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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Potential Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS®) Survey on Prenatal and
Childbirth Care Experiences in
Ambulatory and Inpatient Settings:
Request for Information
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Request for
Information regarding a potential
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems (CAHPS®)
survey to assess patients’ prenatal and
childbirth care experiences in
ambulatory and inpatient settings.
AGENCY:
The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) invites
public comment in response to this
Request for Information (RFI) about a
potential Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS®) survey to assess patients’
prenatal care and childbirth care
experiences in ambulatory and inpatient
care settings. Currently, no CAHPS
instrument is available that is
specifically designed to measure
prenatal and childbirth care from the
patient’s perspective in these settings.
Accordingly, this RFI seeks comments
regarding methodologically sound
approaches to assessing prenatal and
childbirth care experiences in
healthcare settings about topics such as
communication with providers, respect,
access to services, and patients’
perceptions of bias in receiving care.
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This RFI also seeks comments about
any (1) existing patient experience
surveys or survey items that might be
incorporated into public domain
CAHPS ambulatory and inpatient
prenatal and childbirth experience
surveys; and, (2) special considerations
or concerns associated with the
collection of such information. This RFI
will help inform the development of
scientifically sound surveys to
potentially measure the experience of
patients receiving prenatal and
childbirth care.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by May 5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may
submit comments electronically to
CAHPS1@westat.com with the subject
line ‘‘Prenatal and Childbirth Care
Experience Survey RFI.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions may be addressed to Caren
Ginsberg, Director, CAHPS and SOPS
Programs, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety,
caren.ginsberg@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AHRQ is
seeking public comment about survey
characteristics and data collection
approaches and strategies to optimize
the meaningfulness of patient
experience information from patients
receiving prenatal and childbirth
healthcare, that is, care received in a
hospital or birthing center, during labor,
delivery, and their stay in the hospital
or birthing center. AHRQ’s CAHPS
Program advances scientific
understanding of patient healthcare
experiences using surveys developed for
different healthcare settings. The
CAHPS surveys cover topics that are
important to patients and which
patients are best able to assess, such as
communication with providers, shared
decision making, and access to health
care services. CAHPS surveys measure
care experiences; that is, what happened
or how often something happened, in a
health care encounter. CAHPS surveys
do not collect information about
availability of specific services;
limitations to receiving specific services
or procedures; or patient satisfaction
(e.g., patients’ expectations for, or how
they felt about, their care). Information
collected by CAHPS surveys can
motivate and focus quality improvement
efforts and/or choice of providers by
survey sponsors, health care
organizations, clinicians, patients,
consumers, and other stakeholders.
Specific questions of interest to
AHRQ include, but are not limited to:
1. What are the highest priority
aspect(s) of patient experiences with
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prenatal healthcare that should be
asked about in a survey?
a. Why are these aspect(s) of patient
experience a high priority for inclusion
in a survey of prenatal healthcare?
b. What other topic area(s) should be
included in a new survey assessing
prenatal healthcare?
2. What are the highest priority
aspect(s) of patient experiences with
childbirth healthcare that should be
asked about in a survey?
a. Why are these aspect(s) of patient
experience a high priority for inclusion
in a survey of childbirth healthcare?
b. What other topic area(s) should be
included in a new survey assessing
patient experiences with childbirth
health care?
3. For which prenatal care settings
should measures and/or surveys be
developed? For example, should
measures and/or surveys be developed
for group practices? Hospitals? Birthing
centers? Ambulatory care practices?
Other settings?
4. For which childbirth care settings
should measures and/or surveys be
developed? For example, should
measures and/or surveys be developed
for hospitals? Birthing centers?
Ambulatory care practices? Other
settings?
5. What, if any, challenge(s) are there
to collecting information about patient
experiences with prenatal and
childbirth healthcare?
6. What actions or approaches would
facilitate the collection of information
about the experience of patients with
prenatal and childbirth healthcare?
(a) What data collection approach(es)
would be most likely to promote
participation by respondents to a survey
of prenatal and childbirth healthcare
(e.g., web-based; paper-and-pencil; etc.)?
(b) Are there any way(s) that data
collection approach(es) would differ
based on whether patients received
healthcare in inpatient care settings
compared to ambulatory care settings?
7. Which survey measure(s) that
assess prenatal and/or childbirth care
experiences are currently being used?
Please note that these surveys or items
might be found in the patient
satisfaction domain. Feel free to include
them in response to this RFI.
(a) Which respondent groups (e.g.,
patients in inpatient settings; family
members; providers; etc.) are asked to
complete these survey(s)?
(b) How are these currently used
survey(s) administered (for example,
paper-and-pencil; web-based; etc.) to
patients?
(c) What information is collected in
these survey(s) that assess prenatal care
and/or childbirth experiences? How
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well do these surveys perform? What are
the strengths of the survey(s) currently
in use?
