[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 158 (Thursday, August 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47604-47605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18820]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-08-08BA]


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.

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Proposed Project

    Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) Projects--New--National 
Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) is a core component of 
CDC's Emerging Infections Program Network (EIP), a collaboration 
between CDC, state health departments, and universities. ABCs is an 
active laboratory- and population-based surveillance system for six 
invasive bacterial pathogens of public health importance (group A and 
group B streptococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, 
Streptococcus pneumoniae, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus 
aureus). Case finding is active and laboratory-based. Following the 
identification of cases, a standard case report is completed on all 
identified cases through medical record review. Data collection is 
performed differently in each surveillance area, for example, through 
the cooperation of on-site hospital personnel (e.g., Infection Control 
Practitioners or Medical Records personnel); through medical record 
review or clinician interview by county health department personnel; or 
through medical record review by surveillance personnel. Case report 
forms are entered into a secure computerized database and maintained at 
each surveillance site. The computerized databases, with personal 
identifiers removed, are transmitted to CDC by the fifth of every 
month.
    The data collection has important practical utility to the 
government as well as EIP populations and the American population as a 
whole. ABCs data is critical for documenting disease burden and 
describing the epidemiology of invasive bacterial disease, tracking 
trends in antimicrobial resistance, contributing to the development and 
evaluation of new vaccines, developing and assessing public health 
prevention measures, and improving overall public health practice. 
Current information on disease incidence is needed to study present and 
emerging disease problems. The ABCs surveillance system provides data 
for those engaged in research or medical practice, health education 
officials, and manufacturers of pharmaceutical products which may lead 
to effective prevention strategies and enhanced interventions.
    Respondents for each of the data collection forms are state health 
departments (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, 
Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Tennessee) who are 
recipients of funding through the EIP cooperative agreement. The number 
of responses is dependent on the number of cases that are identified. 
Number of ``responses'' for all case report forms must be estimated not 
knowing before hand how many cases will occur.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total 
estimated annualized burden is 4918 hours.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
               Form name                   Type of respondent        Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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ABCs Case Report Form.................  State Health Department.              10             809           20/60
Invasive Methicillin-resistant          State Health Department.              10             609           20/60
 Staphylococcus aureus ABCs Case
 Report Form.
ABCs Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in   State Health Department.              10              41           10/60
 Children Case Report Form.
Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease  State Health Department.              10              37           20/60
 Prevention Tracking Form.
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    Dated: August 5, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-18820 Filed 8-13-08; 8:45 am]
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