[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36565-36566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15330]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-03-79]


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) 498-1210.
    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). OMB first approved the information 
collection now known as the ``National Nosocomial Infections 
Surveillance (NNIS) System'' (OMB No.0920-0012) in 1970; it approved 
the ``National Surveillance System for Healthcare Workers(NaSH)'' (OMB 
0920-0417) in 1997, and the ``Surveillance for Bloodstream and Vascular 
Access Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers'' (OMB No. 0920-
0442) in 1999. These three data collections have been modified and are 
being merged to create the NHSN. The NHSN will evolve with the addition 
of modules and participating 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 and 
healthcare workers 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 risks.
    Healthcare institutions that participate in NHSN voluntarily report 
their data to the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in the 
National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention 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 a computer capable of supporting an 
internet service provider (ISP) and access to an ISP. The table below 
shows the estimated annual burden in hours to collect and report data.

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                                                                     Number of      Burden per
                      Title                          Number of      responses/     response  (in   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)          (hrs.)
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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
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
Antimicrobia 1 Use and Resistance (AUR)--                     20              36               2           1,440
 Pharmacy.......................................
Healthcare Personnel Safety Reporting Plan......              90               2           10/60              30
Healthcare Personnel Exposures to Blood/Body                  90              42               1           3,780
 Fluids.........................................
Healthcare Personnel Post-exposure Prophylaxis..              90               6           15/60             135
Healthcare Personnel Demographic Data...........              90              42           10/60             630
Healthcare Personnel Vaccination History........              90              42           15/60             945
Healthcare Personnel Facility Survey............              90               1               6             540
Healthcare Personnel Implementation of                        90               1               6             540
 Engineering Controls...........................
Healthcare Personnel Survey.....................              30               1           10/60               5
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          67,289
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    Dated: June 12, 2003.
Thomas A. Bartenfeld,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-15330 Filed 6-17-03; 8:45 am]
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