82_FR_10515 82 FR 10487 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

82 FR 10487 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 28 (February 13, 2017)

Page Range10487-10489
FR Document2017-02893

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 ``The Re-Engineered Visit for Primary Care (AHRQ REV).'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 28 (Monday, February 13, 2017)
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 28 (Monday, February 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
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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 ``The Re-Engineered Visit for Primary Care (AHRQ REV).'' In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, AHRQ invites the public to 
comment on this proposed information collection.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by April 14, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at 
[email protected].
    Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection 
instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be 
obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by emails at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Proposed Project

The Re-Engineered Visit for Primary Care (AHRQ REV)

    This project--The Re-engineered Visit for Primary Care (AHRQ REV)--
directly addresses the agency's goal to conduct research to enhance the 
quality of health care and reduction of avoidable readmissions, which 
are a major indicator of poor quality and patient safety. Research from 
AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) indicates that in 
2011 there were approximately 3.3 million adult hospital readmissions 
in the United States. Adults covered by Medicare have the highest 
readmission rate (17.2 per 100 admissions), followed by adults covered 
by Medicaid (14.6 per 100 admissions) and privately insured adults (8.7 
per 100 admissions). High rates of readmissions are a major patient 
safety problem associated with medical errors such as prescribing 
errors and misdiagnoses of conditions in the hospital and ambulatory 
care settings. Collectively these readmissions are associated with 
$41.3 billion in annual hospital costs, many of which could potentially 
be avoided. The post-hospital discharge is a handoff ripe with hazards, 
potentially leading to an array of adverse events including the 
development of new or worsening symptoms, unplanned readmissions, and 
increased costs.
    In recent years, payer and provider efforts to reduce readmissions 
have proliferated. Many of these national programs have been informed 
or guided by evidence-based research, toolkits and guides, such as 
AHRQ's RED (Re-Engineered Discharge), STAAR (State Action on Avoidable 
Readmission), AHRQ's Project BOOST (Better Outcomes by Optimizing Safe 
Transitions), the Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions, and 
Eric Coleman's Care Transitions Intervention. These efforts have 
largely focused on enhancing practices occurring within the hospital 
setting, including the discharge process and handoffs to receiving 
providers or settings of care. While many of these efforts have 
recognized the critical role of primary care in managing care 
transitions, they have not had an explicit focus on enhancing primary 
care with the aim of reducing avoidable readmissions.
    Evidence-based guidance for the primary care setting to reduce 
readmissions and improve patient safety are comparatively lacking, and 
this gap in the literature is becoming more pronounced as primary care 
is increasingly being called to serve as the key integrator role across 
the health system as part of payment and delivery system reforms. This 
research project aims to address the important and unfulfilled need to 
improve patient safety and reduce avoidable readmissions within the 
primary care context.
    AHRQ's goals in supporting this 30-month project are to build on 
the knowledge base from the inpatient settings, add to the expanding 
evidence base on preventing readmissions by focusing on the primary 
care setting, and provide insight on the components and themes that 
should be part of a re-engineered visit in primary care that will 
ultimately inform an effective intervention that can be tested in a 
diverse set of primary care clinics.
    To meet AHRQ's goals and objectives, the agency awarded a task 
order to John Snow, Inc. (JSI) to conduct a combination of qualitative 
research and quality improvement techniques to investigate the primary 
care-based transitional care workflow from the primary care staff, 
patient, and community agency perspective.
    This research has the following goals:
    1. Analyze current processes in the primary care visit associated 
with hospital discharge; and
    2. Identify components of the re-engineered visit.
    This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor 
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 vale of health care services and with respect to 
quality measurement and improvement. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).

Method of Collection

    To analyze current processes in the primary care visit associated 
with hospital discharge, the data collection has separated into seven 
smaller data collection activities to minimize research participant 
burden while still allowing for the collection of necessary data. Each 
of these tasks will be conducted at nine primary care sites:
    1. Primary care site organizational characteristics survey: The 
purpose of this background information on the primary care site's 
organizational characteristics is to offer context for the work flow 
mapping. It will help make the work flow mapping process more efficient 
and reduce burden by only requesting information that is already known 
by a site contact at each of the nine primary care practices. One 
person per primary care site will be engaged for this task.
    2. Primary care site patient characteristics survey: The purpose of 
this background information on the primary care site's patients is to 
offer context for the work flow mapping. It will help make the work 
flow mapping process more efficient and reduce burden by only 
requesting information that is already known in the primary care 
practices' billing or clinical information systems. One person per

