83 FR 11203 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 50 (March 14, 2018)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 50 (March 14, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 14, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 11203-11206] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-05067] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ``Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database.'' DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by May 14, 2018. 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 email at [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed Project Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501- 3521, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are a fast-growing health care setting, demonstrating tremendous growth both in the volume and complexity of procedures being performed. ASCs provide surgical services to patients who are not expected to need an inpatient stay following surgery. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines ASCs as distinct entities that operate exclusively to provide surgical services to patients who do not require hospitalization and are not expected to need to stay in a surgical facility longer than 24 hours. How AHRQ's Mission and Directives Relate to ASCs. As described in its 1999 reauthorizing legislation, Congress directed AHRQ to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health services, as well as access to such services, by establishing a broad base of scientific research and promoting clinical and health systems practice improvements. The legislation also directed AHRQ to ``conduct and support research, evaluations, and training, support demonstration projects, research networks, and multidisciplinary centers, provide technical assistance, and disseminate information on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to health statistics, surveys, database development, and epidemiology.'' 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(8). Shortly after Congress enacted this legislation, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published ``To Err is Human,'' a seminal report on medical errors that connected the dots between errors and workplace culture. In it, the IOM called for health care organizations to develop a ``culture of safety'' such that staffing and system processes are aligned to improve the reliability and safety of patient care. This appeal for safety culture improvements directly relates to AHRQ's legislative directive and mission (i.e., ``to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used''). Given its legislatively mandated role, AHRQ is uniquely positioned to support data collection and analyses that will help fuel ASC patient safety culture improvements. The expanding volume and scope of ASC services, the growing attention of federal regulators on patient safety within ASCs, and the resultant implications for public health has prompted AHRQ to present this application to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In this request, AHRQ seeks OMB approval to expand its Surveys on Patient Safety CultureTM (SOPSTM) program by creating an ASC SOPS Database to capture and report on ASC SOPS data voluntarily submitted by ASCs that have administered the ASC SOPS. This is the newest database for the SOPS program and would be modeled after four other SOPS databases developed by AHRQ: Hospital SOPS [OMB NO. 0935- 0162; last approved 10/18/2016]; Medical Office SOPS [OMB NO. 0935- 0196; last approved 08/25/15]; Nursing Home SOPS [OMB NO. 0935-0195; last approved 09/30/15]; and Community Pharmacy SOPS [OMB NO. 0935- 0218; last approved 06/26/17]. [[Page 11204]] Background on ASC SOPS. This section provides context for this request to the OMB regarding the need for AHRQ's requested database. Factors include the continued ASC growth trajectory and increasing public attention on the quality of ASC care--particularly as it relates to patient safety culture. Rapid ASC Growth. Medicare-certified ASCs have experienced impressive growth in the last 35 years--up from 239 facilities in 1983 to 5,316 in 2010. In recent years, Medicare ASCs have seen continued growth in both their number and scope, as illustrated by the annual average growth rate of 1.1 percent between 2010 to 2014. In 2015, CMS spent $4.1 billion for 3.4 million fee-for service Medicare beneficiaries to receive care across 5,500 Medicare-certified ASCs. Research suggests that transitioning eligible surgical procedures from inpatient to ASC settings may yield significant and sustained Medicare cost savings. Federal Attention on ASC Care Quality and Safety Culture. Concern about the quality of ASC care is not new. Following a 2008 Hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada blamed on poor ASC infection control practices, HHS's Office of the Secretary oversaw a $10 million program for state survey agencies to improve healthcare-associated infection reduction in ASCs. The Centers for Disease Control's National Healthcare Safety Network subsequently expanded its surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance efforts to enable ASC data submission to accommodate state SSI reporting mandates. Through the Affordable Care Act of 2010, Congress also pursued ASC performance improvement by directing the HHS Secretary to implement an ASC-focused Medicare value-based purchasing program. The relationship between patient safety culture and the quality of ASC care has attracted more recent attention from policymakers and regulators. On the national level, the Joint Commission in early 2017 within its ASC accreditation manual established a new chapter on patient safety systems improvement, which includes strategies for ``motivating staff to uphold a fair and just safety culture.'' CMS, meanwhile, published in November 2017 its Final Rule