[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 162 (Thursday, August 21, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49520-49521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-19826]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-14-0278]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) (OMB
Control No. 0920-0278, expires 12/31/2014)--Revision--National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect statistics on
``utilization of health care'' in the United States. The National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) has been conducted
annually since 1992. NCHS is seeking OMB approval to extend this survey
for an additional three years and make minor modifications to survey
questionnaires.
The purpose of NHAMCS is to meet the needs and demands for
statistical information about the provision of ambulatory medical care
services in the United States. Ambulatory services are rendered in a
wide variety of settings, including physicians' offices and hospital
outpatient and emergency departments. The target universe of the NHAMCS
is in-person visits made to outpatient departments (OPDs), emergency
departments (EDs), and ambulatory surgery locations (ASLs) of non-
Federal, short-stay hospitals (hospitals with an average length of stay
of less than 30 days) or those whose specialty is general (medical or
surgical) or children's general.
NHAMCS was initiated to complement the National Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey (NAMCS, OMB No. 0920-0234), which provides similar data
concerning patient visits to physicians' offices. NAMCS and NHAMCS are
the principal sources of
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data on ambulatory care provided in the United States.
NHAMCS provides a range of baseline data on the characteristics of
the users and providers of hospital ambulatory medical care. Data
collected include patients' demographic characteristics, reason(s) for
visit, providers' diagnoses, diagnostic services, medications, and
disposition. These data, together with trend data, may be used to
monitor the effects of change in the health care system, for the
planning of health services, improving medical education, determining
health care work force needs, and assessing the health status of the
population.
Users of NHAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional
offices, Federal agencies, state and local governments, schools of
public health, colleges and universities, private industry, nonprofit
foundations, professional associations, clinicians, researchers,
administrators, and health planners. There are no costs to the
respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) hours
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Hospital Chief Executive Officer............... Hospital Induction..................... 458 1 1.5 687
Ancillary Service Executive.................... Ambulatory Unit Induction.............. 1,750 1 15/60 438
Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical Record Clerk ED Patient Record form................. 33 100 7/60 385
Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical Record Clerk OPD Patient Record form................ 23 200 14/60 1,073
Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical Record Clerk AS Patient Record Form................. 23 100 7/60 268
Medical Record Clerk........................... Retrieving Patient Records (ED, OPD, 696 133 1/60 1,543
and AS).
Ancillary Service Executive--Reabstraction..... Reabstraction Telephone Call........... 72 1 5/60 6
Medical Record Clerk--Reabstraction............ Pulling and re-filing Patient Records 72 10 1/60 12
(ED, OPD, and AS).
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Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 4,412
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-19826 Filed 8-20-14; 8:45 am]
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