80_FR_38332 80 FR 38205 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

80 FR 38205 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 127 (July 2, 2015)

Page Range38205-38207
FR Document2015-16347

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: ``Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative 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. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on March 23rd, 2014 and allowed 60 days for public comment. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment.

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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: ``Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative 
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.
    This proposed information collection was previously published in 
the Federal Register on March 23rd, 2014 and allowed 60 days for public 
comment. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to 
allow an additional 30 days for public comment.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by August 3, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk 
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by 
email at [email protected] (attention: AHRQ's desk officer). 
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

Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database

    Background on the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture 
(Nursing Home SOPS). In 1999, the Institute of Medicine called for 
health care organizations to develop a ``culture of safety'' such that 
their workforce and processes focus on improving the reliability and 
safety of care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is Human: Building a 
Safer Health System). To respond to the need for tools to assess 
patient safety culture in health care, AHRQ developed and pilot tested 
the Nursing Home SOPS with OMB approval (OMB NO. 0935-0132; Approved 
July 5, 2007).
    The survey is designed to enable nursing homes to assess provider 
and staff opinions about patient safety issues, medical error, and 
error reporting and includes 42 items that measure 12 dimensions of 
patient safety culture. AHRQ made the survey publicly available along 
with a Survey User's Guide and other toolkit materials in November 2008 
on the AHRQ Web site (located at http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/index.html).
    The AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database consists of data 
from the AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS. Nursing homes in the U.S. are asked to 
voluntarily submit data from the survey to AHRQ through its contractor, 
Westat. The Nursing Home SOPS database (OMB NO. 0935-0195, last 
approved on June 12, 2012) was developed by AHRQ in 2011 in response to 
requests from nursing homes interested in knowing how their patient 
safety culture survey results compare to those of other nursing homes 
in their efforts to improve patient safety.
    Rationale for the information collection. The Nursing Home SOPS and 
the Comparative Database support AHRQ's goals of promoting improvements 
in the quality and safety of health care in nursing home settings. The 
survey, toolkit materials, and comparative database results are all 
made publicly available on AHRQ's Web site. Technical assistance is 
provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to nursing homes, 
to facilitate the use of these materials for nursing home patient 
safety and quality improvement.
    The goal of this project is to renew the Nursing Home SOPS 
Comparative Database. This database will:
    (1) Allow nursing homes to compare their patient safety culture 
survey results with those of other nursing homes,
    (2) Provide data to nursing homes to facilitate internal assessment 
and learning in the patient safety improvement process, and
    (3) Provide supplemental information to help nursing homes identify 
their strengths and areas with potential for improvement in patient 
safety culture.
    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 database development. 42 U.S.C. 
299a(a)(1), (2), and (8).

Method of Collection

    To achieve the goal of this project the following activities and 
data collections will be implemented:
    (1) Eligibility and Registration Form--The nursing home (or parent 
organization) point of contact (POC) completes a number of data 
submission steps and forms, beginning with the completion of an online 
eligibility and registration form. The purpose of this form is to 
determine the eligibility status and initiate the registration process 
for nursing homes seeking to voluntarily submit their Nursing Home SOPS 
data to the Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database.
    (2) Data Use Agreement--The purpose of the data use agreement, 
completed by the nursing home POC, is to state how data submitted by 
nursing homes will be used and provides confidentiality assurances.
    (3) Nursing Home Site Information Form--The purpose of the site 
information form is to obtain basic information about the 
characteristics of the nursing homes submitting their Nursing Home SOPS 
data to the Nursing Home SOPS Comparative Database (e.g., bed size, 
urbanicity, ownership, and geographic region). The nursing home POC 
completes the form.
    (4) Data Files Submission--The number of submissions to the 
database is likely to vary each year because nursing homes do not 
administer the survey and submit data every year. Data submission is 
typically handled by one POC who is either a corporate level health 
care manager for a Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), a survey 
vendor who contracts with a nursing home to collect its data, or a 
nursing home Director of Nursing or nurse manager. POCs submit data on 
behalf of 5 nursing homes, on average, because many nursing homes are 
part of a QIO or larger nursing home or health system that includes 
many nursing home sites, or the POC is a vendor that is submitting data 
for multiple nursing homes. POCs upload their data file(s), using the 
nursing home data file specifications, to ensure that users submit 
standardized and consistent data in the way variables are named, coded, 
and formatted.
    Survey data from the AHRQ Nursing Home Survey SOPS are used to 
produce three types of products: (1) A Nursing Home SOPS Comparative 
Database Report that is produced periodically and