outlining the ASC Quality Reporting Program, which ties quality and patient safety performance to reimbursement. ASC SOPS Pilot. AHRQ developed and pilot tested the ASC SOPS with OMB approval (OMB No. 0935-0216; approved 10/31/2013). The survey is designed to enable any ASC, regardless of type of procedures it performs, to assess its staff's perceptions about patient safety and quality assurance issues, including what safety-related attitudes and behaviors are supported, rewarded, and expected. It includes 27 items that measure 8 composites of patient safety culture, as well as five individual items on near-miss documentation, overall rating on patient safety and communication in the procedure/surgery room. The pilot test was conducted in early 2014 in ASC facilities: (1) Where patients have surgeries, procedures, and treatments and are not expected to need an inpatient stay, and (2) that have been certified and approved to participate in the CMS ASC program. Twenty-five percent of the pilot sites were affiliated with a hospital and 75% were not hospital- affiliated. Participants included 1,800 staff members from 59 ASCs--or approximately one percent of the total number of ASCs at that time. AHRQ made the survey publicly available along with a Survey User's Guide, the pilot study results, and related toolkit materials on the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture Web page in April 2015. The AHRQ ASC SOPS Database will consist of data from the AHRQ ASC patient safety culture survey. ASCs in the U.S. will be asked to voluntarily submit data from the survey to AHRQ. Rationale for the information collection. AHRQ sponsored the development of the ASC SOPS as a new survey in the suite of AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture. The database will support AHRQ's goals of promoting improvements in the quality and safety of health care in ASC settings. Like the survey and other toolkit materials, the database results will be made publicly available on AHRQ's website. Technical assistance is provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to ASCs to facilitate the use of these materials for ASC patient safety and quality improvement. Technical assistance will also be provided to support ASC data submission. The goal of this project is to create the ASC SOPS Database. This database will: (1) Present results from ASCs that voluntarily submit their data; (2) Present trend data for ASCs that have submitted their data more than once; (3) Provide data to ASCs to facilitate internal assessment and learning in the patient safety improvement process; and (4) Provide supplemental information to help ASCs 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 and with respect to health statistics, surveys, and database development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) 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 pointofcontact (POC), often the manager of the ASC, completes a number of data submission steps and forms, beginning with completion of an online Eligibility and Registration Form. The purpose of this form is to collect basic demographic information about the ASC and initiate the registration process. (2) ASC Site Information--The purpose of the site level specifications, completed by the ASC manager, is to collect background characteristics of the ASC. This information will be used to analyze data collected with the ASC SOPS survey. (3) Data Use Agreement--The purpose of the data use agreement, completed by the ASC manager, is to state how data submitted by ASCs will be used and provides privacy assurances. (4) Data Files Submission--POCs upload their data file(s), using ASC survey data file specifications, to ensure that users submit standardized and consistent data in the way variables are named, coded, and formatted. The number of submissions to the database is likely to vary each year because ASCs do not administer the survey and submit data every year. Data submission is typically handled by one POC who is either an ASC administrative manager or a survey vendor who contracts with an ASC to collect and submit its data. With the approval and addition of the ASC SOPS Database, data from the database will be used to produce three types of products: (1) An ASC SOPS Database Report that will be made publicly available on the AHRQ website (see, for example, another project in the SOPS suite, the Hospital User Database Report); (2) Individual ASC Survey Feedback Reports that are customized for each ASC that submits data to the database; and (3) Research data sets of individual-level and ASC-level data to enable researchers to [[Page 11205]] conduct analyses. All data released in a data set are de-identified at the individual level and the ASC level. ASCs will be invited to voluntarily submit their ASC SOPS survey data into the database. AHRQ's contractor, Westat, will then clean and aggregate the data to produce a PDF-formatted Database Report displaying averages, standard deviations, and percentile scores on the survey's 33 items and 8 patient safety culture dimensions. In addition, the report will also display results by respondent characteristics (e.g., staff position, tenure, and hours worked per week). The Database Report will include a section on data limitations, emphasizing that the report does not reflect a representative sampling of the U.S. ASC population. Because participating ASCs will choose to submit their data voluntarily into the database and therefore are not a random or national sample of ASCs, estimates based on this self- selected group might be biased estimates. These limitations will be noted in the database report. We will recommend that users review the database results with these caveats in mind. Each ASC that submits its data will receive a customized survey feedback report that presents their results alongside the aggregated results from other