(d) What content area(s) are missing
from these survey(s) that are currently
in use?
(e) Which content area(s) are low
priority or not useful in these currently
used survey(s)? Why are they not
useful?
(f) How are the results and findings of
these current survey(s) used to evaluate
and/or improve care quality in inpatient
and ambulatory healthcare settings? Are
the results and findings of these current
survey(s) used for other purposes?
(g) Are there any item(s) that address
perceived bias in care that have been
used to assess prenatal and/or childbirth
care experiences of patients? How have
these item(s) measured or
operationalized ‘‘perceived bias in
care?’’ What, if any, limitations do these
item(s) have in measuring ‘‘perceived
bias in care?’’
Respondents to this RFI are welcome
to address as many or as few of these
questions as they choose and/or to
address additional areas of interest not
listed.
This RFI is for planning purposes
only and should not be construed as a
policy, solicitation for applications, or
as an obligation on the part of the
Government to provide support for any
ideas in response to it. AHRQ will use
the information submitted in response
to this RFI at its discretion, and will not
provide comments to any respondent’s
submission. However, responses to this
RFI may be reflected in future
initiatives, solicitation(s), notices of
funding opportunities, or policies.
Respondents are advised that the
Government is under no obligation to
acknowledge receipt of the information
received or provide feedback to
respondents with respect to any
information submitted. No proprietary,
classified, confidential or sensitive
information should be included in your
response. The contents of all
submissions will be made available to
the public upon request. Submitted
materials must be publicly available or
able to be made public.
Dated: March 20, 2023.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2023–05988 Filed 3–22–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
[OMB No. 0970–0497]
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Personal Responsibility
Education Program (PREP)—Extension
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
OPRE and the Family and
Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) in ACF
request an extension to a currently
approved information collection of
performance measures data for the PREP
Program (OMB No. 0970–0497;
expiration date: 06/30/2023). The
purpose of the request is to (1) continue
the ongoing data collection and
submission of the performance
measures by PREP grantees and (2)
eliminate the requirement for grantees
SUMMARY:
to aggregate participant survey data to
the program level for submission.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and
submit comments by emailing
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: This notice is specific to
a request for an extension of data
collection activities for the PREP
Performance Measures Study
component, which includes collection
and analysis of performance measure
data from State PREP (SPREP), Tribal
PREP (TPREP), Competitive PREP
(CPREP), and Personal Responsibility
Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS)
grantees. PREP grants support evidencebased programs to reduce teen
pregnancy and sexually transmitted
infections. The programs are required to
provide education on both abstinence
and contraceptive use and to offer
information on adulthood preparation
subjects. Data will be used to determine
if the PREP grantees are meeting their
programs’ mission and priorities. This
request includes revisions to the
program-level data collection forms
(Instruments 3 and 4) to no longer
require grantees to aggregate participant
survey data to the program level for
submission.
Respondents: SPREP, TPREP, CPREP,
and PREIS grantees; their subrecipients;
and program participants.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
(total over
request
period)
Instrument
Number of
responses per
respondent
(total over
request
period)
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
Annual burden
(in hours)
Instrument 1
Participant entry survey .......................................................
351,001
1
0.13333
46,799
15,600
1
0.11667
37,358
12,453
5,508
864
2,268
1,008
1,836
288
756
336
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Participant exit survey ..........................................................
320,203
Instrument 3: Performance Reporting System Data Entry Form
SPREP grantees ..................................................................
TPREP grantees ..................................................................
CPREP grantees ..................................................................
PREIS grantees ...................................................................
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Potential Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS[supreg]) Survey on Prenatal and Childbirth Care Experiences in
Ambulatory and Inpatient Settings: Request for Information
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Request for Information regarding a potential
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS[supreg])
survey to assess patients' prenatal and childbirth care experiences in
ambulatory and inpatient settings.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) invites
public comment in response to this Request for Information (RFI) about
a potential Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPS[supreg]) survey to assess patients' prenatal care and childbirth
care experiences in ambulatory and inpatient care settings. Currently,
no CAHPS instrument is available that is specifically designed to
measure prenatal and childbirth care from the patient's perspective in
these settings. Accordingly, this RFI seeks comments regarding
methodologically sound approaches to assessing prenatal and childbirth
care experiences in healthcare settings about topics such as
communication with providers, respect, access to services, and
patients' perceptions of bias in receiving care.
