[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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