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primary care site will be engaged for this task.
    3. Work flow mapping preliminary interviews: The purpose of this 
flow mapping ``pre-work'' is to engage individual primary care staff 
members to think about what the work flow map looks like, setting a 
foundation for the actual work flow mapping process. We anticipate that 
eight individuals per primary care site will participate, for a total 
of 72 participants.
    4. Process flow mapping: This collection will take place in a group 
meeting that brings together available staff from various role types to 
collaborate in identifying their workflow processes involved in 
planning for and executing post-hospital follow up services for their 
practices' patients. Based on feasibility these may be smaller or 
larger group meetings, but the total burden on each role type 
participant is the same. The end goal of this meeting is to have enough 
information to have an initial process flow map on paper. We anticipate 
that 10 individuals per primary care site will participate, for a total 
of 90 participants.
    5. Work flow mapping follow-up interviews: Once the initial process 
flow map is on paper, each role type will be asked to review to 
correct, add, or confirm detail to the document. Once the flow map has 
been edited and ratified by the primary care site staff, each role type 
will be asked specific questions regarding failure modes identified in 
the process flow for the failure mode effects analysis. We anticipate 
that eight individuals per primary care site will participate, for a 
total of 72 participants.
    6. Patient Interviews: As a complementary piece of research to the 
work flow mapping, there would also be a process flow map from the 
patient's perspective. The purpose of the patient interviews is to 
capture patient perspectives on potential breakdowns in making the 
transition from the hospital to care in the primary care settings and 
to get, in their own words, information about the initial 
hospitalization and barriers to accessing follow-up care. One of the 
widely acknowledged limitations of the existing evidence based toolkits 
is that they are not designed with input from patients. This has 
occurred despite the fact that clinical experience suggests that 
providers often fail to identify patient needs and concerns and fail to 
plan accordingly in both hospital and primary care settings. Research 
has shown that there are cultural, social and behavioral factors that 
may contribute to readmissions and assessing the patient's perspective 
can help to better understand the barriers to receiving appropriate 
follow-up care. Patient and family interviews are increasingly common 
practices in efforts to improve care transitions and reduce 
readmissions, endorsed by CMS, the Institute for Healthcare 
Improvement, and Kaiser Permanente, among others. The patient interview 
is collecting unique information on the barriers to effective care 
transitions in the post-discharge period care, information which cannot 
be collected in other ways. Ten patients post-discharge from each of 
the nine primary care sites will be interviewed for a total of 90 
patients.
    7. Community agency interviews: As a complementary piece of 
research to the work flow mapping, the process flow map will reflect 
the perspective of community agencies affiliated with the primary care 
sites to assist patients. Five community agency representatives from 
each of the nine primary care sites will be interviewed.
    The purpose of this data collection is to understand the key 
components that should be included in the re-engineered visit in 
primary care. The project team will examine the diverse settings, 
staff, and transitional care activities across a variety of primary 
care practices to identify key transitional care processes that impact 
patient outcomes, the challenges to implementing those processes, and 
ways to improve those processes. The project team will distill the 
themes/principles that should be a part of the re-engineered visit and 
develop an outline and summary of itscomponents, with a comparison/
contrast of the components across sites and discussion of the 
generalizability of these components to different settings. The 
information identified from this research will add to the expanding 
evidence base on preventing readmissions by focusing on the primary 
care setting, and provide insight on the components and themes that 
should be part of a re-engineered visit that will ultimately inform an 
effective intervention that can be tested in a diverse set of primary 
care clinics.

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden

    Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden hours to the respondents for 
providing all of the data needed to meet the project's objectives. The 
hours estimated per responses are based on the pilot project results.
    For the primary care site organizational characteristics survey and 
patient characteristics survey, one person per each of the nine primary 
care sites will participate. Both surveys are anticipated to take 1.5 
hours to complete.
    For the work flow mapping preliminary interviews, we estimate that 
eight primary care staff per primary care site will participate, with 
each individual spending 0.5 hours in these interviews. For the work 
flow mapping group interview, we estimate that 10 primary care staff 
per primary care site will participate, with each individual spending 
1.5 hours in these interviews. Finally, we estimate that eight primary 
care staff per primary care site will participate in the work flow 
mapping follow-up interviews, with each individual spending 0.5 hours 
in this data collection activity.
    There will be 10 patients interviewed in association with each 
primary care site. These patient interviews are expected to take 0.5 
hours per individual research participant.
    Lastly, there will be five community agency staff members 
interviewed in association with each primary care site. These 
interviews are expected to take 1 hour per individual research 
participant.
    Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost burden for the respondents' time 
to participate in the project. The total annualized cost burden is 
estimated at $11,500.30.

