[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 223 (Friday, November 18, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71578-71579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29830]


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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 obtain a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email 
[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: National Survey of Organ Donation Attitudes and 
Practices (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[New]

    The Division of Transplantation (DoT), Healthcare Systems Bureau, 
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is planning to 
conduct a telephone survey of public knowledge, perceptions, opinion, 
and behaviors related to organ donation. Two key missions of the DoT 
are (1) to provide oversight for the Organ Procurement and 
Transplantation Network and policy development related to organ 
donation and transplantation and (2) to implement efforts to increase 
public knowledge about the need for increased organ donation.
    With a constantly growing deficit between the number of Americans 
needing donor organs (currently approximately 112,000) and the annual 
number of donors (14,505 in 2010), raising the American public's 
willingness to donate becomes increasingly critical. Effective 
education and outreach campaigns need to be based on knowledge of the 
public's attitudes and perceptions about, and perceived impediments to, 
organ donation. Two national surveys using nearly identical survey 
instruments to identify public views and behaviors related to organ 
donation were conducted in 1993 and 2005.
    The proposed study will identify current organ donation views and 
practices of the American public and various population subgroups using 
a survey instrument similar to the two earlier studies in order to 
track changes over time. It will measure issues such as public 
knowledge about and attitudes toward organ donation, public commitment 
to or willingness to donate, impediments to public willingness to 
donate, and attitudes toward living donation, donation practices, 
policy issues, allocation policy, presumed consent, and financial 
incentives for donation. Demographic information also will be 
collected. The randomly drawn sample will consist of 3,250 adults (age 
18 and over), including an oversample of Asians, Hispanics, African 
Americans, and Native Americans, and will be geographically 
representative of the United States. The survey instrument will be 
administered in both English and Spanish through computer-assisted 
telephone interviews.
    In addition to being useful to the DoT (especially in its donation 
outreach initiatives), results of this survey also will be of 
assistance to the donation and transplant community, DoT grantees and 
other research efforts, and to the

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Secretary's Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT) as it 
fulfills its charge to advise the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services on the numerous and often controversial issues related to 
donation and transplantation. In its first meeting, the ACOT suggested 
such a survey to gather information to inform both public education 
efforts and policy decisions on the issue of organ donation.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total  burden
           Instrument               respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Telephone survey................           3,250               1           3,250             0.3             975
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    Total.......................           3,250               1           3,250             0.3             975
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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 email to [email protected] or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
    A similar request for public comments was published in the Federal 
Register on September 20, 2011 (76 FR 58282).

    Dated: November 14, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-29830 Filed 11-17-11; 8:45 am]
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