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Dated: May 14, 2013. 

Margaret M. Shanks, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2013–11772 Filed 5–14–13; 11:15 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Blood and Tissue Safety and 

Availability 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services, Office of the Secretary, 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Health. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services is hereby giving notice that the 

Advisory Committee on Blood and 

Tissue Safety and Availability 

(ACBTSA) will hold a meeting. The 

meeting will be open to the public. 

DATES: The meeting will take place 

Wednesday, June 5 from 8:00 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. and Thursday, June 6, 2013, 

from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Fishers Lane Conference 

Center, Terrace Level, 5635 Fishers 

Lane, Rockville, MD, 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

James Berger, Designated Federal 

Officer, ACBTSA, and Senior Advisor 

for Blood and Tissue Safety Policy, 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Health, Department of Health and 

Human Services, 1101 Wootton 

Parkway, Suite 250, Rockville, MD, 

20852. Phone: (240) 453–8803; Fax (240) 

453–8456; Email ACBTSA@hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

ACBTSA shall provide advice to the 

Secretary through the Assistant 

Secretary for Health. The Committee 

advises on a range of policy issues to 

include: (1) Identification of public 

health issues through surveillance of 

blood, and tissue safety issues with 

national biovigilance data tools; (2) 

identification of public health issues 

that effect availability of blood, blood 

products, and tissues; (3) broad public 

health, ethical and legal issues related to 

the safety of blood, blood products, and 

tissues; (4) the impact of various 

economic factors (e.g., product cost and 

supply) on safety and availability of 

blood, blood products, and tissues; (5) 

risk communications related to blood 

transfusion and tissue transplantation; 

and (6) identification of infectious 

disease transmission issues for blood, 

organs, blood stem cells and tissues. 

The Advisory Committee has met 

regularly since its establishment in 

1997. 

At the June 2013 meeting, the 

ACBTSA will hear updates on recent 

activities of the Department and its 

agencies in support of previous 

Committee recommendations. 

In the past, the Committee has heard 

and made recommendations regarding 

policy implications related to emerging 

research developments involving blood 

and tissue products available for use 

during public health emergencies. The 

Committee noted that a nationally 

coordinated system to manage tissue 

supplies and distributions during a 

disaster does not exist. Past 

recommendations made by the ACBTSA 

may be viewed at www.hhs.gov/ 

bloodsafety. 

The focus of the meeting will be to 

address whether the current blood 

center system in the United States is 

designed for optimal service delivery in 

the era of health care reform. In 

particular, the Committee hopes to 

address the services currently 

performed by blood centers that are 

essential to the U.S. health care system, 

how anticipated changes in health care 

may affect blood centers and the 

provision of services, as well as how the 

field of transfusion medicine will be 

defined in the next decade. 

The public will have the opportunity 

to present their views to the Committee 

during a public comment session 

scheduled for June 6, 2013. Comments 

will be limited to five minutes per 

speaker and must be pertinent to the 

discussion. Pre-registration is required 

for participation in the public comment 

session. Any member of the public who 

would like to participate in this session 

is encouraged to contact the Designated 

Federal Officer at his/her earliest 

convenience to register for time (limited 

to 5 minutes) and registration must be 

prior to close of business on June 3, 

2013. If it is not possible to provide 30 

copies of the material to be distributed, 

then individuals are requested to 

provide a minimum of one (1) copy of 

the document(s) to be distributed prior 

to the close of business on June 3, 2013. 

It is also requested that any member of 

the public who wishes to provide 

comments to the Committee utilizing 

electronic data projection to submit the 

necessary material to the Designated 

Federal Officer prior to the close of 

business on June 3, 2013. 

Dated: May 9, 2013. 

James J. Berger, 

Designated Federal Official, ACBTSA and 

Senior Advisor for Blood and Tissue Safety 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2013–11582 Filed 5–15–13; 8:45 am] 

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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. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: 

‘‘Collection of Information for Agency 

for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 

(AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture Comparative Database.’’ 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521, 

AHRQ invites the public to comment on 

this proposed information collection. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by July 15, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Collection of Information for Agency 

for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 

(AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture Comparative Database. 