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made publicly available on the AHRQ Web site (see http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/2014/nhsurv14-ptI.pdf for the 2014 report); (2) Individual Nursing Home 
Survey Feedback Reports that are confidential, customized reports 
produced for each nursing home that submits data to the database (the 
number of reports produced is based on the number of nursing homes 
submitting in any given calendar year); and (3) Research data sets of 
individual-level and nursing home-level de-identified data to enable 
researchers to conduct analyses.
    Nursing homes are asked to voluntarily submit their Nursing Home 
SOPS survey data to the Comparative Database. The data are then cleaned 
and aggregated and used to produce a Comparative Database Report that 
displays averages, standard deviations, and percentile scores on the 
survey's 42 items and 12 patient safety culture dimensions, as well as 
displaying these results by nursing home characteristics (bed size, 
urbanicity, ownership, and Census Bureau Region, etc.) and respondent 
characteristics (work area/unit, staff position, and interaction with 
patients).
    Data submitted by nursing homes are also used to give each nursing 
home its own customized survey feedback report that presents the 
nursing home's results compared to the latest comparative database 
results. If a nursing home submits data more than once, its survey 
feedback report also presents trend data, comparing its previous and 
most recent data.
    Nursing homes use the Nursing Home SOPS, Comparative Database 
Reports and Individual Nursing Home Survey Feedback Reports for a 
number of purposes, to:
     Raise staff awareness about patient safety.
     Diagnose and assess the current status of patient safety 
culture in their nursing home.
     Identify strengths and areas for patient safety culture 
improvement.
     Examine trends in patient safety culture change over time.
     Evaluate the cultural impact of patient safety initiatives 
and interventions.
     Compare patient safety culture survey results with results 
of other nursing homes' efforts to improve patient safety and health 
care quality.

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden

    Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the 
respondents' time to participate in the database. An estimated 300 
POCs, each representing an average of 5 individual nursing homes each, 
will complete the database submission steps and forms annually. 
Completing the eligibility and registration form will take about 3 
minutes. Each POC will complete a data use agreement which takes about 
3 minutes to complete. The Nursing Home Site Information Form is 
completed by all POCs for each of their nursing homes (300 x 5 = 1,500 
forms in total) and is estimated to take 5 minutes to complete. The POC 
will submit data for all of the nursing homes he/she represents, which 
will take 1 hour on average. The total annual burden hours are 
estimated to be 455.
    The 300 respondents/POCs shown in Exhibit 1 are based on an 
estimate of nursing homes submitting data in the coming years, with the 
following assumptions:
     105 POCs for QIOs submitting on behalf of 10 nursing homes 
each
     18 POCs for vendors outside of QIOs submitting on behalf 
of 10 nursing homes each
     177 independent nursing homes submitting on their own 
behalf
    Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the 
respondents' time to submit their data. The cost burden is estimated to 
be $20,839 annually.

                                  Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of
                  Form name                        Number of       responses per     Hours per     Total burden
                                                respondents/POCs        POC          response          hours
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Eligibility/Registration Form................                300               1            3/60              15
Data Use Agreement...........................                300               1            3/60              15
Nursing Home Site Information Form...........                300               5            5/60             125
Data Files Submission........................                300               1               1             300
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    Total....................................              1,200              NA              NA             455
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                                   Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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                                                                                      Average
                  Form name                        Number of       Total burden     hourly wage     Total cost
                                                respondents/POCs       hours          rate *          burden
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Eligibility/Registration Forms...............                300              15          $45.80            $687
Data Use Agreement...........................                300              15           45.80             687
Nursing Home Site Information Form...........                300             125           45.80           5,725
Data Files Submission........................                300             300           45.80          13,740
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    Total....................................              1,200             455              NA          20,839
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* The wage rate in Exhibit 2 is based on May 2013 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage
  Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor. Mean hourly wages for nursing home POCs are
  located at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_623100.htm and http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/oes/current/naics2_62.htm. The hourly wage of $45.80 is the weighted mean of $47.97 (General and Operations
  Managers; N = 88), $40.07 (Medical and Health Services Managers; N = 89), $47.10 (General and Operations
  Managers; N = 105) and $55.94 (Computer and Information Systems Managers; N = 18).

