[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 104 (Thursday, May 30, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37809-37810]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-13418]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-31-02]


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 Officer at (404) 498-1210. 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: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 
(NHAMCS) OMB No. 0920-0278--Revision--National Center for Health 
Statistics, (NCHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 
The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) has been 
conducted annually since 1992 and is directed by the Division of Health 
Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC. The 
purpose of the NHAMCS is to meet the needs and demands for statistical 
information about the provision of ambulatory medical care services in 
the United States. Ambulatory services are rendered in a wide variety 
of settings, including physicians' offices and hospital outpatient and 
emergency departments. The target universe of the NHAMCS is in-person 
visits made in the U.S. to outpatient departments and emergency 
departments of non-Federal, short-stay hospitals (hospitals with an 
average length of stay of less than 30 days) or those whose specialty 
is general (medical or surgical) or children's general. The NHAMCS was 
initiated to complement the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 
(NAMCS, OMB No. 0920-0234) which provides similar data concerning 
patient visits to physicians' offices. The NAMCS and NHAMCS are the 
principal sources of data on approximately 90 percent of ambulatory 
care provided in the United States.
    The NHAMCS provides a range of baseline data on the characteristics 
of the users and providers of ambulatory medical care. Data collected 
include patients' demographic characteristics and reason(s) for visit, 
and the physicians' diagnosis(es), diagnostic equipment and services, 
medications, and disposition. These data, together with trend data , 
may be used to monitor the effects of change in the health care system, 
for the planning of health services, improving medical education, 
determining health care work force needs, and assessing the health 
status of the population.
    Users of NHAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional 
offices, Federal agencies such as NIH, state and local governments, 
schools of public health, colleges and universities, private industry, 
nonprofit foundations, professional associations, as well as individual 
practitioners, researchers, administrators, and health planners. Uses 
vary from the inclusion of a few selected statistics in a large 
research effort, to an in-depth analysis of the entire NHAMCS data set 
covering several years. The estimated annualized burden for this data 
collection is 8,809 hours.

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                                                                                     Number of     Avg. burden/
   Respondents (non-Federal general and short-stay hospitals)        Number of      responses/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)
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Induction form: Ineligible hospitals............................              50               1           15/60
Induction form: Eligible hospitals..............................             440               1           75/60
Emergency departments...........................................             400               1               1
Outpatient departments..........................................             240               5               1
ED Patient Record...............................................             400             100            5/60
OPD Patient Record..............................................             240             150            5/60
Pediatric emergency services and equipment......................             400               1           30/60
ESA Staffing and Capacity and Ambulance Diversion Supplement....             450               1           15/60
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    Dated: May 21, 2002.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-13418 Filed 5-29-02; 8:45 am]
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