[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 8 (Friday, January 11, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2411-2412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00364]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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 the Office of Management and Budget 
(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, email [email protected] or 
call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.
    HRSA especially requests comments on: (1) The necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.
    Information Collection Request Title: Patient Survey-Health Centers 
(OMB No. 0915-xxxx) NEW.
    The Health Center program supports Health Centers (HCs), Migrant 
Health Centers (MHCs), Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs, 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 nationally in-depth 
information about HC patients, their health status, the reasons they 
seek care at the 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. Prior to the national study, a cognitive 
pre-test will be conducted to refine and test the survey instrument in 
different languages, and to test the survey sampling methodologies and 
procedures. The pre-test will include cognitive interviews to ensure 
that the questions are being understood as was intended. Interviews 
conducted in the pre-test and the national study are estimated to take 
approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes each.
    The Patient Survey builds on previous periodic Patient User-Visit 
Surveys, which were conducted to learn about the process and outcomes 
of care in HCs and MHCs, HCHs, and PHPCs. The original questionnaires 
were derived from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the 
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the 
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Conformance with the NHIS 
and NAMCS allowed comparisons between these NCHS surveys and the 
previous HC 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 
HCs and HCHs with the previous User-Visit survey data, including 
monitoring of processes and outcomes over time. In addition, this 
survey will be conducted in languages not used during previous surveys 
(which were conducted in English and Spanish) to include patients from 
different racial and ethnic backgrounds, including Chinese (Mandarin 
and Cantonese), Korean, and Vietnamese. With the exception of Spanish 
speakers, other racial and ethnic subgroups were not able to 
participate in the previous surveys.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

                                                 Survey Pretest
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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total  burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Grantee/Site Recruitment........               2               3               6            3.00           18.00

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Patient Recruitment (At clinic).              21               1              21             .17            3.57
Patient Survey (Administered at               16               1              16            1.25           20.00
 clinic)........................
Patient Recruitment (Through                  71               1              71             .08            5.68
 local advertisements/flyers/
 word-of-mouth).................
Patient Survey (Administered                  55               1              55            1.25           68.75
 following local advertising)...
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    Total Pretest...............  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............          116.00
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                                                 National Study
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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total  burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Grantee/Site Recruitment and                 165               3             495            3.75        1,856.25
 Training.......................
Patient Recruitment.............           9,207               1           9,207             .17        1,565.19
Patient Survey..................           6,600               1           6,600            1.25        8,250.00
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    Total National Study........  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............       11,671.44
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    Addresses: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn Building, 5600 
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
    Deadline: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be 
received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: January 3, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-00364 Filed 1-10-13; 8:45 am]
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