as Commentators or Contributors .................................
1,029
25.73
a $43.80
$1,126.97
Total ..........................................................................................................
1,029
25.73
........................
1,126.97
* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2021, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’
Available at: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm.
a Based on the mean wages for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, 29–0000.
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520,
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.
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Dated: August 9, 2022.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Supplemental Evidence and Data
Request on Cervical Degenerative
Disease Treatment
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
AGENCY:
Request for Supplemental
Evidence and Data Submissions.
ACTION:
The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking
scientific information submissions from
the public. Scientific information is
being solicited to inform our review on
Cervical Degenerative Disease
Treatment, which is currently being
conducted by the AHRQ’s Evidencebased Practice Centers (EPC) Program.
Access to published and unpublished
pertinent scientific information will
improve the quality of this review.
SUMMARY:
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Submission Deadline on or
before September 12, 2022.
ADDRESSES:
Email submissions: epc@
ahrq.hhs.gov.
On-line submissions: https://
effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/getinvolved/submit-sead.
Print submissions:
Mailing Address: Center for Evidence
and Practice Improvement, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality,
ATTN: EPC SEADs Coordinator, 5600
Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E53A,
Rockville, MD 20857.
Shipping Address (FedEx, UPS, etc.):
Center for Evidence and Practice
Improvement, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, ATTN: EPC
SEADs Coordinator,5600 Fishers Lane,
Mail Stop 06E77D, Rockville, MD
20857.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jenae Benns, Telephone: 301–427–1496
or Email: epc@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality has commissioned the
Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC)
Program to complete a review of the
evidence for Cervical Degenerative
Disease Treatment. AHRQ is conducting
this systematic review pursuant to
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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) re-approve the proposed information
collection project ``The Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR)
Platform''.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by October 11, 2022.
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 email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
``The Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR) Platform''
Since 1997, the AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program
has been reviewing relevant scientific information on a wide spectrum
of clinical and health services topics to produce various types of
evidence reports. A majority of these evidence reports are systematic
reviews (SRs), which are used as evidence bases for clinical practice
guidelines, research agendas, healthcare coverage, and other health
related policies. Performing SRs is costly in time, labor, and money.
Moreover, there is an increasing expectation of quicker turnaround in
producing SRs to accommodate the fast moving pace of innovations and
new scientific discoveries in healthcare. Some SRs overlap or are
duplicated; independent teams of SR producers often extract data from
the same studies, resulting in replication of work. Current methodology
makes it difficult to harness and reuse previous work when updating
SRs.
In an effort to reduce the economic burden of conducting SRs, the
EPC program undertook development of a collaborative, Web-based
repository of systematic review data called the Systematic Review Data
Repository (SRDR). The OMB Control Number for this data collection is
0935-0244, which was last approved by OMB on October 16, 2019.
This resource serves as both an archive and data extraction tool,
shared among organizations and individuals producing SRs worldwide,
enabling the creation of a central database of SR data. This database
is collaboratively vetted, freely accessible, and integrates seamlessly
with reviewers' existing workflows, with the ultimate goal of
facilitating the efficient generation and update of evidence reviews,
and thus speeding and improving evidence-based policy-making with
regards to health care.
Note that the SRDR system was upgraded during the last period of
OMB clearance and is now designated as SRDR+. We will use the term
``SRDR platform'' to collectively denote the various upgraded
iterations of the platform.
The SRDR project aims to achieve the following goals:
(1) Create online easy-to-use Web-based tools for conducting
systematic reviews to facilitate extraction of data from primary
studies;
(2) Develop an open-access searchable archive of key questions
addressed in systematic reviews;
(3) Maintain a public repository of primary study data including
provision of technical support for repository users; and
(4) Develop a process for making summary data from systematic
reviews digitally shareable to end-users.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor, Brown
University, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and
support research on healthcare and on systems for the delivery of such
care, including activities with respect to the quality, effectiveness,
efficiency, appropriateness and value of healthcare services, including
database development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the following data collections
are being implemented:
(1) Collect registration information on SRs from SR producers who
will populate the SRDR platform.
The SRDR platform now uses a two-tiered categorization of users,
and collection of registration data will depend on the type of user.
``Contributors'' are SR producers who use the SRDR platform as a tool
to support production of the SR and share scientific data from their
SRs. Registration data will be collected from these users. ``General
public'' users only view scientific data publicly available in the SRDR
platform. No data will be collected from these users. The
``Commentator'' category of users that were referenced in the last OMB
clearance period has been eliminated in the updated system since no
users have signed up to be commentators.
All Contributors undergo a simple self-registration process by
providing a password and an email address. Provision of username and
institution information by registrants is now optional in the updated
system. Collection of registration data from Contributors is required
due to the technical nature of using the SRDR platform both as a
database and a tool for assisting in the production of a SR, including
providing comments in the various sections of a particular project on
the SRDR platform. In addition, provision of an email address and
institution information allows the administrators of the SRDR platform
to
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confirm that requests are being made by actual people and not
potentially malicious software code such as bots and other
cybersecurity threats.
User registration will be used for administrative purposes only
including communication between SRDR platform administrators and
registrant users. This type of information will not be made publicly
available.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate/use the SRDR platform. In 2020, 1,029
users registered as Contributors. Registration will take approximately
1.5 minutes or 0.025 hours per user. We thus calculate the total burden
hours required for registration for all users annually is 25.73 hours.
Exhibit 1-- Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Registration of users as Contributors........... 1,029 1 0.025 25.73
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 1,029 .............. .............. 25.73
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost burden associated with the
respondents' time to participate/use the SRDR platform. The total cost
burden to respondents is estimated at an average of $ 1,126.97
annually.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Form name Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate * burden
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Registration of users as Commentators or 1,029 25.73 \a\ $43.80 $1,126.97
Contributors...................................
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Total....................................... 1,029 25.73 .............. 1,126.97
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2021, ``U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.'' Available at: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm.
\a\ Based on the mean wages for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, 29-0000.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3520, 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.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
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