[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 149 (Friday, August 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50441-50442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19514]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 DAY-37-02]


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 Discharge Survey (OMB No. 0920-0212)--Extension--
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC). 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 in-patient 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 development and monitoring of goals for the Year 
2000 and 2010 Health Objectives. 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) in addition to two data items (admission type and 
source) which are identical to those needed for billing of in-patient 
services for Medicare patients. Data for approximately forty-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. The estimated annual burden for this data collection is 
2,653 hours.

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                                                                                            Average
                                                                 Number of    Number of     Burden/
                             Form                               Respondents   Responses/    Response
                                                                             Respondents   (in hours)
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Medical record abstracts--Primary Procedure Hospitals.........           68          250         5/60
Medical record abstracts--Alternate Procedure Hospitals.......          130          250         1/60
Medical record abstracts--In-house tape or printout hospitals.           80           12        12/60
Update form (abstract service hospitals)......................          156            1         2/60
Induction form................................................           15            1            2
Inpatient Drug Study..........................................           50           22        20/60

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Non-response Study............................................           50            1            2
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    Dated: July 29, 2002.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-19514 Filed 8-1-02; 8:45 am]
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