[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4396-4397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1653]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-10-09AM]


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 Associated Infections (HAIs) and 
Antimicrobial Use in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals--New--National Center 
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) (proposed), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC is requesting OMB approval to conduct two surveys to obtain 
national estimates of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) 
prevalence and antimicrobial use in the United States. Preventing HAIs 
is a CDC priority, and 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, including antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.
    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 
collected from a sample of 338 hospitals; 5% of hospitalized patients 
acquired an infection not present at the time of admission. CDC's 
current HAI surveillance system, the National Healthcare Safety Network 
(NHSN) (OMB Control No. 0920-0666, expiration date 9/30/2012), 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 
information collection request is to assess the magnitude and types of 
HAIs and antimicrobial use occurring in all patient populations within 
acute care hospitals in order to inform decisions made by local and 
national policy makers and hospital infection control personnel 
regarding appropriate targets and strategies for preventing HAIs and 
the emergence of antimicrobial- resistant pathogens and encouraging 
appropriate antimicrobial use. Such assessments can be obtained in 
periodic national prevalence studies, such as

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those that have been conducted in several European countries.
    CDC proposes to conduct two surveys to collect this data. The first 
survey will be a limited roll-out survey and will be conducted in 30 
facilities across 10 States in collaboration with State public health 
authorities and CDC's Emerging Infections Program (EIP). The survey 
will be conducted on a single day in participating facilities. 
Infection Control Practitioners in participating facilities, such as 
infection control personnel, will collect limited demographic and 
clinical information on a sample of eligible inpatients and, on the 
same day, EIP site personnel will collect information on HAIs and 
antimicrobial use for surveyed patients who are on antimicrobial 
therapy at the time of the survey. The second survey will involve 500 
facilities across the same 10 States and use the same methodology. As 
with the first survey, CDC will collaborate with State public health 
authorities and EIP sites.
    CDC will use the data provided to estimate the prevalence of HAIs 
and antimicrobial use across this sample of U.S. hospitals as well as 
to estimate the distribution of infection types, causative organisms, 
and nature of and rationale for antimicrobial use.
    This proposed project supports CDC's Strategic Goal of ``Healthy 
Healthcare Settings,'' specifically the objectives to ``Promote 
compliance with evidence-based guidelines for preventing, identifying, 
and managing disease in healthcare settings'' and ``Prevent adverse 
events in patients and healthcare workers 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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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Respondents                       Number of     responses per   per  response   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Infection Control Practitioners--Survey 1............................................
EIP personnel--Survey 1................              10              99           15/60             248
Infection Control Practitioners--Survey 2............................................
EIP personnel--Survey 2................              10            1650           15/60           4,125
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           8,039
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    Dated: January 22, 2010.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-1653 Filed 1-26-10; 8:45 am]
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