[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 19 (Friday, January 30, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5658-5659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-2002]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day-09-09AM]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
Alternatively, to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instrument, call 404-639-5960 and send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, 
CDC Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333; comments may also be sent by e-mail to [email protected].
    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 a 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 clarify 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 information technology. Written comments 
should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Prevalence Survey of Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs) in U.S. 
Acute Care Hospitals--New--National Center for Preparedness, Detection, 
and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC is requesting OMB approval to conduct a survey to obtain 
national estimates of HAIs prevalence in the United States. Preventing 
HAIs is a CDC priority. An essential step in reducing the occurrence of 
HAIs is to accurately estimate the burden of these infections in U.S. 
hospitals and to describe the types of HAIs and their causative 
organisms. The scope and magnitude of HAIs in the U.S. were last 
directly estimated in the 1970s and 1980s by CDC's Study on the 
Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC), in which 
comprehensive data were

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collected from a sample of 338 hospitals; 5% of hospitalized patients 
acquired an infection not present at the time of admission. Because of 
the substantial resources necessary to conduct hospital-wide 
surveillance in an ongoing manner, CDC's current HAI surveillance 
system, the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), focuses instead 
on device-associated and procedure-associated infections in a variety 
of patient locations, and does not receive data on all types of HAIs to 
make hospital-wide burden estimates. The purpose of this data 
collection is to assess the magnitude and types of HAIs occurring in 
all patient populations within acute care hospitals in order to inform 
decisions by local and national policy makers and hospital infection 
control personnel regarding appropriate targets and strategies for HAI 
prevention. Such assessments can be obtained in periodic national 
prevalence studies, such as those that have been conducted in several 
European countries.
    The proposed survey will be conducted in a representative sample of 
500 U.S. acute care hospitals, and will require infection control 
personnel in each participating hospital to collect surveillance data 
on CDC-defined HAIs on a single day for a sample of eligible patients 
in the participating hospitals. CDC will use the data provided to 
estimate the prevalence of HAIs across this representative sample of 
U.S. hospitals as well as the distribution of infection types and 
causative organisms. CDC will also use this data to promote its goal of 
preventing HAIs.
    The proposed project supports CDC's Strategic Goal of ``Healthy 
Healthcare Settings,'' specifically the objective to ``Promote 
compliance with evidence-based guidelines for preventing, identifying, 
and managing disease in healthcare settings.'' There are no costs to 
respondents, other than their time to complete the survey.

                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
                   Respondents                      respondents    responses per   response (in     (in hours)
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Infection Control Practitioners.................             500              74           15/60           9,250
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           9,250
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    Dated: January 22, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
 [FR Doc. E9-2002 Filed 1-29-09; 8:45 am]
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