[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 66 (Friday, April 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17159-17160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-6415]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: OS-0990-0000]


Thirty-Day Notice

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary.

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment 
Request

    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 without an OMB number.
    Title of Information Collection: National Blood Collection and 
Utilization Survey.
    Form/OMB No.: OS-0990-New.
    Use: The Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability, 
Health and Human Services (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 
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. New to the 2007 
NBCUS is the identification and collection of baseline data for 
biovigilance blood safety

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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 approximately 20-21 pages and 
the estimated number of data elements will be 200 to 300. The survey 
will include general questions about the institution, questions about 
blood collection, processing, and testing, blood transfusion, special 
procedures and product disposition, cellular therapy products, and 
human tissue. 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 for publication by HHS.
    Frequency: One time.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Annual Number of Respondents: 3000.
    Total Annual Responses: 3000.
    Average Burden Per Response: 3 hours.
    Total Annual Hours: 9000.
    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 30 days of this notice directly to the Desk Officer at 
the address below:
    OMB Desk Officer: John Kraemer, OMB Human Resources and Housing 
Branch, Attention: (OMB 0990-New), New Executive Office 
Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: March 29, 2007.
Alice Bettencourt,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance 
Officer.
 [FR Doc. E7-6415 Filed 4-5-07; 8:45 am]
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