[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 148 (Thursday, July 31, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 44751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-17505]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Data Collection; Comment Request; Public Health Service; 
The National Survey of Physician Attitudes Regarding the Care of Cancer 
Survivors (SPARCCS) (NCI)

SUMMARY: In compliance with the provisions of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public 
comments on proposed data collection projects, the National Institutes 
of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) will publish periodic 
summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.
    Proposed Collection: Title: The National Survey of Physician 
Attitudes Regarding the Care of Cancer Survivors (SPARCCS); Type of 
Information Collection Request: NEW; Need and Use of Information 
Collection: The purpose of SPARCCS is to identify the beliefs, 
knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary care physicians and 
cancer specialists regarding the components described by the Institute 
of Medicine's (IOM) 2005 report that described the essential components 
of cancer survivorship care within a health care delivery system. These 
data will inform the process of standardization of survivorship care 
practices; augment the data collected in other cancer survivorship 
studies such as the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance 
Consortium (CanCORS), and the Cancer Research Network; and monitor the 
progress made toward achieving NCI strategic goals of improving the 
quality of cancer care across the cancer control continuum. Two 
questionnaires, one sent to primary care physicians and one sent to 
medical oncologists, will be administered by mail to a randomly 
selected national sample of 2,200 physicians. Study participants will 
be 1,100 practicing physicians who are family practitioners, general 
internists, and obstetrician/gynecologists and 1,100 medical 
oncologists. Frequency of Response: Once. Affected Public: Individuals 
and Businesses. Type of Respondents: Primary care and medical oncology 
physicians practicing in a non-federal facility. The annual reporting 
burden is estimated at 903 hours as shown in Table 1. The total burden 
hours is estimated at 1,808 hours over the two year field period of the 
study. There are no capital, operating or maintenance costs to report.

                                    Table 1--Estimates of Annual Burden Hours
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                                                                                   Average time
      Type of respondents            Survey          Number of     Frequency of    per response    Annual burden
                                                    respondents      response     (minutes/hour)       hours
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Receptionists.................  Screener........           2,033               1            5/60             169
Family Practice...............  PCP Instrument..             250               1           20/60              83
General Internists............  PCP Instrument..             250               1           20/60              83
OB/GYNs.......................  PCP Instrument..              50               1           20/60              17
Oncologists...................  Oncology                     550               1           20/60             183
                                 Instrument.
Receptionists & Administrators  Follow-Up Phone            1,103               4            5/60             368
                                 Calls.
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    Total.....................  ................           4,236  ..............  ..............             903
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    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the performance of the functions of the agency, including 
whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of 
the collection of information on respondents, including through the use 
of automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Send comments to Arnold Potosky, PhD, 
Health Services and Economics, Branch Applied Research Program, 
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer 
Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd., EPN Room 4005, Bethesda, MD 20892-7344 
Telephone: (301) 496-5662; e-mail: [email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60 days 
of the date of this publication.

    Dated: July 21, 2008.
Vivian Horovitch-Kelley,
NCI Project Clearance Liaison Office, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. E8-17505 Filed 7-30-08; 8:45 am]
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