[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50096-50097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24002]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30 DAY-24-99]
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 Office on (404) 639-7090. Send written
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
1. National Hospital Discharge Survey--(0920-0212)--Extension--
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)--The National Hospital
Discharge Survey (NHDS), which has been conducted continuously by the
National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, since 1965, is the
principal source of data on inpatient utilization of short-stay, non-
Federal hospitals and is the only annual source of nationally
representative estimates on the characteristics of discharges, the
lengths of stay, diagnoses, surgical and non-surgical procedures, and
the patterns of use of care in hospitals in various regions of the
country. It is the benchmark against which special programmatic data
sources are compared. Data collected through the 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 production of goals
for the Year 2000 Health Objectives and the subsequent monitoring of
these goals. In addition, NHDS data provide annual updates for numerous
tables in the Congressionally-mandated NCHS report, Health, United
States. Data for the NHDS are collected annually on approximately
300,000 discharges from a nationally representative sample of
noninstitutional hospitals, exclusive of Federal, military and
Veterans' Administration hospitals. The data items collected are the
basic core of variables contained in the Uniform Hospital Discharge
Data Set (UHDDS). Data for approximately fifty-five percent of the
responding hospitals are abstracted from medical records while the
remainder of the hospitals supply data through commercial abstract
service organizations, state data systems, in-house tapes or printouts.
There is no actual cost to respondents since hospital staff who
actively participate in the data collection effort are compensated by
the government for their time. The total annual burden hours are 2,465.
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Number of Avg. burden/
Respondents (hospitals) Number of responses/ response (in
respondents respondent hrs)
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Medical Record Abstracts:
Primary Procedure Hospitals................................... 73 250 .08333
Alternate Procedure Hospitals................................. 189 250 .01667
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In-House Tape or Printout Hospitals........................... 37 12 .18333
Update Form (Abstract Service Hospitals)...................... 175 2 .03333
Quality Control Forms......................................... 50 40 .01667
Induction Forms............................................... 15 1 2
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Dated: September 9, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-24002 Filed 9-14-99; 8:45 am]
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