[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9251-9252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4460]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request 
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, e-mail 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 
443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:
    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 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 
health center patients, their health

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status, the reasons they seek care at health centers, their diagnoses, 
the services they utilize at health centers and elsewhere, the quality 
of those services, and their satisfaction with the care they receive, 
through personal interviews of a stratified random sample of health 
center 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 survey questions 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 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; these populations were not included in the 
previous surveys.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
    The estimated response burden for the survey is as follows:

                                                     Survey
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                                                              Responses      Total      Burden per
     Type of respondent; activity involved       Number of       per       number of     response     Total hour
                                                respondents   respondent   responses      (hours)       burden
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Grantee/Site Recruitment and Site Training....          115            3          345         3.75         1,294
Patient Recruitment...........................        5,658            1        5,658          .167          945
Patient Survey................................        4,526            1        4,526         1.1          4,979
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    Total.....................................        5,773  ...........       10,529  ............        7,218
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: February 24, 2009.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E9-4460 Filed 3-2-09; 8:45 am]
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