                                  Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of
                    Form name                        Number of     responses per     Hours per     Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       response          hours
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Primary care site organizational characteristics               9               1             1.5            13.5
 survey.........................................
Primary care site patient characteristics survey               9               1             1.5            13.5
Work flow mapping preliminary interview.........              72               1             0.5              36
Work flow mapping group interview...............              90               1             1.5             135
Work flow mapping follow-up interview...........              72               1             0.5              36
Patient interview...............................              90               1             0.5              45

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Community agency interview......................              45               1               1              45
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    Total.......................................             387             n/a             n/a           2,628
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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        hours          rate *          burden
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Primary care site organizational characteristics               9            13.5      \a\ $40.41         $545.54
 survey.........................................
Primary care site patient characteristics survey               9            13.5       \a\ 40.41          545.54
Work flow mapping preliminary interview.........              72              36       \a\ 40.41        1,454.76
Work flow mapping group interview...............              90             135       \a\ 40.41        5,455.35
Work flow mapping follow-up interview...........              72              36       \a\ 40.41        1,454.76
Patient interview...............................              90              45       \b\ 23.23        1,045.35
Community agency interview......................              45              45       \c\ 22.20          999.00
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................             387             n/a             n/a       11,500.30
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* For hourly average wage rates, mean hourly wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) May 2015 national
  occupational employment wage estimates were used. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
\a\ Participants will include a mix of providers and front desk staff; therefore a blended rate for these tasks
  are used including Nurse ($33.55), Medical Assistant ($15.01 \1\), Front Desk Staff ($13.38 \2\), Program
  Director ($32.56), Pharmacist ($56.96), Physician ($91.60), Behavioral health provider ($22.03).
\b\ Based upon the mean wages for consumers (all occupations).
\c\ Based upon the mean wages for Social Workers.

