[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 149 (Friday, August 1, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45011-45012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-17603]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-08-0278]


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

    National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey [OMB No. 0920-
0278]--Revision--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) has 
been conducted annually since 1992. The purpose of NHAMCS is to meet 
the needs and demands for statistical information about the provision 
of ambulatory medical care services in the United States. Ambulatory 
services are rendered in a wide variety of settings, including 
physicians' offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments. 
The target of the NHAMCS to date has been in-person visits made to 
outpatient departments (OPDs) and emergency departments (EDs) of non-
Federal, short stay hospitals (hospitals with an average length of stay 
of less than 30 days) or those whose specialty is general (medical or 
surgical) or children's general.
    This revision is to transfer data gathering from the previously 
conducted National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS) (OMB No. 0920-
0334) to NHAMCS. After the 1994-1996 NSAS, funds were not available to 
gather this important, and much sought after, data until 2006. Due to a 
lack of funds it has not been possible to conduct an independent NSAS 
since that time and so, for 2009, NCHS proposes to begin the expansion 
of NHAMCS data gathering to include hospital-based ambulatory surgery 
centers (ASCs). Beginning in 2010, NCHS plans to seek OMB approval to 
expand NHAMCS to also include free-standing ASCs. The objective of this 
new collection will be to collect data about ambulatory surgery 
centers, the patients they serve, and the services they deliver. It 
will remain the principal source of data on ambulatory surgery center 
services in the United States. It has been the benchmark against which 
special programmatic data sources are compared. NHAMCS ASC data that 
will be collected include patient characteristics, diagnoses, surgical 
and nonsurgical procedures, provider and type of anesthesia, time in 
and out of surgery and postoperative care, and discharge disposition.
    Users of NHAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional 
offices, Federal agencies, state and local governments, schools of 
public health, colleges and universities, private industry, nonprofit 
foundations, professional associations, clinicians, researchers, 
administrators, and health planners. There are no costs to the 
respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized 
burden hours are 9,186.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
          Type of respondent                    Form name           respondents    responses per   response  (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Hospital Chief Medical Officer........  Hospital Induction                   470               1           55/60
                                         (NHAMCS-101).
Ancillary Service Executive...........  Ambulatory Unit                      845               2               1
                                         Induction (NHAMCS-101/
                                         U).
Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical      ED Patient Record form               220             100            7/60
 Record Clerk.                           NHAMCS-100 (ED)].
Medical Record Clerk..................  Pulling and re-filing                393             132            1/60
                                         Patient Records.
Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical      OPD Patient Record form              125             200            6/60
 Record Clerk.                           [NHAMCS-100 (OPD)].
Physician/Phys. Asst./Nurse             Cervical Cancer                      250               1           15/60
 Practitioner/Nurse Midwife.             Screening Supplement
                                         (CCSS) (NHAMCS-906).
Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical      ASC Patient Record form              107             100            6/60
 Record Clerk.                           NHAMCS-100 (ASC).
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    Dated: July 24, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-17603 Filed 7-31-08; 8:45 am]
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