[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 86 (Monday, May 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25598-25599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-10191]


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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

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. 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.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than June 4, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information 
Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Patient Survey-Health Centers 
OMB No. 0915-0368--New.
    Abstract: HRSA's Health Center Program awards grants to provide 
primary and preventive health care services to medically underserved 
and vulnerable populations. The proposed Health Center Patient Survey 
(HCPS) will collect national, in-depth information about health center 
patients, their health status, the reasons they seek care at the health 
centers, their diagnoses, the services they utilize at health centers 
and elsewhere, the quality of those services, and their satisfaction 
with the care they receive through personal interviews of a stratified 
random sample of health center patients. Interviews conducted in the 
national study are estimated to take approximately 1 hour and 15 
minutes each.
    The HCPS builds on previous periodic Patient User-Visit Surveys 
which were conducted to learn about the process and outcomes of care in 
health centers reaching goals under the Health Center Program. 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 Patient User-Visit Surveys. The new HCPS 
was developed using a questionnaire methodology similar to that used in 
the past, and will also potentially allow some time-trend comparisons 
for health centers with the previous Patient 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 (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.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The HCPS is unique in its 
effort to capture national, person-level data from patients of all 
types of Health Center Program grantees. The data collected from the 
HCPS will be used to:
     Gather nationally representative data about the patients 
of the programs and the services they obtain;
     enable comparisons of care received by health center 
patients with care received by the general population, as measured by 
NHIS and other national surveys;
     assess how well HRSA-supported health centers are 
currently able to meet health care needs;
     identify areas for improvement and guide planning 
decisions; and
     complement data that are not routinely collected from 
other Bureau of Primary Health Care data sources.
    The specific priorities for analysis will be comparisons of health 
center patients with patients served in other primary care settings 
with respect to:
     Access to care;
     health disparities;
     health conditions;
     quality of care;
     care coordination; and
     patient experience.
    Comparisons will be made with results from national surveys and 
with results from the 2009 Patient Survey.
    Likely Respondents: Health center patients.
    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.

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                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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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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Patient Screening...............           6,996               1           6,996             .17           1,189
Patient Survey..................           6,600               1           6,600            1.25           8,250
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    Total National Study........           6,996               1          13,596            1.42           9,439
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    Dated: April 25, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-10191 Filed 5-2-14; 8:45 am]
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