[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 250 (Friday, December 29, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 78442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-22381]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-07-06AI]


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) 639-5960 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

    Metropolitan Atlanta Stillbirth Management Survey: Knowledge, 
Attitudes and Practice Patterns from Obstetricians,--New--National 
Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The U.S. Congress House Report 108-792 (joint conference report for 
the Fiscal Year 2005 omnibus appropriations bill) provides specific 
funding to devise a comprehensive strategy for expanding existing birth 
defects surveillance systems to incorporate surveillance data on all 
intrauterine fetal deaths of 20 or more week's gestation into the 
Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program (MACDP). Stillbirth is 
largely an understudied adverse pregnancy outcome even though it 
accounts for nearly one half of all perinatal mortality. There is 
currently no nationally accepted definition of what constitutes a 
stillbirth, and there are no universally recommended, standardized 
stillbirth evaluation protocols in use for the evaluation of fetal 
deaths. The proposed survey has been designed to evaluate and assess 
the knowledge, attitudes and practice management patterns of 
obstetricians in the metropolitan Atlanta area regarding stillbirths in 
general, as well as in their medical practice. This information will be 
used to identify prevailing deficiencies leading to incomplete and 
inaccurate reporting of data relative to stillbirths, and to develop 
targeted awareness and educational strategies for participating MACDP 
facilities. Ongoing, accurate and reliable population-based registries 
of stillbirths are essential for conducting epidemiologic studies on 
the causes of and risk factors for this pregnancy outcome. This survey 
will be mailed to randomly selected obstetricians whose practices serve 
residents of the 5 counties comprising metropolitan Atlanta. This 
survey will be conducted once and will take approximately 2-3 months to 
collect the data. NCBDDD is requesting OMB clearance for 1 (one) year. 
There is no cost to the survey respondents except for the time 
necessary to complete the survey. The total annual burden hours are 122

                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
            Respondents                  Participant  status        respondents    reponses per    response  (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Obstetricians......................  Non-Participant............             120               1            1/60
                                     Participant................             480               1           15/60
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    Dated: December 22, 2006.
Joan F. Karr,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
 [FR Doc. E6-22381 Filed 12-28-06; 8:45 am]
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