[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 487-488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-131]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control And Prevention
[INFO-00-17]
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, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) is providing opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection 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) 639-7090.
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 the use of automated collection techniques for 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 with 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey--(0920-0234)--Revision--
(NCHS)--The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) was
conducted annually from 1973 to 1981, again in 1985, and resumed as an
annual survey in 1989. It is directed by the Division of Health Care
Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC. The purpose of
NAMCS is to meet the needs and demands for statistical information
about the provision of ambulatory medical care services in the United
States. Ambulatory services are rendered in a wide variety of settings,
including physicians' offices and hospital outpatient and emergency
departments. The NAMCS target population consists of all office visits
within the United States made by ambulatory patients to non-Federal,
office-based physicians (excluding those in the specialties of
anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology) who are engaged in direct
patient care. Since more than 80 percent of all direct ambulatory
medical care visits occur in physicians' offices, the NAMCS provides
data on the majority of ambulatory medical care services. To complement
these data, in 1992 NCHS initiated the National Hospital Ambulatory
Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS, OMB No. 0920-0278) to provide data
concerning patient visits to hospital outpatient and emergency
departments. The NAMCS, together with the NHAMCS, constitute the
ambulatory component of the National Health Care Survey (NHCS) and will
provide coverage of more than 90 percent of ambulatory medical care.
The NAMCS provides a range of baseline data on the characteristics
of the users and providers of ambulatory medical care. Data collected
include the patients' demographic characteristics and reason(s) for
visit, and the physicians' diagnosis(es) and diagnostic services,
medications and disposition. These data, together with trend data, may
be used to monitor the effects of change in the health care system,
provide new insights into ambulatory medical care, and stimulate
further research on the use, organization, and delivery of ambulatory
care.
Users of NAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional
and other federal government agencies such as NIH and FDA, state and
local governments, medical schools, schools of public health, colleges
and universities, private businesses, nonprofit foundations and
corporations, professional associations, as well as individual
practitioners, researchers, administrators and health planners. Uses
vary from the inclusion of a few selected statistics in a large
research effort, to an in-depth analysis of the entire NAMCS data set
covering several years.
To calculate the burden hours, the number of respondents for NAMCS
is based on a sample of 6,000 physicians with a 50 percent
participation rate (this includes physicians who are out-of-scope as
well as those who refuse). The total cost to respondents is estimated
to be $300,000.
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Number of Number of Avg. burden/
respondents responses/ response (in Response
(physicians) respondent hrs.) burden (hrs.)
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Office-based physicians induction form.......... 3,000 1 .42 1,260
Patient record form............................. 3,000 30 .05 4,500
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 5,760
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Dated: December 29, 1999.
Kathy Cahill,
Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-131 Filed 1-4-00; 8:45 am]
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