participating ASCs. If an ASC submits data more than once, its survey feedback report will also present trend data. ASC users of the ASCs SOPS Survey, Database Reports, and Individual ASC Survey Feedback Reports can use these documents to:Raise staff awareness about patient safety; Diagnose and assess the current status of patient safety culture in their own ASC; Identify strengths and areas for patient safety culture improvement; Examine trends in patient safety culture change over time; and Evaluate the cultural impact of patient safety initiatives and intervention. Estimated Annual Respondent Burden Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the respondents' time to participate in the database. Given that this will be the first call for voluntary data submission, participation is initially expected to be modest. An estimated 100 ASC managers (i.e., POCs from ASCs) will complete the database submission steps and forms. Each POC will submit the following: Eligibility and registration form (completion is estimated to take about 5 minutes). Data use agreement (completion is estimated to take about 3 minutes). ASC Site Information Form (completion is estimated to take about 5 minutes). Survey data submission will take an average of one hour. The total burden is estimated to be 121 hours. Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the respondents' time to submit their data. The cost burden is estimated to be $5,472.83. Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden respondents/POCs POC response hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eligibility and Registration Form........... 100 1 5/60 8 Data Use Agreement.......................... 100 1 3/60 5 ASC Site Information Form................... 100 1 5/60 8 Data Files Submission....................... 100 1 1 100 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total................................... NA NA NA 121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost Form name respondents/POCs hours wage rate * burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eligibility and Registration Form........... 100 8 $45.23 $361.84 Data Use Agreement.......................... 100 5 45.23 226.15 ASC Site Information........................ 100 8 45.23 361.84 Data Files Submission....................... 100 100 45.23 4,523.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total................................... NA 121 45.23 5,472.83 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Based on the mean hourly wage for 100 ASC Administrative Services Managers (11-3011; $45.23) obtained from the May 2016 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates: NAICS 621400--Outpatient Care Centers (located at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_621400.htm#11-0000). 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's 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. [[Page 11206]] Karen J. Migdail, Chief of Staff. [FR Doc. 2018-05067 Filed 3-13-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160-90-P
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such as determining if agencies are directed AHRQ to ‘‘conduct and support
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determinations, and market research. Comment Request research networks, and
B. Annual Reporting Burden AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research multidisciplinary centers, provide
and Quality, HHS. technical assistance, and disseminate
An upward adjustment is being made information on health care and on
to the estimated annual reporting ACTION: Notice.
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burden since the last notice regarding an including activities with respect to
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
extension for this clearance published intention of the Agency for Healthcare health statistics, surveys, database
on May 4, 2015 in the Federal Register Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request development, and epidemiology.’’ 42
at 80 FR 25293. Based on fiscal year that the Office of Management and U.S.C. 299a(a)(8).
2017 re-representation modification Budget (OMB) approve the proposed Shortly after Congress enacted this
data from the Federal Procurement Data information collection project legislation, the Institute of Medicine
System (FPDS), the number of annual ‘‘Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on (IOM) published ‘‘To Err is Human,’’ a
respondents has increased from 1,700 to Patient Safety Culture Database.’’ seminal report on medical errors that
2,200. connected the dots between errors and
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
workplace culture. In it, the IOM called
Respondents: 2,200. received by May 14, 2018. for health care organizations to develop
Responses per Respondent: 1. ADDRESSES: Written comments should a ‘‘culture of safety’’ such that staffing
Total Number of Responses: 2,200. be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, and system processes are aligned to
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by improve the reliability and safety of
Hours per Response: 0.5. email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. patient care. This appeal for safety
Total Burden Hours: 1,100. Copies of the proposed collection culture improvements directly relates to
plans, data collection instruments, and AHRQ’s legislative directive and
C. Public Comments specific details on the estimated burden mission (i.e., ‘‘to produce evidence to
Public comments are particularly can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports make health care safer, higher quality,
invited on: Whether this collection of Clearance Officer. more accessible, equitable, and
information is necessary for the proper FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: affordable, and to work within the U.S.
