[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 202 (Monday, October 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62637-62638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24872]


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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 November 
19, 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: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the

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information request collection title for reference.

Information Collection Request Title: Be The Match[supreg] Patient 
Services Survey OMB No. 0915-xxxx--NEW

    Abstract: National Marrow Donor Program[supreg]/Be The 
Match[supreg] is dedicated to helping patients and families get the 
support and information they need to learn about their disease and 
treatment options, prepare for transplant, and thrive after transplant. 
The information and resources provided are intended to help navigate 
the bone marrow or cord blood transplant (transplant) process. 
Participant feedback is essential to understand the needs for 
transplant support services and educational information across a 
diverse population. This information will be used to determine 
helpfulness of existing services and resources. Feedback is also used 
to identify areas for improvement and to develop future programs.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Barriers restricting 
access to bone marrow or cord blood transplant (transplant) related 
care and educational information are multi-factorial. Feedback from 
participants is essential to better understand the changing needs for 
services and information as well as to demonstrate the effectiveness of 
existing services. The primary use for information gathered through the 
survey is to determine helpfulness of participants' initial contact 
with Be The Match[supreg] Patient Services Coordinators (PSC) and to 
identify areas for improvement in the delivery of services.
    The survey will include these items to measure: (1) Reason for 
contacting Be The Match[supreg]; (2) if the PSC was able to answer 
questions and easy to understand; (3) if the contact helped the 
participant to feel better prepared to discuss transplant with their 
care team; (4) increase in awareness of available resources; (5) 
timeliness of response; and (6) overall satisfaction. Stakeholders 
utilize this evaluation data to make program and resource allocation 
decisions.
    Likely Respondents: Respondents will include patients, caregivers, 
and family members contacting Be The Match[supreg] Patient Services 
Coordinators. Respondents will include all patients, caregivers, and 
family members who have contact with Be The Match[supreg] Patient 
Services Coordinators via phone or email for transplant navigation 
services and support (advocacy). The decision to survey all 
participants was made based on historic evidence of patients' 
unavailability due to frequent transitions in health status as well as 
between home and the hospital for initial treatment and care for 
complications.
    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.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of         Total        burden per     Total burden
            Form name               respondents    responses per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                    respondent                        hours)
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Be The Match[supreg] Patient                 420               1             420            0.25             105
 Services Survey................
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    Total.......................             420               1             420            0.25             105
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    The total respondent burden for the satisfaction survey is 
estimated to be 105 hours. We expect a total of 420 respondents (33% 
response rate) to complete the Be The Match[supreg] Patient Services 
Survey.

    Dated: October 10, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-24872 Filed 10-17-14; 8:45 am]
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