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    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 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,
Acting Director.
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                                                  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                        Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project               base on preventing readmissions by
                                                  Theresa Kingsberry, Program Support                     (HCUP) indicates that in 2011 there                   focusing on the primary care setting,
                                                  Specialist, Federal Trade Commission                    were approximately 3.3 million adult                  and provide insight on the components
                                                  Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of                hospital readmissions in the United                   and themes that should be part of a re-
                                                  Competition, Room CC–5301,                              States. Adults covered by Medicare have               engineered visit in primary care that
                                                  Washington, DC 20024, (202) 326–3100.                   the highest readmission rate (17.2 per                will ultimately inform an effective
                                                    By direction of the Commission.                       100 admissions), followed by adults                   intervention that can be tested in a
                                                                                                          covered by Medicaid (14.6 per 100                     diverse set of primary care clinics.
                                                  Donald S. Clark,
                                                                                                          admissions) and privately insured                        To meet AHRQ’s goals and objectives,
                                                  Secretary.                                                                                                    the agency awarded a task order to John
                                                                                                          adults (8.7 per 100 admissions). High
                                                  [FR Doc. 2017–02892 Filed 2–10–17; 8:45 am]             rates of readmissions are a major patient             Snow, Inc. (JSI) to conduct a
                                                  BILLING CODE 6750–01–P                                  safety problem associated with medical                combination of qualitative research and
                                                                                                          errors such as prescribing errors and                 quality improvement techniques to
                                                                                                          misdiagnoses of conditions in the                     investigate the primary care-based
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                hospital and ambulatory care settings.                transitional care workflow from the
                                                  HUMAN SERVICES                                          Collectively these readmissions are                   primary care staff, patient, and
                                                                                                          associated with $41.3 billion in annual               community agency perspective.
                                                  Agency for Healthcare Research and                      hospital costs, many of which could                      This research has the following goals:
                                                  Quality                                                 potentially be avoided. The post-                        1. Analyze current processes in the
                                                                                                          hospital discharge is a handoff ripe with             primary care visit associated with
                                                  Agency Information Collection                           hazards, potentially leading to an array              hospital discharge; and
                                                  Activities: Proposed Collection;                        of adverse events including the                          2. Identify components of the re-
                                                  Comment Request                                         development of new or worsening                       engineered visit.
                                                  AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research                  symptoms, unplanned readmissions,                        This study is being conducted by
                                                  and Quality, HHS.                                       and increased costs.                                  AHRQ through its contractor pursuant
                                                                                                             In recent years, payer and provider                to AHRQ’s statutory authority to
                                                  ACTION: Notice.
                                                                                                          efforts to reduce readmissions have                   conduct and support research on health
                                                  SUMMARY:   This notice announces the                    proliferated. Many of these national                  care and on systems for the delivery of
                                                  intention of the Agency for Healthcare                  programs have been informed or guided                 such care, including activities with
                                                  Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request                  by evidence-based research, toolkits and              respect to the quality, effectiveness,
                                                  that the Office of Management and                       guides, such as AHRQ’s RED (Re-                       efficiency, appropriateness and vale of
                                                  Budget (OMB) approve the proposed                       Engineered Discharge), STAAR (State                   health care services and with respect to
                                                  information collection project ‘‘The Re-                Action on Avoidable Readmission),                     quality measurement and improvement.
                                                  Engineered Visit for Primary Care                       AHRQ’s Project BOOST (Better                          42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
                                                  (AHRQ REV).’’ In accordance with the                    Outcomes by Optimizing Safe                           Method of Collection
                                                  Paperwork Reduction Act, AHRQ                           Transitions), the Hospital Guide to
                                                                                                          Reducing Medicaid Readmissions, and                      To analyze current processes in the
                                                  invites the public to comment on this
                                                                                                          Eric Coleman’s Care Transitions                       primary care visit associated with
                                                  proposed information collection.
                                                                                                          Intervention. These efforts have largely              hospital discharge, the data collection
                                                  DATES: Comments on this notice must be                                                                        has separated into seven smaller data
                                                                                                          focused on enhancing practices
                                                  received by April 14, 2017.                                                                                   collection activities to minimize
                                                                                                          occurring within the hospital setting,
                                                  ADDRESSES: Written comments should                      including the discharge process and                   research participant burden while still
                                                  be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,                       handoffs to receiving providers or                    allowing for the collection of necessary
                                                  Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by                     settings of care. While many of these                 data. Each of these tasks will be
                                                  email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.                  efforts have recognized the critical role             conducted at nine primary care sites:
                                                    Copies of the proposed collection                     of primary care in managing care                         1. Primary care site organizational
                                                  plans, data collection instruments, and                 transitions, they have not had an                     characteristics survey: The purpose of
                                                  specific details on the estimated burden                explicit focus on enhancing primary                   this background information on the
                                                  can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports                   care with the aim of reducing avoidable               primary care site’s organizational
                                                  Clearance Officer.                                      readmissions.                                         characteristics is to offer context for the
                                                  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                           Evidence-based guidance for the                    work flow mapping. It will help make
                                                  Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports                           primary care setting to reduce                        the work flow mapping process more
                                                  Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by                readmissions and improve patient safety               efficient and reduce burden by only
                                                  emails at doris.lefkowitz@                              are comparatively lacking, and this gap               requesting information that is already
                                                  AHRQ.hhs.gov.                                           in the literature is becoming more                    known by a site contact at each of the
                                                                                                          pronounced as primary care is                         nine primary care practices. One person
                                                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                                                                          increasingly being called to serve as the             per primary care site will be engaged for
                                                  Proposed Project                                        key integrator role across the health                 this task.
                                                                                                          system as part of payment and delivery                   2. Primary care site patient
                                                  The Re-Engineered Visit for Primary                                                                           characteristics survey: The purpose of
                                                                                                          system reforms. This research project
                                                  Care (AHRQ REV)                                                                                               this background information on the
                                                                                                          aims to address the important and
                                                    This project—The Re-engineered Visit                                                                        primary care site’s patients is to offer
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                                                                                                          unfulfilled need to improve patient
                                                  for Primary Care (AHRQ REV)—directly                    safety and reduce avoidable                           context for the work flow mapping. It
                                                  addresses the agency’s goal to conduct                  readmissions within the primary care                  will help make the work flow mapping
                                                  research to enhance the quality of health               context.                                              process more efficient and reduce
                                                  care and reduction of avoidable                            AHRQ’s goals in supporting this 30-                burden by only requesting information
                                                  readmissions, which are a major                         month project are to build on the                     that is already known in the primary
                                                  indicator of poor quality and patient                   knowledge base from the inpatient                     care practices’ billing or clinical
                                                  safety. Research from AHRQ’s                            settings, add to the expanding evidence               information systems. One person per