performance of functions of the FAR, Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Department of Health and Human
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by Services and with other partners to
and whether it will have practical
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. make sure that the evidence is
utility; whether our estimate of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: understood and used’’). Given its
public burden of this collection of legislatively mandated role, AHRQ is
information is accurate, and based on Proposed Project uniquely positioned to support data
valid assumptions and methodology; collection and analyses that will help
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on
Patient Safety Culture Database fuel ASC patient safety culture
clarity of the information to be improvements.
collected; and ways in which we can In accordance with the Paperwork The expanding volume and scope of
minimize the burden of the collection of Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521, ASC services, the growing attention of
information on those who are to the Agency for Healthcare Research and federal regulators on patient safety
respond, through the use of appropriate Quality (AHRQ) invites the public to within ASCs, and the resultant
technological collection techniques or comment on this proposed information implications for public health has
other forms of information technology. collection. Ambulatory surgery centers prompted AHRQ to present this
(ASCs) are a fast-growing health care application to the Office of Management
Obtaining Copies of Proposals: setting, demonstrating tremendous and Budget (OMB). In this request,
Requesters may obtain a copy of the growth both in the volume and AHRQ seeks OMB approval to expand
information collection documents from complexity of procedures being its Surveys on Patient Safety CultureTM
the General Services Administration, performed. ASCs provide surgical (SOPSTM) program by creating an ASC
Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), services to patients who are not SOPS Database to capture and report on
1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC expected to need an inpatient stay ASC SOPS data voluntarily submitted
20405, telephone 202–501–4755. following surgery. The Centers for by ASCs that have administered the
Please cite OMB Control No. 9000– Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ASC SOPS. This is the newest database
0163, Small Business Size Re- defines ASCs as distinct entities that for the SOPS program and would be
representation, in all correspondence. operate exclusively to provide surgical modeled after four other SOPS
services to patients who do not require databases developed by AHRQ: Hospital
Dated: March 7, 2018.
hospitalization and are not expected to SOPS [OMB NO. 0935–0162; last
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Lorin S. Curit, need to stay in a surgical facility longer approved 10/18/2016]; Medical Office
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, than 24 hours. SOPS [OMB NO. 0935–0196; last
Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, How AHRQ’s Mission and Directives approved 08/25/15]; Nursing Home
Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of Relate to ASCs. As described in its 1999 SOPS [OMB NO. 0935–0195; last
Governmentwide Policy. reauthorizing legislation, Congress approved 09/30/15]; and Community
[FR Doc. 2018–05066 Filed 3–13–18; 8:45 am] directed AHRQ to enhance the quality, Pharmacy SOPS [OMB NO. 0935–0218;
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Karen J. Migdail, instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or representative survey data will allow us
Chief of Staff. send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct to generalize findings to the full
[FR Doc. 2018–05067 Filed 3–13–18; 8:45 am] written comments and/or suggestions population of LHDs in the U.S.
