[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10417-10418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5396]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-02-29]


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 use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)--New--
National Center for Infectious Disease (NCID), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC). In 1970, OMB first approved the 
information collection now known as the ``National Nosocomial 
Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System'' (OMB No. 0920-0012) and in 1999 
approved the ``Surveillance for Bloodstream and Vascular Access 
Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers'' (OMB No. 0920-0442). 
These two data collections have been modified and merged to create the 
NHSN and constitute the first phase of this national surveillance 
system to collect data on adverse events associated with healthcare. 
The NHSN will evolve with the addition of modules and healthcare 
institutions from a wide spectrum of settings.
    The NHSN is a knowledge system for accumulating, exchanging, and 
integrating relevant information and resources among private and public 
stakeholders to support local and national efforts to protect patients 
and to promote healthcare safety. Specifically, the data will be used 
to determine the magnitude of various healthcare-associated adverse 
events and trends in the rates of these events among patients with 
similar risks. They will be used to detect changes in the epidemiology 
of adverse events resulting from new and current medical therapies and 
changing patient risks.
    Healthcare institutions that participate in NHSN voluntarily report 
their data to CDC through the National Electronic Disease Surveillance 
System that uses a web browser-based technology for data entry and data 
management. Data are collected by trained surveillance personnel using 
written standardized protocols. The cost to participating institutions 
is the salaries of data collector and data entry personnel, a computer 
capable of supporting an internet service provider (ISP), and access to 
an ISP. The amount expended for annual salaries will vary widely 
depending on the module(s) selected. Salaries will range from 
approximately $940.00 for collection of dialysis incident data to 
$3500.00 for collection of bloodstream infections data using the 
Device-associated Module in 2 ICUs. The table below shows the estimated 
annual burden in hours to collect and report data by form for the 
entire NHSN project. The estimated annualize cost to respondents will 
be $6,900.

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                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
                      Title                          Number of      responses/     per response    Total Burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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NHSN Application Annual Survey..................             350               1               1             350
Dialysis Application/Annual Survey..............              80               1               1              80
Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan...........             350               9           25/60           1,313
Patient Data....................................             350             111            5/60           3,238
Surgical Site Infection (SSI)...................             200              27           25/60           2,250
Pneumonia (PNEU)................................             200              54           25/60           4,500
Primary Bloodstream Infection (BSI).............             230              54           25/60           5,175
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)...................             150              45           25/60           2,813
Dialysis Incident (DI)..........................              80              90           12/60           1,440
Custom Event (not reported to CDC)..............             125
Denominator for Procedure.......................             200             540            5/60           9,000
Denominator for Specialty Care Area (SCA).......              75               9               5           3,375
Denominator for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit                 100               9               4           3,600
 (NICU).........................................
Denominator for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Other              245              18               5          22,050
 locations (Not NICU or SCA)....................
Denominator for Outpatient......................              80               9            5/60              60
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)--                      20              45               3           2,700
 Microbiology Lab...............................
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)--                      20              36               2           1,440
 Pharmacy.......................................
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          63,384
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    Dated: February 28, 2002.
Julie Fishman,
Acting Deputy Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-5396 Filed 3-6-02; 8:45 am]
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