[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 559-560]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-33342]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30-Day-10-0212]
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 project or to obtain a copy
of data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on 404-639-5960 or send comments to CDC Assistant
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Written comments should be
received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)(OMB 0920-0212
exp. 10/31/2011)--Revision-- National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect statistics on the
extent and nature of illness and disability of the population of the
United States. This three-year clearance request includes hospital
recruitment and data collection for 2011, 2012, and 2013 of the
redesigned National Hospital Discharge Survey, as well as a pretest of
data collection on acute coronary syndrome for a supplement to the NHDS
which will be sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute.
The National Hospital Discharge Survey has been conducted
continuously by the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, since
1965. It is the principal source of data on inpatient utilization of
short-stay, non-Federal hospitals and is the principal annual source of
nationally representative estimates on the characteristics of
discharges, lengths of stay, diagnoses, surgical and non-surgical
procedures, and patterns of use of care in hospitals in various regions
of the country. It is the benchmark against which special programmatic
data sources are measured.
Although the current NHDS is still fulfilling its intended
functions, it is based on concepts from the health care delivery
system, as well as the hospital and patient universes, of previous
decades. It has become clear that a redesign of the NHDS that provides
greater depth of information is necessary. Consequently, 2010 will
serve as the last year in which the current NHDS will be fielded.
Meanwhile, the redesigned NHDS is scheduled to begin in 2011.
A new sample of 500 hospitals drawn for the NHDS will be recruited
beginning in June 2011 and continuing through September 2012 (167
hospitals on an annualized basis). In 2011, data collection will begin
by collecting the electronic Uniform Bills (UB-04s) from hospitals
recruited in 2011 followed by data for all sample facilities for 2012
and 2013. A post induction annual facility questionnaire to update
facility information will be collected for two years--2012 and 2013
(333 hospitals on an annualized basis).
The data items to be collected from the UB-04 in the NHDS will
include patient level data items including basic demographic
information, personal identifiers, name, address, social security
number (if available), and medical record number (if available), and
characteristics of the discharge including admission and discharge
dates, diagnoses, and surgical and non-surgical procedures. Facility
level data items include demographic information, clinical
capabilities, and financial information. UB-04 data will be transmitted
from all 500 hospitals on a quarterly basis.
A pretest of a survey supplement on acute coronary syndrome
sponsored by the National Heart Lung and Blood will also be fielded in
2011. The pretest will be conducted in a convenience sample of 32
hospitals (11 hospitals on an annualized basis) and discharges will be
identified from the UB-04 codes for a diagnosis of acute myocardial
infarction.
Users of NHDS data include, but are not limited to CDC,
Congressional Research Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), American Health Care Association,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Bureau of the
Census. Data collected through NHDS are essential for evaluating health
status of the population, for the planning of programs and policy to
elevate the health status of the Nation, for studying morbidity trends,
and for 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 Healthy People Objectives. In addition, NHDS data
provide annual updates for numerous tables in the Congressionally-
mandated NCHS report, Health, United States. Other users of these data
include universities, research organizations, many in the private
sector, foundations, and a variety of users in the print media. There
is no cost to respondents other than their time to participate. The
total estimated annualized burden is 3,520 hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Avg. burden per
Respondents Form Number of responses per response (in
respondents respondent hours)
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Hospital CEO/CFO................... Survey Presentation 167 1 1
for the NHDS.
Director of health information Facility 167 1 4
management (DHIM) or Health Questionnaire Form
information technology (DHIT). for the NHDS.
DHIM or DHIT....................... Post-Induction Annual 333 1 2
Facility
Questionnaire.
DHIM or DHIT....................... Quarterly 500 4 1
Transmission of UB-
04 Data.
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Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Pretest
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Hospital CEO/CFO................... Survey Presentation 11 1 1
for the ACS Module
for the NHDS.
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DHIM or DHIT....................... Abstraction and 11 3 15/60
Reabstraction for
the ACS Module of
the NHDS.
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Dated: December 28, 2010.
Carol E. Walker,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-33342 Filed 1-4-11; 8:45 am]
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