[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36565-36566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15330]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-03-79]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24,
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days
of this notice.
Proposed Project: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)--New--
National Center for Infectious Disease (NCID), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). OMB first approved the information
collection now known as the ``National Nosocomial Infections
Surveillance (NNIS) System'' (OMB No.0920-0012) in 1970; it approved
the ``National Surveillance System for Healthcare Workers(NaSH)'' (OMB
0920-0417) in 1997, and the ``Surveillance for Bloodstream and Vascular
Access Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers'' (OMB No. 0920-
0442) in 1999. These three data collections have been modified and are
being merged to create the NHSN. The NHSN will evolve with the addition
of modules and participating healthcare institutions from a wide
spectrum of settings.
The NHSN is a knowledge system for accumulating, exchanging, and
integrating relevant information and resources among private and public
stakeholders to support local and national efforts to protect patients
and to promote healthcare safety. Specifically, the data will be used
to determine the magnitude of various healthcare-associated adverse
events and trends in the rates of these events among patients and
healthcare workers with similar risks. They will be used to detect
changes in the epidemiology of adverse events resulting from new and
current medical therapies and changing risks.
Healthcare institutions that participate in NHSN voluntarily report
their data to the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in the
National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention through the National Electronic Disease
Surveillance System that uses a web browser-based technology for data
entry and data management. Data are collected by trained surveillance
personnel using written standardized protocols. The cost to
participating institutions is a computer capable of supporting an
internet service provider (ISP) and access to an ISP. The table below
shows the estimated annual burden in hours to collect and report data.
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Number of Burden per
Title Number of responses/ response (in Total burden
respondents respondent hrs.) (hrs.)
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NHSN Application/Annual Survey.................. 350 1 1 350
Dialysis Application/Annual Survey.............. 80 1 1 80
Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan........... 350 9 25/60 1,313
Patient Data.................................... 350 111 5/60 3,238
Surgical Site Infection (SSI)................... 200 27 25/60 2,250
Pneumonia (PNEU)................................ 200 54 25/60 4,500
Primary Bloodstream Infection (BSI)............. 230 54 25/60 5,175
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)................... 150 45 25/60 2,813
Dialysis Incident (DI).......................... 80 90 12/60 1,440
Denominator for Procedure....................... 200 540 5/60 9,000
Denominator for Specialty Care Area (SCA)....... 75 9 5 3,375
Denominator for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 100 9 4 3,600
(NICU).........................................
Denominator for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Other 245 18 5 22,050
locations (Not NICU or SCA)....................
Denominator for Outpatient...................... 80 9 5/60 60
Antimicrobia 1 Use and Resistance (AUR)-- 20 36 2 1,440
Pharmacy.......................................
Healthcare Personnel Safety Reporting Plan...... 90 2 10/60 30
Healthcare Personnel Exposures to Blood/Body 90 42 1 3,780
Fluids.........................................
Healthcare Personnel Post-exposure Prophylaxis.. 90 6 15/60 135
Healthcare Personnel Demographic Data........... 90 42 10/60 630
Healthcare Personnel Vaccination History........ 90 42 15/60 945
Healthcare Personnel Facility Survey............ 90 1 6 540
Healthcare Personnel Implementation of 90 1 6 540
Engineering Controls...........................
Healthcare Personnel Survey..................... 30 1 10/60 5
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 67,289
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Dated: June 12, 2003.
Thomas A. Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-15330 Filed 6-17-03; 8:45 am]
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