[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 51 (Friday, March 15, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 16518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06004]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


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

    Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information 
collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.

Project: Evaluation of Emergency Department Crisis Center Follow-Up--
New

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) will conduct an 
evaluation to assess the impact of crisis center follow-up with 
patients admitted to emergency departments following a suicide attempt.
    The overarching purpose of the proposed Evaluation of Emergency 
Department Crisis Center Follow-up--New is to examine the impact of 
crisis center follow-up with patients admitted to emergency departments 
following a suicide attempt on subsequent emergency department 
readmissions. In total this evaluation effort includes two data 
collection activities.
    Clearance is being requested to abstract patient hospital data and 
companion crisis center data to examine the impact of crisis center 
follow-up on readmissions to the emergency department for suicidal 
behavior. The data collected through this project will ultimately help 
SAMHSA to understand and direct crisis center follow-up lifesaving 
initiatives. The data collection activities are described below.
    Two funded crisis centers, working in collaboration with two 
hospital emergency departments, will provide follow-up services to 
patients seen in the emergency department following a suicide attempt. 
Patient data will be collected for patients admitted for a suicide 
attempt in the two years prior to collaboration between the emergency 
department and crisis center and for patients admitted for a suicide 
attempt for the 2-year period after collaboration.
    (1) The Hospital Data Abstraction Form will be utilized to collect 
systematic patient data for patients seen in one of the two 
participating hospital emergency departments. Information to be 
abstracted from patient data include: Demographic data, historical 
data, and subsequent suicidal behavioral and admission data. Data will 
be de-identified. Hospital staff will review patient data for 
qualifying (i.e., admission to the emergency department for suicide 
attempt) records. Records to be reviewed will include emergency 
department admissions for the two years prior to crisis center and 
hospital emergency department collaboration and for two years following 
collaboration. It is expected that a total of 2,000 records will be 
abstracted by hospital staff and provided to the evaluation team.
    (2) The Crisis Center Data Abstraction Form will be utilized to 
collect systematic crisis center data for patient records for whom 
hospital data were collected. Data will be de-identified and will only 
contain a patient identification number to match to the patient ID 
provided through hospital records.
    The estimated response burden to collect this information is as 
follows annualized over the requested 3-year clearance period is 
presented below:

                         Total and Annualized Averages: Respondents, Responses and Hours
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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number     Burden per    Annual  burden
           Instrument               respondents    respondent *    of responses      response            *
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Hospital Data Abstraction Form..               2             334             667             .04              27
Crisis Center Data Abstraction                 2             167             333             .04              13
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    Total.......................               4  ..............  ..............  ..............              40
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* Rounded to the nearest whole number.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by April 15, 2013 to the SAMHSA 
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing 
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged 
to submit their comments to OMB via email to: [email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to: 
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management 
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2013-06004 Filed 3-14-13; 8:45 am]
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