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 health care research and 
health care information

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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.

Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director.
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                                                    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                 SOPS with OMB approval (OMB NO.                       appropriateness and value of health care
                                                    HUMAN SERVICES                                           0935–0132; Approved July 5, 2007).                    services; quality measurement and
                                                                                                                The survey is designed to enable                   improvement; and database
                                                    Agency for Healthcare Research and                       nursing homes to assess provider and                  development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2),
                                                    Quality                                                  staff opinions about patient safety                   and (8).
                                                                                                             issues, medical error, and error
                                                    Agency Information Collection                            reporting and includes 42 items that                  Method of Collection
                                                    Activities: Proposed Collection;                         measure 12 dimensions of patient safety                  To achieve the goal of this project the
                                                    Comment Request                                          culture. AHRQ made the survey                         following activities and data collections
                                                                                                             publicly available along with a Survey                will be implemented:
                                                    AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research                                                                            (1) Eligibility and Registration Form—
                                                    and Quality, HHS.                                        User’s Guide and other toolkit materials
                                                                                                             in November 2008 on the AHRQ Web                      The nursing home (or parent
                                                    ACTION: Notice.                                          site (located at http://www.ahrq.gov/                 organization) point of contact (POC)
                                                                                                             professionals/quality-patient-safety/                 completes a number of data submission
                                                    SUMMARY:   This notice announces the
                                                                                                             patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/                    steps and forms, beginning with the
                                                    intention of the Agency for Healthcare
                                                                                                             index.html).                                          completion of an online eligibility and
                                                    Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
                                                                                                                The AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS                         registration form. The purpose of this
                                                    that the Office of Management and                                                                              form is to determine the eligibility
                                                                                                             Comparative Database consists of data
                                                    Budget (OMB) approve the proposed                                                                              status and initiate the registration
                                                                                                             from the AHRQ Nursing Home SOPS.
                                                    information collection project: ‘‘Nursing                                                                      process for nursing homes seeking to
                                                                                                             Nursing homes in the U.S. are asked to
                                                    Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture                                                                          voluntarily submit their Nursing Home
                                                                                                             voluntarily submit data from the survey
                                                    Comparative Database.’’ In accordance                                                                          SOPS data to the Nursing Home SOPS
                                                                                                             to AHRQ through its contractor, Westat.
                                                    with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44                                                                           Comparative Database.
                                                                                                             The Nursing Home SOPS database
                                                    U.S.C. 3501–3521, AHRQ invites the                                                                                (2) Data Use Agreement—The purpose
                                                                                                             (OMB NO. 0935–0195, last approved on
                                                    public to comment on this proposed                                                                             of the data use agreement, completed by
                                                                                                             June 12, 2012) was developed by AHRQ
                                                    information collection.                                                                                        the nursing home POC, is to state how
                                                       This proposed information collection                  in 2011 in response to requests from
                                                                                                             nursing homes interested in knowing                   data submitted by nursing homes will
                                                    was previously published in the Federal                                                                        be used and provides confidentiality
                                                    Register on March 23rd, 2014 and                         how their patient safety culture survey
                                                                                                             results compare to those of other                     assurances.
                                                    allowed 60 days for public comment. No                                                                            (3) Nursing Home Site Information
                                                    comments were received. The purpose                      nursing homes in their efforts to
                                                                                                             improve patient safety.                               Form—The purpose of the site
