[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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