[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 170 (Friday, August 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45975-45976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22259]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[INFO-96-25]


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 Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed 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 through the

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use of automated collection techniques for other forms of information 
technology. Send comments to Wilma Johnson, CDC Reports Clearance 
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments 
should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Projects

    1. National Hospital Discharge Survey--(0920-0212)--Extension 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 275,000 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 half 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.

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                                                                     Number of    Average burden/               
                   Respondents                       Number of      responses/     response (in    Total burden 
                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)         (in hrs.)  
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Medical Record Abstracts Primary Procedure                                                                      
 Hospitals......................................              77             250         0.0833             1604
Alternate Procedure Hospitals...................             134             250         0.01666             558
In-House Tape or Printout Hospitals.............             103              12         0.18333             227
Update Form (Abstract Service Hospitals)........             164               2         0.0333               11
Quality Control Forms...........................              50              40         0.1666               33
Induction Forms.................................              40               1         2                    80
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           2,513
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    Dated: August 26, 1996.
Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning And Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-22259 Filed 8-29-96; 8:45 am]
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