                                                    of this notice is to allow an additional                                                                       information form is to obtain basic
                                                                                                                Rationale for the information
                                                    30 days for public comment.                                                                                    information about the characteristics of
                                                                                                             collection. The Nursing Home SOPS
                                                    DATES: Comments on this notice must be                   and the Comparative Database support                  the nursing homes submitting their
                                                    received by August 3, 2015.                              AHRQ’s goals of promoting                             Nursing Home SOPS data to the Nursing
                                                    ADDRESSES: Written comments should                       improvements in the quality and safety                Home SOPS Comparative Database (e.g.,
                                                    be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk                         of health care in nursing home settings.              bed size, urbanicity, ownership, and
                                                    Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974                         The survey, toolkit materials, and                    geographic region). The nursing home
                                                    (attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by                   comparative database results are all                  POC completes the form.
                                                    email at OIRA_submission@                                made publicly available on AHRQ’s                        (4) Data Files Submission—The
                                                    omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ’s desk                      Web site. Technical assistance is                     number of submissions to the database
                                                    officer). Copies of the proposed                         provided by AHRQ through its                          is likely to vary each year because
                                                    collection plans, data collection                        contractor at no charge to nursing                    nursing homes do not administer the
                                                    instruments, and specific details on the                 homes, to facilitate the use of these                 survey and submit data every year. Data
                                                    estimated burden can be obtained from                    materials for nursing home patient                    submission is typically handled by one
                                                    the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.                      safety and quality improvement.                       POC who is either a corporate level
                                                    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                            The goal of this project is to renew the           health care manager for a Quality
                                                    Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports                            Nursing Home SOPS Comparative                         Improvement Organization (QIO), a
                                                    Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by                 Database. This database will:                         survey vendor who contracts with a
                                                    email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.                      (1) Allow nursing homes to compare                 nursing home to collect its data, or a
                                                                                                             their patient safety culture survey                   nursing home Director of Nursing or
                                                    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                                                                             results with those of other nursing                   nurse manager. POCs submit data on
                                                    Proposed Project                                         homes,                                                behalf of 5 nursing homes, on average,
                                                                                                                (2) Provide data to nursing homes to               because many nursing homes are part of
                                                    Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety                                                                          a QIO or larger nursing home or health
                                                                                                             facilitate internal assessment and
                                                    Culture Comparative Database                                                                                   system that includes many nursing
                                                                                                             learning in the patient safety
                                                      Background on the Nursing Home                         improvement process, and                              home sites, or the POC is a vendor that
                                                    Survey on Patient Safety Culture                            (3) Provide supplemental information               is submitting data for multiple nursing
                                                    (Nursing Home SOPS). In 1999, the                        to help nursing homes identify their                  homes. POCs upload their data file(s),
                                                    Institute of Medicine called for health                  strengths and areas with potential for                using the nursing home data file
                                                    care organizations to develop a ‘‘culture                improvement in patient safety culture.                specifications, to ensure that users
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                                                    of safety’’ such that their workforce and                   This study is being conducted by                   submit standardized and consistent data
                                                    processes focus on improving the                         AHRQ through its contractor, Westat,                  in the way variables are named, coded,
                                                    reliability and safety of care for patients              pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority                and formatted.
                                                    (IOM, 1999; To Err is Human: Building                    to conduct and support research on                       Survey data from the AHRQ Nursing
                                                    a Safer Health System). To respond to                    health care and on systems for the                    Home Survey SOPS are used to produce
                                                    the need for tools to assess patient safety              delivery of such care, including                      three types of products: (1) A Nursing
                                                    culture in health care, AHRQ developed                   activities with respect to: The quality,              Home SOPS Comparative Database
                                                    and pilot tested the Nursing Home                        effectiveness, efficiency,                            Report that is produced periodically and


