[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 200 (Monday, October 18, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61384-61386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-23220]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-04-040W]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    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 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human 
Resources and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

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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 table below shows 
the estimated annual burden in hours to collect and report data. The 
total burden hours are 65,817.

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                                                                                      No. of        Burden per
                              Title                                   No. of        responses/     response (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)
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Facility Contact Information....................................             350               1           10/60
Patient Safety Component Facility Characteristics...............             350               1           30/60
Agreement To Participate and Consent............................             350               1           15/60
Group Contact Information.......................................             350               1            5/60
Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan...........................             350               9           25/60
Healthcare Personnel Safety Reporting Plan......................              90               2           10/60
Patient Data*...................................................  ..............  ..............  ..............
Primary Bloodstream Infection (BSI)**...........................             200              36           25/60
Pneumonia (PNEU)................................................             200              72           25/60
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)...................................             200              27           25/60
Surgical Site Infection (SSI)...................................             200              27           25/60
Dialysis Incident (DI)..........................................              80              90           12/60
Custom Event (not reported to CDC)..............................  ..............  ..............  ..............
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)--Microbiology Laboratory               20              45               3
 Data**.........................................................
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)--Pharmacy Data**.........              20              36               2
Denominators for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Other Locations (Not              245              18               5
 NICU or SCA)...................................................
Denominators for Specialty Care Area (SCA)......................              75               9               5
Denominators for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)............             100               9               4
Denominators for Procedure......................................             200             540            5/60
Dialysis Log Form (Not reported to CDC).........................  ..............  ..............  ..............
Denominators for Outpatient Dialysis............................              80               9            5/60
Patient Safety Component--Hemodialysis Center Practices Survey..              80               1               1
List of Blood Isolates+.........................................             350               1               1
Manual Categorization of Positive Blood Cultures+...............             350               1               1
Exposures to Blood/Body Fluids..................................              90              42               1
Healthcare Personnel Post Exposure Prophylaxis..................              90               6           15/60
Healthcare Personnel Demographic Data...........................              90              42           10/60
Healthcare Personnel Vaccination History........................              90              42           15/60
Annual Facility Survey..........................................              90               1             5.5
Implementation of Engineering Controls..........................              90               1           30/60
Healthcare Personnel Survey.....................................              90              10          10/60
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* Data on Patient Data Form are entered as part of an adverse event (AE), so the burden of these data are
  included under each AE form's burden estimate.
** Burden will be eliminated when reporting these data once an HHSN institution implements electronic data
  capture.
+ Burden during Validation phase only, then eliminated.



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    Dated: October 12, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-23220 Filed 10-15-04; 8:45 am]
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