[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 115 (Friday, June 14, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 40930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-15013]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-36-02]


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 Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (OMB No. 
0920-0234)--Revision--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The National 
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) was conducted annually from 1973 
to 1981, again in 1985, and resumed as an annual survey in 1989. It is 
directed by the Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for 
Health Statistics, CDC. The purpose of NAMCS is to meet the needs and 
demands for 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 NAMCS target population 
consists of all office visits within the United States made by 
ambulatory patients to non-Federal office-based physicians (excluding 
those in the specialties of anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology) 
who are engaged in direct patient care. Since more than 80 percent of 
all direct ambulatory medical care visits occur in physicians' offices, 
the NAMCS provides data on the majority of ambulatory medical care 
services. To complement these data, in 1992 NCHS initiated the National 
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS, OMB No. 0920-0278) to 
provide data concerning patient visits to hospital outpatient and 
emergency departments. The NAMCS, together with the NHAMCS constitute 
the ambulatory component of the National Health Care Survey (NHCS), and 
will provide coverage of more than 90 percent of ambulatory medical 
care.
    The NAMCS provides a range of baseline data on the characteristics 
of the users and providers of ambulatory medical care. Data collected 
include the patients' demographic characteristics and reason(s) for 
visit, and the physicians' diagnosis(es) and diagnostic services, 
medications and disposition. These data, together with trend data, may 
be used to monitor the effects of change in the health care system, 
provide new insights into ambulatory medical care, and stimulate 
further research on the use, organization, and delivery of ambulatory 
care.
    Users of NAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional 
and other federal government agencies such as NIH and FDA, state and 
local governments, medical schools, schools of public health, colleges 
and universities, private businesses, nonprofit foundations and 
corporations, 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 NAMCS data set 
covering several years.
    To calculate the burden hours the number of respondents for NAMCS 
is based on a sample of 3,150 physicians with a 50 percent 
participation rate (this includes physicians who are out-of-scope as 
well as those who refuse). The total annual burden for this data 
collection is 6,074 hours.

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                                                                                     Number of
                              Form                                   Number of     responses per  Average burden
                                                                    respondents     respondent     per response
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Induction:
    --Eligible..................................................           2,362               1           25/60
    --Ineligible................................................             788               1            5/60
Patient Record..................................................           2,362              30            4/60
Non-response studies............................................             300               1           60/60
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    Dated: June 6, 2002.
Julie Fishman,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-15013 Filed 6-13-02; 8:45 am]
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