[Federal Register: July 27, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 143)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-05-0212]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 371-5983 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human Resources
and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Written comments
should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Hospital Discharge Survey (OMB No. 0920-0212)--Revision--
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) has been conducted
continuously by CDC, National Center for Health Statistics since 1965.
It is the principal source of data on inpatient utilization of short-
stay, non-Federal hospitals and is the only annual source of nationally
representative estimates on the characteristics of discharges, the
lengths of stay, diagnosis, surgical and non-surgical procedures, and
the patterns of use of care in hospitals in various regions of the
country. It is the benchmark against which special programmatic data
sources are compared. Data collected through the NHDS are essential for
evaluating the health status of the population,
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planning of programs and policy to elevate the health status of the
Nation, studying morbidity trends, and research activities in the
health field. NHDS data have been used extensively in the development
and monitoring of goals for the Year 2000 and 2010 Health Objectives.
In addition, NHDS data provide annual updates for numerous tables in
the Congressionally-mandated NCHS report, Health, United States.
Data for the NHDS are collected annually on approximately 300,000
discharges from a nationally representative sample of non-institutional
hospitals exclusive of Federal, military and Veterans' Administration
hospitals. The data items collected are the basic core of variables
contained in the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) in
addition to two data items (admission type and source) which are
identical to those needed for billing of inpatient services for
Medicare patients. in the 2003 NHDS 426 hospitals participated. Data
for approximately forty-four percent of the responding hospitals (186)
are abstracted from medical records. The remaining hospitals supply
data through in-house tapes or printouts (80 hospitals) or are
hospitals that belong to commercial abstract service organizations or
state data systems (160 hospitals) from which electronic data files are
purchased. There is no actual cost to respondents since hospital staff
who actively participate in the data collection effort are compensated
by the government for their time. The total estimated annualized burden
hours are 2,131.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Number of Avg. burden/
Medical record abstracts respondents responses/ response (in
(hospitals) respondent hrs.)
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Primary Procedure Hospitals..................................... 62 250 5/60
Alternate Procedure Hospitals................................... 124 250 1/60
In-House Tape or Printout Hospitals............................. 80 12 12/60
Induction Forms................................................. 15 1 2
Non-response Study.............................................. 50 1 2
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Dated: July 20, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-14787 Filed 7-26-05; 8:45 am]
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