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                                                    made publicly available on the AHRQ                                        own customized survey feedback report                             representing an average of 5 individual
                                                    Web site (see http://www.ahrq.gov/                                         that presents the nursing home’s results                          nursing homes each, will complete the
                                                    professionals/quality-patient-safety/                                      compared to the latest comparative                                database submission steps and forms
                                                    patientsafetyculture/nursing-home/                                         database results. If a nursing home                               annually. Completing the eligibility and
                                                    2014/nhsurv14-ptI.pdf for the 2014                                         submits data more than once, its survey                           registration form will take about 3
                                                    report); (2) Individual Nursing Home                                       feedback report also presents trend data,                         minutes. Each POC will complete a data
                                                    Survey Feedback Reports that are                                           comparing its previous and most recent                            use agreement which takes about 3
                                                    confidential, customized reports                                           data.                                                             minutes to complete. The Nursing Home
                                                    produced for each nursing home that                                          Nursing homes use the Nursing Home                              Site Information Form is completed by
                                                    submits data to the database (the                                          SOPS, Comparative Database Reports                                all POCs for each of their nursing homes
                                                    number of reports produced is based on                                     and Individual Nursing Home Survey                                (300 × 5 = 1,500 forms in total) and is
                                                    the number of nursing homes                                                Feedback Reports for a number of                                  estimated to take 5 minutes to complete.
                                                    submitting in any given calendar year);                                    purposes, to:                                                     The POC will submit data for all of the
                                                    and (3) Research data sets of individual-                                    • Raise staff awareness about patient                           nursing homes he/she represents, which
                                                    level and nursing home-level de-                                           safety.                                                           will take 1 hour on average. The total
                                                    identified data to enable researchers to                                     • Diagnose and assess the current                               annual burden hours are estimated to be
                                                    conduct analyses.                                                          status of patient safety culture in their                         455.
                                                       Nursing homes are asked to                                              nursing home.                                                        The 300 respondents/POCs shown in
                                                    voluntarily submit their Nursing Home                                        • Identify strengths and areas for                              Exhibit 1 are based on an estimate of
                                                    SOPS survey data to the Comparative                                        patient safety culture improvement.                               nursing homes submitting data in the
                                                    Database. The data are then cleaned and                                      • Examine trends in patient safety                              coming years, with the following
                                                    aggregated and used to produce a                                           culture change over time.                                         assumptions:
                                                    Comparative Database Report that                                             • Evaluate the cultural impact of                                  • 105 POCs for QIOs submitting on
                                                    displays averages, standard deviations,                                    patient safety initiatives and                                    behalf of 10 nursing homes each
                                                    and percentile scores on the survey’s 42                                   interventions.
                                                    items and 12 patient safety culture                                          • Compare patient safety culture                                   • 18 POCs for vendors outside of
                                                    dimensions, as well as displaying these                                    survey results with results of other                              QIOs submitting on behalf of 10 nursing
                                                    results by nursing home characteristics                                    nursing homes’ efforts to improve                                 homes each
                                                    (bed size, urbanicity, ownership, and                                      patient safety and health care quality.                              • 177 independent nursing homes
                                                    Census Bureau Region, etc.) and                                                                                                              submitting on their own behalf
                                                                                                                               Estimated Annual Respondent Burden                                   Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
                                                    respondent characteristics (work area/
                                                    unit, staff position, and interaction with                                   Exhibit 1 shows the estimated                                   annualized cost burden based on the
                                                    patients).                                                                 annualized burden hours for the                                   respondents’ time to submit their data.
                                                       Data submitted by nursing homes are                                     respondents’ time to participate in the                           The cost burden is estimated to be
                                                    also used to give each nursing home its                                    database. An estimated 300 POCs, each                             $20,839 annually.

                                                                                                                   EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
                                                                                                                                                                            Number of            Number of         Hours per     Total burden
                                                                                                  Form name                                                                respondents/        responses per       response         hours
                                                                                                                                                                              POCs                 POC

                                                    Eligibility/Registration Form .......................................................................                               300                  1            3/60             15
                                                    Data Use Agreement .................................................................................                                300                  1            3/60             15
                                                    Nursing Home Site Information Form ........................................................                                         300                  5            5/60            125
                                                    Data Files Submission ...............................................................................                               300                  1               1            300

                                                          Total ....................................................................................................                   1,200               NA              NA             455


                                                                                                                    EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
                                                                                                                                                                            Number of                               Average
                                                                                                                                                                                                Total burden                      Total cost
                                                                                                  Form name                                                                respondents/                           hourly wage
                                                                                                                                                                                                   hours                           burden
                                                                                                                                                                              POCs                                   rate *

