E8-16062. Notice of Correction-Assessing the Impact of the Patient Safety Improvement Corps (PSIC) Training Program

With this correction notice, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) informs the public of changes made to a notice on “Assessing the Impact of the Patient Safety Improvement Corps (PSIC) Training Program” published on June 24, 2008, Vol. 73, No. 122, pages 35692-35693 under section SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

The revised subsections below on “Estimated Annual Respondent Burden, Exhibit 1 and 2” replace same subsections published on June 24, 2008.

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden

Exhibit I shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the respondent's time to participate in the study. Qualitative interviews will be conducted with a maximum of 54 individuals and will last about one hour. The training participant questionnaire is estimated to require 30 minutes to complete and the organizational leader questionnaire is estimated to require 15 minutes to complete, resulting in a total burden of 223 hours.

 Exhibit 1.—Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

Form name	Number of respondents	Number of responses per respondent	Hour per response	Total burden hours
Qualitative interview	54	1	1	54
Training participant questionnaire	300	1	30/60	150
Organizational leader questionnaire	75	1	15/60	19
Total	429	NA	NA	223

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden based on the respondents' time to participate in the study The total cost burden is estimated to be $7,453.06.

 Exhibit 2.—Estimated Annualized Cost Burden

Form name	Number of respondents	Total burden hours	Average hourly wage rate *	Total cost burden
Qualitative interview	54	54	$35.19	$1,900.26
Training participant questionnaire	300	150	32.18	4,827.00
Organizational leader questionnaire	75	19	38.20	725.80
Total	429	223	NA	7,453.06
* Based upon the mean of the average wages for health professionals for the training participant questionnaire and for executives, administrators, and managers for the organizational leader questionnaire presented in the National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, June 2005, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Dated: July 3, 2008.

Carolyn M. Clancy,

Director.