This RFI also seeks comments about any (1) existing patient
experience surveys or survey items that might be incorporated into
public domain CAHPS ambulatory and inpatient prenatal and childbirth
experience surveys; and, (2) special considerations or concerns
associated with the collection of such information. This RFI will help
inform the development of scientifically sound surveys to potentially
measure the experience of patients receiving prenatal and childbirth
care.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by May 5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit comments electronically to
[email protected] with the subject line ``Prenatal and Childbirth Care
Experience Survey RFI.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to Caren
Ginsberg, Director, CAHPS and SOPS Programs, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AHRQ is seeking public comment about survey
characteristics and data collection approaches and strategies to
optimize the meaningfulness of patient experience information from
patients receiving prenatal and childbirth healthcare, that is, care
received in a hospital or birthing center, during labor, delivery, and
their stay in the hospital or birthing center. AHRQ's CAHPS Program
advances scientific understanding of patient healthcare experiences
using surveys developed for different healthcare settings. The CAHPS
surveys cover topics that are important to patients and which patients
are best able to assess, such as communication with providers, shared
decision making, and access to health care services. CAHPS surveys
measure care experiences; that is, what happened or how often something
happened, in a health care encounter. CAHPS surveys do not collect
information about availability of specific services; limitations to
receiving specific services or procedures; or patient satisfaction
(e.g., patients' expectations for, or how they felt about, their care).
Information collected by CAHPS surveys can motivate and focus quality
improvement efforts and/or choice of providers by survey sponsors,
health care organizations, clinicians, patients, consumers, and other
stakeholders.
Specific questions of interest to AHRQ include, but are not limited
to:
1. What are the highest priority aspect(s) of patient experiences
with prenatal healthcare that should be asked about in a survey?
a. Why are these aspect(s) of patient experience a high priority
for inclusion in a survey of prenatal healthcare?
b. What other topic area(s) should be included in a new survey
assessing prenatal healthcare?
2. What are the highest priority aspect(s) of patient experiences
with childbirth healthcare that should be asked about in a survey?
a. Why are these aspect(s) of patient experience a high priority
for inclusion in a survey of childbirth healthcare?
b. What other topic area(s) should be included in a new survey
assessing patient experiences with childbirth health care?
3. For which prenatal care settings should measures and/or surveys
be developed? For example, should measures and/or surveys be developed
for group practices? Hospitals? Birthing centers? Ambulatory care
practices? Other settings?
4. For which childbirth care settings should measures and/or
surveys be developed? For example, should measures and/or surveys be
developed for hospitals? Birthing centers? Ambulatory care practices?
Other settings?
5. What, if any, challenge(s) are there to collecting information
about patient experiences with prenatal and childbirth healthcare?
6. What actions or approaches would facilitate the collection of
information about the experience of patients with prenatal and
childbirth healthcare?
(a) What data collection approach(es) would be most likely to
promote participation by respondents to a survey of prenatal and
childbirth healthcare (e.g., web-based; paper-and-pencil; etc.)?
(b) Are there any way(s) that data collection approach(es) would
differ based on whether patients received healthcare in inpatient care
settings compared to ambulatory care settings?
7. Which survey measure(s) that assess prenatal and/or childbirth
care experiences are currently being used? Please note that these
surveys or items might be found in the patient satisfaction domain.
Feel free to include them in response to this RFI.
(a) Which respondent groups (e.g., patients in inpatient settings;
family members; providers; etc.) are asked to complete these survey(s)?
(b) How are these currently used survey(s) administered (for
example, paper-and-pencil; web-based; etc.) to patients?
(c) What information is collected in these survey(s) that assess
prenatal care and/or childbirth experiences? How
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well do these surveys perform? What are the strengths of the survey(s)
currently in use?
(d) What content area(s) are missing from these survey(s) that are
currently in use?
(e) Which content area(s) are low priority or not useful in these
currently used survey(s)? Why are they not useful?
(f) How are the results and findings of these current survey(s)
used to evaluate and/or improve care quality in inpatient and
ambulatory healthcare settings? Are the results and findings of these
current survey(s) used for other purposes?
(g) Are there any item(s) that address perceived bias in care that
have been used to assess prenatal and/or childbirth care experiences of
patients? How have these item(s) measured or operationalized
``perceived bias in care?'' What, if any, limitations do these item(s)
have in measuring ``perceived bias in care?''
Respondents to this RFI are welcome to address as many or as few of
these questions as they choose and/or to address additional areas of
interest not listed.
This RFI is for planning purposes only and should not be construed
as a policy, solicitation for applications, or as an obligation on the
part of the Government to provide support for any ideas in response to
it. AHRQ will use the information submitted in response to this RFI at
its discretion, and will not provide comments to any respondent's
submission. However, responses to this RFI may be reflected in future
initiatives, solicitation(s), notices of funding opportunities, or
policies. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no
obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or
provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information
submitted. No proprietary, classified, confidential or sensitive
information should be included in your response. The contents of all
submissions will be made available to the public upon request.
Submitted materials must be publicly available or able to be made
public.
Dated: March 20, 2023.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2023-05988 Filed 3-22-23; 8:45 am]
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