                                                    Eligibility/Registration Forms .....................................................................                                300                15           $45.80          $687
                                                    Data Use Agreement .................................................................................                                300                15            45.80            687
                                                    Nursing Home Site Information Form ........................................................                                         300               125            45.80          5,725
                                                    Data Files Submission ...............................................................................                               300               300            45.80         13,740

                                                          Total ....................................................................................................                   1,200              455              NA          20,839
                                                       * The wage rate in Exhibit 2 is based on May 2013 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Bureau of Labor
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                                                    Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor. Mean hourly wages for nursing home POCs are located at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_623100.htm and
                                                    http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/oes/current/naics2_62.htm. The hourly wage of $45.80 is the weighted mean of $47.97 (General and Operations
                                                    Managers; N = 88), $40.07 (Medical and Health Services Managers; N = 89), $47.10 (General and Operations Managers; N = 105) and $55.94
                                                    (Computer and Information Systems Managers; N = 18).


                                                    Request for Comments                                                       information collection are requested                              information is necessary for the proper
                                                      In accordance with the Paperwork                                         with regard to any of the following: (a)                          performance of AHRQ health care
                                                    Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s                                          Whether the proposed collection of                                research and health care information



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                                                    dissemination functions, including                       on (301) 827–4840, no later than Friday,              DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                                                    whether the information will have                        July 10, 2015. The agenda, roster, and                HUMAN SERVICES
                                                    practical utility; (b) the accuracy of                   minutes are available from Ms. Bonnie
                                                    AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including                     Campbell, Committee Management                        Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
                                                    hours and costs) of the proposed                         Officer, Agency for Healthcare Research               Services
                                                    collection(s) of information; (c) ways to                and Quality, 540 Gaither Road,                        [Document Identifier: CMS–10539]
                                                    enhance the quality, utility, and clarity                Rockville, Maryland, 20850. Ms.
                                                    of the information to be collected; and                  Campbell’s phone number is (301) 427–                 Agency Information Collection
                                                    (d) ways to minimize the burden of the                   1554.                                                 Activities: Submission for OMB
                                                    collection of information upon the                                                                             Review; Comment Request
                                                                                                             SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                    respondents, including the use of
                                                    automated collection techniques or                       I. Purpose                                            ACTION:   Notice.
                                                    other forms of information technology.                                                                         SUMMARY:    The Centers for Medicare &
                                                      Comments submitted in response to                        The National Advisory Council for
                                                                                                             Healthcare Research and Quality is                    Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing
                                                    this notice will be summarized and                                                                             an opportunity for the public to
                                                    included in the Agency’s subsequent                      authorized by section 941 of the Public
                                                                                                             Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 299c. In                comment on CMS’ intention to collect
                                                    request for OMB approval of the                                                                                information from the public. Under the
                                                    proposed information collection. All                     accordance with its statutory mandate,
                                                                                                             the Council is to advise the Secretary of             Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
                                                    comments will become a matter of                                                                               (PRA), federal agencies are required to
                                                    public record.                                           the Department of Health and Human
                                                                                                             Services and the Director, Agency for                 publish notice in the Federal Register
                                                    Sharon B. Arnold,                                        Healthcare Research and Quality                       concerning each proposed collection of
                                                    Deputy Director.                                         (AHRQ), on matters related to AHRQ’s                  information, including each proposed
                                                                                                                                                                   extension or reinstatement of an existing
                                                    [FR Doc. 2015–16347 Filed 7–1–15; 8:45 am]               conduct of its mission including
                                                                                                                                                                   collection of information, and to allow
                                                    BILLING CODE 4160–90–P                                   providing guidance on (A) priorities for
                                                                                                                                                                   a second opportunity for public
                                                                                                             health care research, (B) the field of
                                                                                                                                                                   comment on the notice. Interested
                                                                                                             health care research including training
                                                    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                                                                       persons are invited to send comments
                                                                                                             needs and information dissemination on
                                                    HUMAN SERVICES                                                                                                 regarding the burden estimate or any