BILLING CODE 4160–90–P regarding the items contained in this CDC requests approval of a new
notice to the Attention: CDC Desk information collection to learn about
Officer, Office of Management and how the emerging field of disaster
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Budget, 725 17th Street NW, citizen science can enhance community
HUMAN SERVICES Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) resilience for a period of 1 year. This
395–5806. Provide written comments (mixed methods) information collection
Centers for Disease Control and within 30 days of notice publication. using interviews and a cross-sectional
Prevention survey aims to: (1) Explore the potential
Proposed Project of disaster citizen science for increasing
[30Day–18–17AVB]
Leveraging the Emerging Field of community resilience, enhancing
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Disaster Citizen Science to Enhance participation in preparedness and
Reduction Act Review Community Resilience and Improve response activities, and improving
Disaster Response—New—Office of preparedness efforts; and (2) provide
In accordance with the Paperwork Public Health Preparedness and evidence to inform the development of
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for Response (OPHPR), Centers for Disease educational and instructional tools for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Control and Prevention (CDC). communities and health departments to
has submitted the information navigate the emerging field of disaster
Background and Brief Description
collection request titled ‘‘Leveraging the citizen science and promote
Emerging Field of Disaster Citizen The information collection for which collaborations. Insights from this
Science to Enhance Community approval is sought is in accordance with information collection will be used to
Resilience and Improve Disaster OPHPR’s mission to safeguard health inform the development of guidance
Response’’ to the Office of Management and save lives by providing a platform and toolkits for LHDs and community
and Budget (OMB) for review and for public health preparedness and groups so that they can align their
approval. CDC previously published a emergency response. As part of its role, efforts and strengthen the benefits and
‘‘Proposed Data Collection Submitted OPHPR is empowered to fund applied positive impacts of citizen science
for Public Comment and research to improve the ability of CDC activities. For interviews, the
Recommendations’’ notice on and its partners, including but not information collection will target citizen
September 19, 2017 to obtain comments limited to state and local health scientists and end users of citizen
from the public and affected agencies. departments, emergency management science data.
CDC did not receive comments related organizations, and health care entities, This information collection will be
to the previous notice. This notice to effectively prepare for and respond to implemented in collaboration with a
serves to allow an additional 30 days for public health emergencies and disasters. contractor and will target citizen
public and affected agency comments. Citizen science is defined as research scientists and their partners (e.g.,
CDC will accept all comments for this activities (e.g., data collection, analysis, academics who work with citizen
proposed information collection project. and reporting) performed by members of scientists on research projects) and
The Office of Management and Budget the general public without any LHDs in a position to use citizen science
is particularly interested in comments particular training in science. Citizen data to inform public health decision-
that: science is growing in popularity, fueled making. For interviews, researchers will
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed in part by growing use of smartphones sample for maximum variation, seeking
collection of information is necessary and other personal devices in the to obtain variation on U.S. region, type
for the proper performance of the population. Although citizen collection and sophistication of citizen science
functions of the agency, including and use of data during disasters has project, type of disaster encountered,
whether the information will have increased exponentially in recent years and previous experience with disaster
practical utility; and there is great policy interest in the citizen science.
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the phenomenon, there has been no robust The project aims to conduct 35–55
agencies estimate of the burden of the research to date on the use of, barriers facilitated, semi-structured, individual
proposed collection of information, to, and impact of citizen science in and group interviews, each lasting
including the validity of the disasters. Local health departments approximately 60 minutes, to cover
methodology and assumptions used; (LHDs) lack tools to respond to and topics including benefits and uses of
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and coordinate with citizen science citizen science, barriers to and
clarity of the information to be activities within communities. facilitators of citizen science, and
collected; Furthermore, citizen science strengths and limitations of citizen
(d) Minimize the burden of the organizations lack information on how science activities and resources.
collection of information on those who to organize their activities for ultimate Researchers will identify potential
are to respond, including, through the impact. interview participants through literature
use of appropriate automated, This is an exploratory study and is the reviews and snowball sampling in a
electronic, mechanical, or other first of its kind to explore the growing phased approach starting with citizen
technological collection techniques or phenomenon of disaster citizen science. science and LHD organizations.
other forms of information technology, Disaster citizen science is a rapidly The project will sample for maximum
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e.g., permitting electronic submission of growing field that is the focus of policy variation in order to capture the full
responses; and interest, but currently devoid of range of citizen scientist and health
(e) Assess information collection research. While interviews will be department experiences on this topic.
costs. hypothesis generating and provide rich For the survey, the project aims to
To request additional information on data on the experiences with citizen obtain a nationally representative
the proposed project or to obtain a copy science to date across all stakeholders sample of 600 local health officials and
of the information collection plan and active in this enterprise, the nationally- will apply survey weights to ensure that
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