[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 115 (Thursday, June 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31487-31488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14723]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
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 Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects. To request more information on the proposed project, call the
HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
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.
Proposed Projects
1. Study of Physicians' Educational Preparation for Practice in
Managed Care Settings--New--A mail survey will be conducted of primary
care physicians and medical directors in managed care organizations to
assess their views of the adequacy of their preparation for practice in
that setting. The survey of physicians will be limited to those who
graduated between 1986 and 1990. The information will be used by the
Bureau of Health Professions to formulate recommendations for
curriculum changes. Because this is a mail survey, automated collection
techniques will not be used. Burden estimates are as follows:
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No. of responses Avg. burden/response(in
No. of respondents per respondent hours)
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Physicians................................... 1800 1 .25
Medical directors............................ 200 1 .25
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2. Study of the Dissemination of the Maternal and Child Assistance
Programs Model Application Form--New--A telephone survey will be
conducted of (1) governor's offices in 59 states and territories, (2)
the leadership of state-level maternal and child assistance programs in
59 states and territories, and (3) the leadership of local maternal and
child assistance programs in 10 carefully selected jurisdictions across
the country. The survey will provide data on the effectiveness of the
federal dissemination of the maternal and child assistance programs
Model Application Form, and on the use and impact of the Model
Application Form or other similar consolidated application forms on
maternal and child assistance programs and clients. The data collected
will inform Members of Congress, which mandated the development and
dissemination of the Model Application Form, and state and federal
maternal and child assistance program leaders about the effectiveness
of the federal dissemination process, the extent of Model Application
Form and other consolidated application form implementation, and their
impact on agency operations and program clients. Because this is a
targeted telephone survey with limited numbers, automated collection
techniques will not be used. Burden estimates are as follows:
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No. of responses Avg. burden/response(in
No. of respondents per respondent hours)
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Governors office............................. 59 1 .5
State level officials........................ 236 1 .5
Local level officials........................ 50 1 .5
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3. Evaluation of Special Projects of National Significance:
Adolescent Focussed Grantees--Under the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS
Resources Emergency Act of 1990, Special Projects of National
Significance are supported to evaluate and disseminate innovative
models of care. In order to fulfill the evaluation requirements of the
Act, grantees collect, on an ongoing basis, information on numbers of
clients served, characteristics of those clients, services provided,
and outcomes of those services. The information will be used to
identify models of care with promise for national replication and
dissemination. Most data are collected by care providers who complete
very brief (one page or less) forms to document each client contact,
and some data will be collected directly from volunteering care
recipients. Burden estimates follow:
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No. of responses Avg. burden/response (in
No. of respondents per respondent hours)
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Care providers (nurses, case managers, 232 407 2.4 hours (2.8 minutes per
counselors). form).
Care recipients........................... 495 1 1 hour.
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[[Page 31488]] 4. Evaluation of the Interdisciplinary Generalist
Curriculum--New--The Interdisciplinary Generalist Curriculum (IGC)
Project awards funds to Schools of Medicine that change their curricula
to include preclinical generalist primary care training directed toward
influencing medical students to select primary care medical careers.
The evaluation of this project will include two surveys. A survey of
faculty members of the schools funded by this project will assess the
faculty attitudes and beliefs about the innovations in the curriculum
one year after the project began and three years after the project
began. The funded schools were selected through a request for proposal
(RFP) process. All 141 allopathic and osteopathic Schools of Medicine
received the RFP. The second survey will be sent to the Deans of these
schools. This RFP survey will assess the extent to which the RFP
process itself generated changes in curricula.
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No. of responses Avg burden/response(in
No. of Respondents per respondent hours)
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Faculty survey............................... 3104 2 .25
RFP Survey................................... 141 1 .50
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5. Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Facility and Equipment
Survey--New--Under the Capital Improvement Program, the Bureau of
Primary Health Care provides additional funds to grantees supported
under the BPHC primary health care delivery programs for renovations,
repair, modernization or construction/replacement of health care
facilities to correct fire and life-safety hazards and overcrowding
conditions. In order to understand the nature and extent of such
problems, the BPHC is planning to conduct a mail survey of all grantee
facilities to collect information on their facility and equipment
problems and on estimated costs to correct the problems. The
information will be used to set program priorities and to target
technical assistance to grantees in greatest need.
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No. of responses Avg. burden/ response (in
No. of respondents per respondent hours)
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Grantee facilities........................... 1880 1 .6
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Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: June 12, 1995.
Ciro V. Sumaya,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-14723 Filed 6-14-95; 8:45 am]
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