[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 124 (Tuesday, June 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34817-34818]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16464]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Physicians' 
Resolution of Ethical Problems and Use of Institutional Consultation 
Services

Summary

    Under the provisions of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G. 
Magnuson Clinical Center, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to 
review and approve the information collection listed below. This 
proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal 
Register on September 4, 1998, vol. 63, no. 172, pages 47310-47311 and 
allowed 60-days for public comment. No public comments were received. 
The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public 
comment. The National Institutes of Health may not conduct or sponsor, 
and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information 
collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after 
October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control 
number.

Proposed Collection

    Title: Physicians' Resolution of Ethical Problems and Use of 
Institutional Consultation Services. Type of Information Collection 
Request: NEW. Need and Use of Information Collection: The survey asks 
for information about: (1) The ways that physicians address ethical 
problems that arise in their practice; (2) the types of questions that 
physicians perceive to raise ethical issues, and how often these arise; 
(3) how frequently physicians use the ethics consultation service (if 
any) at their primary institution; and (4) the reasons why physicians 
do and do not request formal ethics consultation through their 
institution's ethics consultation service. The information collected 
will help the NIH and other health care institutions to structure their 
ethics consultation service, and other ethics resources, to provide 
more helpful and responsive ways of addressing ethical problems and 
dilemmas. Frequency of Response: One time. Affected Public: Internal 
medicine doctors throughout the U.S. Type of Respondents: Clinical 
Oncologists, Critical Care Specialists and other Internal Medicine 
physicians. The

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annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated Number of Respondents: 
450; Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1; Average Burden 
Hours Per Response: 5; and Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours 
requested: 225. The annualized cost to respondents is estimated at: 
$nil. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or 
Maintenance Costs to report.

Request For Comments

    Written comments and/or suggestions from the public and affected 
agencies are invited on one or more of the following points: (1) 
Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the function of the agency, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including the 
use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

Direct Comments to OMB

    Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained 
in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and 
associated response time, should be directed to the: Office of 
Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 
Officer for NIH.
    To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, contact: Dr. Gordon 
DuVal, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Building 10, Room C118, 
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, or telephone 
(301) 435-8717, or e-mail your request, including your address to: 
[email protected].

Comments Due Date

    Comments regarding this information collection are best assured of 
having their full effect if received within 30-days of the date of this 
publication.

    Dated: May 31, 1999.
David K. Henderson, M.D.,
Deputy Director for Clinical Care, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, 
National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 99-16464 Filed 6-28-99; 8:45 am]
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