[Federal Register: December 29, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 250)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-07-06AI]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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) 639-5960 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Metropolitan Atlanta Stillbirth Management Survey: Knowledge,
Attitudes and Practice Patterns from Obstetricians,--New--National
Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The U.S. Congress House Report 108-792 (joint conference report for
the Fiscal Year 2005 omnibus appropriations bill) provides specific
funding to devise a comprehensive strategy for expanding existing birth
defects surveillance systems to incorporate surveillance data on all
intrauterine fetal deaths of 20 or more week's gestation into the
Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program (MACDP). Stillbirth is
largely an understudied adverse pregnancy outcome even though it
accounts for nearly one half of all perinatal mortality. There is
currently no nationally accepted definition of what constitutes a
stillbirth, and there are no universally recommended, standardized
stillbirth evaluation protocols in use for the evaluation of fetal
deaths. The proposed survey has been designed to evaluate and assess
the knowledge, attitudes and practice management patterns of
obstetricians in the metropolitan Atlanta area regarding stillbirths in
general, as well as in their medical practice. This information will be
used to identify prevailing deficiencies leading to incomplete and
inaccurate reporting of data relative to stillbirths, and to develop
targeted awareness and educational strategies for participating MACDP
facilities. Ongoing, accurate and reliable population-based registries
of stillbirths are essential for conducting epidemiologic studies on
the causes of and risk factors for this pregnancy outcome. This survey
will be mailed to randomly selected obstetricians whose practices serve
residents of the 5 counties comprising metropolitan Atlanta. This
survey will be conducted once and will take approximately 2-3 months to
collect the data. NCBDDD is requesting OMB clearance for 1 (one) year.
There is no cost to the survey respondents except for the time
necessary to complete the survey. The total annual burden hours are 122
Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Respondents Participant status respondents reponses per response (in
respondent hours)
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Obstetricians...................... Non-Participant............ 120 1 1/60
Participant................ 480 1 15/60
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Dated: December 22, 2006.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E6-22381 Filed 12-28-06; 8:45 am]
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