[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 245 (Thursday, December 21, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76669-76670]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-21783]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: OS-0990-0000, 60-day notice]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), 
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following 
summary of a proposed collection for public comment. Interested persons 
are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any 
other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the 
following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed 
information collection for the proper performance of the agency's 
functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology to minimize the information collection 
burden.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Existing collection in use 
without an OMB control number.

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    Title of Information Collection: National Blood Collection and 
Utilization Survey.
    Form/OMB No.: 0990-0000.
    Use: The Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability, HHS, 
was established to provide policy advice to the Secretary and the 
Assistant Secretary for Health. The advice of the committee is partly 
dependent on the analysis of relevant blood collection and utilization 
data which is also widely distributed to and used by the transfusion 
medicine community. To that end, the Office of Public Health and 
Science (OPHS) is responsible for conducting a bi-annual cross-
sectional national blood products survey. OPHS performed the 2005 
National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey (NBCUS) using a 
nationally representative sample of hospitals and blood collection 
centers. Previously private and government financed versions of the 
NBCUS have successfully surveyed greater than 90% of the U.S. blood 
collection and processing facilities and more than 2900 hospital based 
transfusion blood banks in the United States. The objective of the 2007 
NBCUS is to produce reliable and accurate estimates of national and 
regional collections, utilization, and safety of all blood products--
red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, and platelets. Additionally, data 
regarding billing and payment for blood and blood products will be 
collected. New to the 2007 NBCUS is the identification and collection 
of baseline data for biovigilance blood safety monitoring. An important 
purpose of the survey is to help the federal government implement a 
blood safety public health monitoring system. The survey will be mailed 
to approximately 3000 institutions that include hospitals, blood 
collection facilities, and cord blood banks selected from the American 
Hospital Association annual survey database and AABB member list of 
blood collection facilities, respectively. The maximum length of the 
instrument will be 13 to 18 pages and the estimated number of data 
elements will be 200 to 300. The survey will include questions about 
the institution, blood collection and processing, blood transfusion, 
cellular therapy products, and product modification and final 
disposition. The 2007 NBCUS will also include additional questions on 
issues of biovigilance patient safety monitoring. Facilities will be 
surveyed regarding their 2006 calendar year activities. A toll-free 
hotline service for survey inquiries will be made available. Follow-up 
procedures will be in place to address survey non-responders. Following 
data collection, statistical tabulations of results for each question 
will be performed. The survey data will be analyzed by institution 
type, services provided, USPHS region, etc. A final comprehensive 
report on blood collection and transfusion-related activities in the 
United States will be issued by HHS.
    Frequency: Once.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Annual Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Total Annual Responses: 3,000.
    Average Burden per Response: 3 hrs.
    Total Annual Hours: 9,000.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, e-mail your 
request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and OS 
document identifier, to [email protected], or call the 
Reports Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be 
received within 60-days, and directed to the OS Paperwork Clearance 
Officer at the following address: Department of Health and Human 
Services, Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Resources 
and Technology, Office of Resources Management, Attention: Sherrette 
Funn-Coleman (0990-0000), Room 537-H, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington DC 20201.

    Dated: December 13, 2006.
Alice Bettencourt,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance 
Officer.
 [FR Doc. E6-21783 Filed 12-20-06; 8:45 am]
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