[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 90 (Thursday, May 9, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27240-27241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-11088]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA) will submit an Information Collection 
Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Comments 
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided 
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the 
review and approval period. To request a copy of the clearance requests 
submitted to OMB for review, email [email protected] or call the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.

Information Collection Request Title: Patient Survey--Health Centers 
(OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[NEW]

    Abstract: The Health Center program supports Community Health 
Centers (CHCs), 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 information about 
HC patients, regarding their health status, the reasons for seeking 
care at HCs, their health-related diagnoses, health services they 
obtain at HCs and from other healthcare settings, the quality of those 
services received, and their satisfaction with the care they received. 
This information will be collected through in-person interviews from a 
nationally representative sample of HC patients. Prior to the 
deployment of the national study, a cognitive pre-test will be 
conducted to refine and test the face validity and internal validity of 
questions in the survey instrument in different languages, and test the 
survey sampling methodologies and procedures. The pre-test will include 
cognitive interviews to ensure that the questions are being understood 
as were intended. Interviews conducted in the pre-test and the national 
study are

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estimated to take approximately up to 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 CHCs, 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 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 time-trend comparisons for HCs with the 
previous User-Visit survey data, including monitoring of processes and 
outcomes over time. In addition, this wave of the survey will be 
conducted in languages not used in previous surveys (English and 
Spanish only), and will include patients from the fastest growing U.S. 
population segment, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Languages 
that will be used in the proposed survey include Chinese (Mandarin and 
Cantonese), Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, and English. With the 
exception of Spanish speakers, other racial and ethnic subgroups were 
not able to participate in previous surveys in their own languages.
    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 ICR are summarized in the table below.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                                                                  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            3.0            18.00
Patient Recruitment (At clinic).              21               1              21            0.17            3.57
Patient Survey (Administered at               15               1              15            1.25           18.75
 clinic)........................
Patient Recruitment (Through                  71               1              71            0.08            5.68
 local advertisements/flyers/
 word-of-mouth).................
Patient Survey (Administered                  54               1              54            1.25           67.50
 following local advertising)...
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    Total Pretest...............              69  ..............  ..............  ..............          113.50
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to the desk officer for HRSA, either by 
email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. Please 
direct all correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for 
HRSA.''
    Deadline: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of 
this notice.

    Dated: May 3, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-11088 Filed 5-8-13; 8:45 am]
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