[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58142-58143]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-23047]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-12-0607]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-7570 or send an email to
[email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-5806.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)--
[OMB0920-0607, Expiration 11/30/2012]--Revision--National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public health problem. In the United
States, homicide and suicide are the second and third leading causes of
death, respectively, in the 1-34 year old age group. Unfortunately,
public health agencies do not know much more about the problem other
than the statistics and the sex, race, and age of the victims; all
information obtainable from the standard death certificate. Death
certificates, however, carry no information about key facts necessary
for prevention such as the relationship between the victim and suspect
and the circumstances of the deaths, thereby making it only possible to
discern the gross contours of the problem. Furthermore, death
certificates are typically available 20 months after the completion of
a single calendar year. Official publications of national violent death
rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use
data that is less than two years old. Public health interventions aimed
at a moving target last seen two years ago may well miss the mark.
Local and Federal criminal justice agencies such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more information about
homicides, but they do not routinely collect standardized data about
suicides, which are in fact
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much more common than homicides. The FBI[acute]s Supplemental Homicide
Report system (SHRs) collects basic information about the victim-
suspect relationship and circumstances, however it does not link
violent deaths that are part of one incident such as homicide-suicides.
It also is a voluntary system in which some 10-20 percent of police
departments nationwide do not participate. The FBI[acute]s National
Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) addresses some of these
deficiencies, but it covers less of the country than SHRs, includes
only homicides, and collects only police information. Also, the Bureau
of Justice Statistics Reports do not use data that is less than two
years old.
CDC therefore proposes to continue a state-based surveillance
system for violent deaths that will provide more detailed and timely
information. It taps into the case records held by medical examiners/
coroners, police, and crime labs. Data is collected centrally by each
state in the system, stripped of identifiers, and then sent to the CDC.
Information is collected from these records about the characteristics
of the victims and suspects, the circumstances of the deaths, and the
weapons involved. States use standardized data elements and software
designed by CDC. Ultimately, this information will guide states in
designing programs that reduce multiple forms of violence.
Neither victim families nor suspects are contacted to collect this
information. All data comes from existing records and is collected by
state health department staff or their subcontractors. Health
departments incur an average of 2.0 hours per death to complete data
collection. This is the time required to identify the deaths from death
certificates, contact police and medical examiners to get copies of or
to view the relevant records and enter the information into the
database. Public agencies working with NVDRS states incur an average of
0.5 hours per death to retrieve and then refile records.
This revision provides updates to the coding manual which reflects
improved guidance to system users for coding information to be entered
into the system. The improved coding guidance in the manual ensures
that data is consistently entered across users.
There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. The
total estimated annual burden hours are 67,500.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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State Health Departments............. Completion of case 27 1,000 2.0
abstraction.
Public Agencies...................... Retrieving and refile 27 1,000 30/60
records.
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Dated: September 13, 2012.
Ron A. Otten,
Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate
Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-23047 Filed 9-18-12; 8:45 am]
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