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                                                  primary care site will be engaged for                                   that they are not designed with input                         evidence base on preventing
                                                  this task.                                                              from patients. This has occurred despite                      readmissions by focusing on the
                                                     3. Work flow mapping preliminary                                     the fact that clinical experience suggests                    primary care setting, and provide
                                                  interviews: The purpose of this flow                                    that providers often fail to identify                         insight on the components and themes
                                                  mapping ‘‘pre-work’’ is to engage                                       patient needs and concerns and fail to                        that should be part of a re-engineered
                                                  individual primary care staff members                                   plan accordingly in both hospital and                         visit that will ultimately inform an
                                                  to think about what the work flow map                                   primary care settings. Research has                           effective intervention that can be tested
                                                  looks like, setting a foundation for the                                shown that there are cultural, social and                     in a diverse set of primary care clinics.
                                                  actual work flow mapping process. We                                    behavioral factors that may contribute to
                                                  anticipate that eight individuals per                                   readmissions and assessing the patient’s                      Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
                                                  primary care site will participate, for a                               perspective can help to better                                   Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden
                                                  total of 72 participants.                                               understand the barriers to receiving                          hours to the respondents for providing
                                                     4. Process flow mapping: This                                        appropriate follow-up care. Patient and                       all of the data needed to meet the
                                                  collection will take place in a group                                   family interviews are increasingly                            project’s objectives. The hours estimated
                                                  meeting that brings together available                                  common practices in efforts to improve                        per responses are based on the pilot
                                                  staff from various role types to                                        care transitions and reduce                                   project results.
                                                  collaborate in identifying their                                        readmissions, endorsed by CMS, the
                                                  workflow processes involved in                                                                                                           For the primary care site
                                                                                                                          Institute for Healthcare Improvement,
                                                  planning for and executing post-hospital                                and Kaiser Permanente, among others.                          organizational characteristics survey
                                                  follow up services for their practices’                                 The patient interview is collecting                           and patient characteristics survey, one
                                                  patients. Based on feasibility these may                                unique information on the barriers to                         person per each of the nine primary care
                                                  be smaller or larger group meetings, but                                effective care transitions in the post-                       sites will participate. Both surveys are
                                                  the total burden on each role type                                      discharge period care, information                            anticipated to take 1.5 hours to
                                                  participant is the same. The end goal of                                which cannot be collected in other                            complete.
                                                  this meeting is to have enough                                          ways. Ten patients post-discharge from                           For the work flow mapping
                                                  information to have an initial process                                  each of the nine primary care sites will                      preliminary interviews, we estimate that
                                                  flow map on paper. We anticipate that                                   be interviewed for a total of 90 patients.                    eight primary care staff per primary care
                                                  10 individuals per primary care site will                                  7. Community agency interviews: As                         site will participate, with each
                                                  participate, for a total of 90 participants.                            a complementary piece of research to                          individual spending 0.5 hours in these
                                                     5. Work flow mapping follow-up                                       the work flow mapping, the process                            interviews. For the work flow mapping
                                                  interviews: Once the initial process flow                               flow map will reflect the perspective of                      group interview, we estimate that 10
                                                  map is on paper, each role type will be                                 community agencies affiliated with the                        primary care staff per primary care site
                                                  asked to review to correct, add, or                                     primary care sites to assist patients. Five                   will participate, with each individual
                                                  confirm detail to the document. Once                                    community agency representatives from                         spending 1.5 hours in these interviews.
                                                  the flow map has been edited and                                        each of the nine primary care sites will                      Finally, we estimate that eight primary
                                                  ratified by the primary care site staff,                                be interviewed.                                               care staff per primary care site will
                                                  each role type will be asked specific                                      The purpose of this data collection is                     participate in the work flow mapping
                                                  questions regarding failure modes                                       to understand the key components that                         follow-up interviews, with each
                                                  identified in the process flow for the                                  should be included in the re-engineered                       individual spending 0.5 hours in this
                                                  failure mode effects analysis. We                                       visit in primary care. The project team                       data collection activity.
                                                  anticipate that eight individuals per                                   will examine the diverse settings, staff,                        There will be 10 patients interviewed
                                                  primary care site will participate, for a                               and transitional care activities across a                     in association with each primary care
                                                  total of 72 participants.                                               variety of primary care practices to                          site. These patient interviews are
                                                     6. Patient Interviews: As a                                          identify key transitional care processes                      expected to take 0.5 hours per
                                                  complementary piece of research to the                                  that impact patient outcomes, the                             individual research participant.
                                                  work flow mapping, there would also be                                  challenges to implementing those
                                                  a process flow map from the patient’s                                   processes, and ways to improve those                             Lastly, there will be five community
                                                  perspective. The purpose of the patient                                 processes. The project team will distill                      agency staff members interviewed in
                                                  interviews is to capture patient                                        the themes/principles that should be a                        association with each primary care site.
                                                  perspectives on potential breakdowns in                                 part of the re-engineered visit and                           These interviews are expected to take 1
                                                  making the transition from the hospital                                 develop an outline and summary of                             hour per individual research
                                                  to care in the primary care settings and                                itscomponents, with a comparison/                             participant.
                                                  to get, in their own words, information                                 contrast of the components across sites                          Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost
                                                  about the initial hospitalization and                                   and discussion of the generalizability of                     burden for the respondents’ time to
                                                  barriers to accessing follow-up care. One                               these components to different settings.                       participate in the project. The total
                                                  of the widely acknowledged limitations                                  The information identified from this                          annualized cost burden is estimated at
                                                  of the existing evidence based toolkits is                              research will add to the expanding                            $11,500.30.