                                                                                                             health care quality and (C) the role of
                                                                                                                                                                   other aspect of this collection of
                                                                                                             the Agency in light of private sector
                                                    Agency for Healthcare Research and                                                                             information, including any of the
                                                                                                             activity and opportunities for public
                                                    Quality                                                                                                        following subjects: (1) The necessity and
                                                                                                             private partnerships.
                                                                                                                                                                   utility of the proposed information
                                                    Meeting of the National Advisory                           The Council is composed of members                  collection for the proper performance of
                                                    Council for Healthcare Research and                      of the public, appointed by the                       the agency’s functions; (2) the accuracy
                                                    Quality                                                  Secretary, and Federal ex-officio                     of the estimated burden; (3) ways to
                                                                                                             members specified in the authorizing                  enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
                                                    AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research                   legislation.                                          of the information to be collected; and
                                                    and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.                                                                                       (4) the use of automated collection
                                                    ACTION: Notice of public meeting.                        II. Agenda
                                                                                                                                                                   techniques or other forms of information
                                                                                                                On Friday, July 24, 2015, there will be            technology to minimize the information
                                                    SUMMARY:     In accordance with section
                                                                                                             a subcommittee meeting for the National               collection burden.
                                                    10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee
                                                    Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, this notice                        Healthcare Quality and Disparities                    DATES: Comments on the collection(s) of
                                                    announces a meeting of the National                      Report scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m.                information must be received by the
                                                    Advisory Council for Healthcare                          The subcommittee meeting is open the                  OMB desk officer by August 3, 2015.
                                                    Research and Quality.                                    public. The Council meeting will                      ADDRESSES: When commenting on the
                                                                                                             convene at 8:30 a.m., with the call to                proposed information collections,
                                                    DATES: The meeting will be held on
                                                                                                             order by the Council Chair and approval               please reference the document identifier
                                                    Friday, July 24, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. to
                                                                                                             of previous Council summary notes. The                or OMB control number. To be assured
                                                    2:45 p.m.
                                                                                                             meeting is open to the public and will                consideration, comments and
                                                    ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at                   be available via webcast at                           recommendations must be received by
                                                    the Eisenberg Conference Center,                         www.webconferences.com/ahrq . The                     the OMB desk officer via one of the
                                                    Agency for Healthcare Research and                       meeting will begin with the AHRQ                      following transmissions: OMB, Office of
                                                    Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville,                    Director presenting an update on                      Information and Regulatory Affairs,
                                                    Maryland 20850.                                          current research, programs, and                       Attention: CMS Desk Officer, Fax
                                                    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                         initiatives. Following the Director’s                 Number: (202) 395–5806 or Email:
                                                    Jaime Zimmerman, Designated                              Update, the agenda will include an                    OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
                                                    Management Official, at the Agency for                   update on the National Healthcare                        To obtain copies of a supporting
                                                    Healthcare Research and Quality, 540                     Quality and Disparities Report and a                  statement and any related forms for the
                                                    Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland,                       discussion on cost and quality                        proposed collection(s) summarized in
                                                    20850, (301) 427–1456. For press-related
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                                                                                                             transparency. The final agenda will be                this notice, you may make your request
                                                    information, please contact Alison Hunt                  available on the AHRQ Web site at                     using one of following:
                                                    at (301) 427–1244.                                       www.AHRQ.gov no later than Friday,                       1. Access CMS’ Web site address at
                                                       If sign language interpretation or other              July 17, 2015.                                        http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Paperwork
                                                    reasonable accommodation for a                                                                                 ReductionActof1995.
                                                    disability is needed, please contact the                 Sharon B. Arnold,                                        2. Email your request, including your
                                                    Food and Drug Administration (FDA)                       Deputy Director.                                      address, phone number, OMB number,
                                                    Office of Equal Employment                               [FR Doc. 2015–16348 Filed 7–1–15; 8:45 am]            and CMS document identifier, to
                                                    Opportunity and Diversity Management                     BILLING CODE 4160–90–P                                Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov.


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesComments on this notice must be received by August 3, 2015.
ContactDoris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 38205 

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