[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 10, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75120-75121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-29202]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources And Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, call 
the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper 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.

Proposed Project: Health Centers Patient Survey--(NEW)

    The Health Center program supports Community Health Centers (CHCs), 
Migrant Health Centers (MHCs), Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) 
projects, and Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) programs. Health 
Centers (HCs) receive grants from HRSA to provide primary and 
preventive health care services to medically underserved populations.
    The proposed Patient Survey will collect in-depth information about 
HC patients, their health status, the reasons they seek care at HCs, 
their diagnoses, the services they utilize at HCs and elsewhere, the 
quality of those services, and their satisfaction with the care they 
receive, through personal interviews of a stratified random sample of 
HC patients. Interviews are planned to take approximately 1 hour and 
six minutes each.
    The Patient Survey builds on previous periodic User-Visit Surveys 
which were conducted to learn about the process and outcomes of care in 
CHCs and HCH projects. The original questionnaires were derived from 
the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the National Hospital 
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) conducted by the National 
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Conformance with the NHIS and 
NHAMCS allowed comparisons between these NCHS surveys and the previous 
CHC and HCH User-Visit Surveys. The new Patient Survey was developed 
using a questionnaire methodology similar to that used in the past, and 
will also potentially allow some longitudinal comparisons for CHCs and 
HCH projects with the previous User-Visit survey data, including 
monitoring of process outcomes over time. In addition, this survey will 
include interviews of patients drawn from migrant populations and from 
residents of public housing, populations not included in the previous 
surveys.
    The estimated response burden for the survey is as follows:

                                                                         Survey
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  Type of
respondent;                                                       Responses  per    Total number of     Burden per
  activity                  Number of respondents                   respondent         responses         response      Total hour burden
  involved                                                                                                (hours)
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 Grantee/     115..............................................                 3               345              3.75           1294
   Site
 Recruitmen
 t and Site
 Training
 Patient      5658.............................................                 1              5658              .167            945
 Recruitmen
      t
 Patient     4526..............................................                 1              4526               1.1           4979
 Survey
   4526
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    Total..   5773.............................................  ................             10529  ................           7218
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    E-mail comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Reports 
Clearance Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.

Wendy Ponton,
Director, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. E8-29202 Filed 12-9-08; 8:45 am]
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