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

                                                  Primary care site organizational characteristics survey ..................................                                      9                 1             1.5            13.5
                                                  Primary care site patient characteristics survey ..............................................                                 9                 1             1.5            13.5
                                                  Work flow mapping preliminary interview ........................................................                               72                 1             0.5              36
                                                  Work flow mapping group interview ................................................................                             90                 1             1.5             135
                                                  Work flow mapping follow-up interview ...........................................................                              72                 1             0.5              36
                                                  Patient interview ..............................................................................................               90                 1             0.5              45



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                                                                                         Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 28 / Monday, February 13, 2017 / Notices                                                                      10489

                                                                                                     EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
                                                                                                                                                                                              Number of
                                                                                                                                                                            Number of                           Hours per         Total burden
                                                                                                   Form name                                                                                responses per
                                                                                                                                                                           respondents                          response             hours
                                                                                                                                                                                              respondent

                                                  Community agency interview ...........................................................................                               45                 1                   1                 45

                                                        Total ..........................................................................................................              387               n/a               n/a               2,628


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

                                                  Primary care site organizational characteristics survey ..................................                                            9              13.5         a $40.41           $545.54
                                                  Primary care site patient characteristics survey ..............................................                                       9              13.5            a 40.41          545.54
                                                  Work flow mapping preliminary interview ........................................................                                     72               36             a 40.41        1,454.76
                                                  Work flow mapping group interview ................................................................                                   90              135             a 40.41        5,455.35
                                                  Work flow mapping follow-up interview ...........................................................                                    72               36             a 40.41        1,454.76
                                                  Patient interview ..............................................................................................                     90               45             b 23.23        1,045.35
                                                  Community agency interview ...........................................................................                               45               45             c 22.20          999.00

                                                        Total ..........................................................................................................              387               n/a               n/a        11,500.30
                                                    * For hourly average wage rates, mean hourly wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) May 2015 national occupational employment
                                                  wage estimates were used. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
                                                    a Participants will include a mix of providers and front desk staff; therefore a blended rate for these tasks are used including Nurse ($33.55),
                                                  Medical Assistant ($15.01 1), Front Desk Staff ($13.38 2), Program Director ($32.56), Pharmacist ($56.96), Physician ($91.60), Behavioral health
                                                  provider ($22.03).
                                                    b Based upon the mean wages for consumers (all occupations).
                                                    c Based upon the mean wages for Social Workers.




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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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DatesComments on this notice must be received by April 14, 2017.
ContactDoris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by emails at [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 10487 

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