[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 92 (Friday, May 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 22066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10090]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a 
comprehensive web-based Library of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 
(PCOR) Resources to help make available the PCOR research, findings, 
tools, and other resources that have been developed as a result of 
investments by public, private, nonprofit, and academic organizations. 
This Library of PCOR Resources includes PCOR findings and evidence-
based tools that have appeared in the published literature, as well as 
studies and projects that are in progress.
    The information in this web-based library is intended to assist 
researchers who may be conducting new studies, as well as clinicians, 
policymakers, consumers, and others who are seeking access to evidence-
based health information. Each resource provided in the library 
provides a summary and access to information on PCOR studies and 
related syntheses and translations.
    Through this Request for Information (RFI), AHRQ is seeking 
feedback about the Library of PCOR Resources and the materials that can 
be accessed there to gauge how well the Library and those materials 
meet the needs of potential users in the general public.

DATES: Submission deadline on or before June 11, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Electronic responses are preferred and should be sent to: 
[email protected]. Non-electronic responses will also be 
accepted. Please mail responses to: Gail Makulowich, Office of 
Communications, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 5600 
Fishers Lane, 07N104B, Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gail Makulowich, Office of 
Communications, [email protected], 301-427-1711.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the Agency for Healthcare 
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is to produce evidence to make health care 
safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and 
to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 
with other public and private partners to make sure that the evidence 
is understood and used. The Agency strives to meet this mission by 
investing in research and generating needed evidence that supports 
disseminating tested practices, creating materials to teach and train 
health care systems and professionals to catalyze improvements in care, 
and developing measures and data used to track and improve performance. 
To learn more about the Agency, visit AHRQ.gov.
    AHRQ is providing this Library of PCOR Resources in response to the 
2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Title VI, Section 937. 
This Act mandates that AHRQ, in consultation with the National 
Institutes of Health (NIH), disseminate findings published by the 
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and other 
Government-funded entities that sponsor research on comparative 
clinical effectiveness. AHRQ will disseminate these findings to 
physicians, health care providers, patients, vendors of health 
information technology focused on decision support, appropriate 
professional associations, and Federal and private health plans.
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act directs AHRQ to 
``develop a publicly available resource database.'' However, to ensure 
that AHRQ is providing the most up-to-date information and making the 
best use of resources, AHRQ is providing direct links to relevant PCOR 
resources.

Submission Instructions

    Specific questions of interest to AHRQ include, but are not limited 
to:
     What was your first impression of the Library of PCOR 
Resources?
     What do you like the most?
     What do you like the least?
     How can AHRQ improve these pages?
     Is there anything missing on these pages?
     Overall, how easy is it to find what you need on these 
pages?
     Are the materials available through the Library of PCOR 
Resources useful?
    AHRQ will use the information it receives to assess the layout, 
design, and content of the Library of Resources and will revise the 
pages, as needed, based on the feedback provided by the general public.

Francis D. Chesley, Jr.,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-10090 Filed 5-10-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4160-90-P