[Federal Register: October 18, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 200)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-05-AC]
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. CDC is requesting an emergency
clearance for this data collection with a two week public comment
period. CDC is requesting OMB approval of this package 7 days after the
end of the public comment period.
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 M. Perryman,
CDC Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24,
Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to omb@cdc.gov. Written comments
should be received within 14 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Research--New--National
Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
As part of the effort taken by CDC to learn more about the
epidemiology and clinical dynamics of infection with Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, CDC's National Center for
Infectious Diseases would like to collect information in the event of a
re-emergence of SARS. Protocols have been developed for the study of
SARS transmission, dynamics of infection and SARS infection during
pregnancy. Information on symptoms of illness, activities during
periods of contact with a SARS case or within a SARS-affected area and
outcomes of illness will be requested from SARS case-patients, contacts
of SARS case-patients, health care professionals and state and local
public health providers. Data will be used for research to contribute
to the global understanding of SARS illness and refine methods of SARS
infection control. Expedited clearance is necessary so that data may be
collected immediately in the event of SARS re-emergence this fall.
There is no cost to the respondents.
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Avg.
Estimated burden
No. of No. of per Total
Form Respondents Respondents responses/ response burden
respondent (in (hours)
hours)
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1. Transmission protocol: Clinical Health departments, 100 1 1 100
Baseline Questionnaire for SARS Cases. clinicians.
2. Transmission protocol: Follow-up SARS cases and contacts... 500 5 10/60 417
Questionnaire.
3. Transmission protocol: Health departments, 50 1 1 50
Characterization of SARS Tool for Data clinicians.
Collection.
4. Transmission protocol: Baseline Health departments........ 300 1 15/60 75
Questionnaire for Contacts.
5. Transmission protocol: Questionnaire Health departments........ 300 1 10/60 50
for Household Information.
6. Transmission protocol: Questionnaire Health departments, 300 1 15/60 75
for Close Household Contacts. clinicians.
7. Transmission protocol: Questionnaire Quarantine officers, 1,000 1 30/60 500
for Airline Contacts. health dept..
8. Transmission protocol: Questionnaire Health departments, 300 1 15/60 75
for Health Care Worker Contacts. clinicians.
9. Pregnancy protocol: Pregnancy, Health departments, 50 1 40/60 33
Delivery and Follow-up Data Collection clinicians.
Tools.
Total.............................. .......................... 2900 .......... ........ 1375
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Dated: October 8, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-23219 Filed 10-15-04; 8:45 am]
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