[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 32 (Thursday, February 16, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8305-8306]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-2209]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-06-05AB]


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) 639-4766 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974. 
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Public Health Injury Surveillance and Prevention Program--Traumatic 
Brain Injuries (0920-05AB)--New--The National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Injury is the leading cause of death and disability among children 
and young adults. In 2000, more than 148,000 people died from injuries. 
Among them: 43,354 died from motor-vehicle crashes; 29,350 died from 
suicide; 16,765 died from homicide; 13,322 died from unintentional 
falls; 12,757 from unintentional poisonings; 3,482 died from 
unintentional drowning; 3,377 died from fires. These external causes 
often result in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Each year, an estimated 
1.5 million Americans sustain a TBI. As a consequence of these TBI 
injuries: 230,000 people are hospitalized and survive; 50,000 people 
die; 80,000 to 90,000 people experience the onset of long-term 
disability. An estimated 5.3 million Americans live with a permanent 
TBI-related disability. However, this estimate does not include people 
with ``mild'' TBI who are seen in emergency departments or outpatient 
encounters, nor those who do not receive medical care. The annual 
economic burden of TBI in the United States has been estimated at $56.3 
billion in 1995 however, human costs of the long-term impairments and 
disabilities associated with TBI are incalculable. Because many TBI 
related disabilities are not conspicuous deficits, they are referred to 
as the invisible or silent epidemic. These disabilities, arising from 
cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor impairments, often permanently 
alter a person's ability to maximize daily life experiences and have 
profound effects on social and family relationships. To implement more 
effective programs to prevent these injuries, we need reliable data on 
their

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causes and risk factors. State surveillance data can be used to: 
Identify trends in TBI incidence; enable the development of cause-
specific prevention strategies focused on populations at greatest risk 
and monitor the effectiveness of such programs.
    This project will develop and sustain injury surveillance programs 
including those with a focus on TBI and emergency department 
surveillance for mild TBI. The goal of this program is to produce data 
of demonstrated quality that will (a) be useful to State injury 
prevention and control programs, (b) enable states to produce injury 
indicators, (c) enable estimates of TBI incidence and public health 
consequences and (d) facilitate the use of TBI surveillance data to 
link individuals with information about TBI services.
    Program recipients will collect information from pre-existing state 
data sets to calculate injury indicators in their state. In addition a 
small group of states will review and abstract medical records to 
obtain data for variables that address severity of injury, 
circumstances and etiology of injury, and early outcome of injury, in a 
large representative sample of reported cases of TBI-related 
hospitalization and mild TBI-related emergency department visits. The 
abstracted data will be stripped of all identifying information before 
submitting to CDC. States will use standardized data elements. The 
number of state health departments to be funded for data abstraction 
may be as high as 12. The only cost to the respondents is the time 
involved to complete the data abstraction. The estimated total burden 
hours are 12000.
    Estimated annualized burden table

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                                                                                   Number of     Average burden/
                         Respondents                              Number of        responses/     response  (in
                                                                 respondents       respondent         hours)
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State Health Departments.....................................              12             1000            60/60
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    Dated: February 9, 2006.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E6-2209 Filed 2-15-06; 8:45 am]
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