[Federal Register: October 18, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 200)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-04-040W]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 498-1210 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human
Resources and Housing Branch, New Executive Office Building, Room
10235, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Written
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
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Proposed Project
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)--New--National Center for
Infectious Disease (NCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
OMB first approved the information collection now known as the
``National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System'' (OMB
No.0920-0012) in 1970; it approved the ``National Surveillance System
for Healthcare Workers(NaSH)'' (OMB 0920-0417) in 1997, and the
``Surveillance for Bloodstream and Vascular Access Infections in
Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers'' (OMB No. 0920-0442) in 1999. These
three data collections have been modified and are being merged to
create the NHSN. The NHSN will evolve with the addition of modules and
participating healthcare institutions from a wide spectrum of settings.
The NHSN is a knowledge system for accumulating, exchanging, and
integrating relevant information and resources among private and public
stakeholders to support local and national efforts to protect patients
and to promote healthcare safety. Specifically, the data will be used
to determine the magnitude of various healthcare-associated adverse
events and trends in the rates of these events among patients and
healthcare workers with similar risks. They will be used to detect
changes in the epidemiology of adverse events resulting from new and
current medical therapies and changing risks.
Healthcare institutions that participate in NHSN voluntarily report
their data to the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in the
National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention through the National Electronic Disease
Surveillance System that uses a web browser-based technology for data
entry and data management. Data are collected by trained surveillance
personnel using written standardized protocols. The table below shows
the estimated annual burden in hours to collect and report data. The
total burden hours are 65,817.
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No. of Burden per
Title No. of responses/ response (in
respondents respondent hrs.)
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Facility Contact Information.................................... 350 1 10/60
Patient Safety Component Facility Characteristics............... 350 1 30/60
Agreement To Participate and Consent............................ 350 1 15/60
Group Contact Information....................................... 350 1 5/60
Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan........................... 350 9 25/60
Healthcare Personnel Safety Reporting Plan...................... 90 2 10/60
Patient Data*................................................... .............. .............. ..............
Primary Bloodstream Infection (BSI)**........................... 200 36 25/60
Pneumonia (PNEU)................................................ 200 72 25/60
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)................................... 200 27 25/60
Surgical Site Infection (SSI)................................... 200 27 25/60
Dialysis Incident (DI).......................................... 80 90 12/60
Custom Event (not reported to CDC).............................. .............. .............. ..............
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)--Microbiology Laboratory 20 45 3
Data**.........................................................
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)--Pharmacy Data**......... 20 36 2
Denominators for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Other Locations (Not 245 18 5
NICU or SCA)...................................................
Denominators for Specialty Care Area (SCA)...................... 75 9 5
Denominators for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)............ 100 9 4
Denominators for Procedure...................................... 200 540 5/60
Dialysis Log Form (Not reported to CDC)......................... .............. .............. ..............
Denominators for Outpatient Dialysis............................ 80 9 5/60
Patient Safety Component--Hemodialysis Center Practices Survey.. 80 1 1
List of Blood Isolates+......................................... 350 1 1
Manual Categorization of Positive Blood Cultures+............... 350 1 1
Exposures to Blood/Body Fluids.................................. 90 42 1
Healthcare Personnel Post Exposure Prophylaxis.................. 90 6 15/60
Healthcare Personnel Demographic Data........................... 90 42 10/60
Healthcare Personnel Vaccination History........................ 90 42 15/60
Annual Facility Survey.......................................... 90 1 5.5
Implementation of Engineering Controls.......................... 90 1 30/60
Healthcare Personnel Survey..................................... 90 10 10/60
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* Data on Patient Data Form are entered as part of an adverse event (AE), so the burden of these data are
included under each AE form's burden estimate.
** Burden will be eliminated when reporting these data once an HHSN institution implements electronic data
capture.
+ Burden during Validation phase only, then eliminated.
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Dated: October 12, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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