Request for information collection 

approval. The Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) requests 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) reapprove, under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

AHRQ’s collection of information for 

the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture (Hospital SOPS) 

Comparative Database; OMB NO. 0935– 


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0162, last approved on May 5th, 2010. 

The Hospital SOPS Comparative 

Database consists of data from the 

AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture. Hospitals in the U.S. are 

asked to voluntarily submit data from 

the survey to AHRQ. The database was 

developed by AHRQ in 2006 in 

response to requests from hospitals 

interested in knowing how their patient 

safety culture survey results compare to 

those of other hospitals in their efforts 

to improve patient safety. 

Background on the Hospital SOPS. In 

1999, the Institute of Medicine called 

for health care organizations to develop 

a ‘‘culture of safety’’ such that their 

workforce and processes focus on 

improving the reliability and safety of 

care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is 

Human: Building a Safer Health 

System). To respond to the need for 

tools to assess patient safety culture in 

health care, AHRQ developed and pilot 

tested the Hospital Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture with OMB approval 

(OMB NO. 0935–0115; Approved 2/4/ 

2003). The survey was designed to 

enable hospitals to assess staff opinions 

about patient safety issues, medical 

error, and error reporting and includes 

42 items that measure 12 dimensions of 

patient safety culture. AHRQ released 

the survey to the public along with a 

Survey User’s Guide and other toolkit 

materials in November 2004 on the 

AHRQ Web site. Since its release, the 

survey has been voluntarily used by 

hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. 

Rationale for the information 

collection. The Hospital SOPS survey 

and the Hospital SOPS Comparative 

Database are supported by AHRQ to 

meet its goals of promoting 

improvements in the quality and safety 

of health care in hospital settings. The 

surveys, toolkit materials, and 

comparative database results are all 

made publicly available along with 

technical assistance, provided by AHRQ 

through its contractor at no charge to 

hospitals, to facilitate the use of these 

materials for hospital patient safety and 

quality improvement. 

This study is being conducted by 

AHRQ through its contractor, Westat, 

pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority 

to conduct and support research on 

healthcare and on systems for the 

delivery of such care, including 

activities with respect to: the quality, 

effectiveness, efficiency, 

appropriateness and value of healthcare 

services; quality measurement and 

improvement; and database 

development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2), 

and (a)(8). 

Method of Collection 

All information collection for the 

Hospital SOPS Comparative Database is 

done electronically, except the Data Use 

Agreement (DUA) that hospitals sign in 

hard copy and fax or mail back. 

Registration, submission of hospital 

information, and data upload is handled 

online through a secure Web site. 

Delivery of confidential hospital survey 

feedback reports is also done 

electronically by having submitters 

enter a username and password and 

downloading their reports from a secure 

Web site. 

Survey data from the AHRQ Hospital 

Survey on Patient Safety Culture is used 

to produce three types of products: (1) 

An annual Hospital SOPS Comparative 

Database Report that is made publicly 

available in the public domain; (2) 

Individual Hospital Survey Feedback 

Reports that are confidential, 

customized reports produced for each 

hospital that submits data to the 

database; and (3) Research data sets of 

individual-level and hospital-level deidentified data to enable researchers to 

conduct analyses. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Hospitals administer the AHRQ 

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety 

Culture every 20 months on average. 

Therefore, the number of hospital 

submissions to the database varies 

because hospitals do not submit data 

every year. Data submission is typically 

handled by one point-of-contact (POC) 

who is either a hospital patient safety 

manager or a survey vendor. The POC 

completes a number of data submission 

steps and forms, beginning with 

completion of an online Eligibility and 

Registration Form. The POCs typically 

submit data on behalf of 3 hospitals, on 

average, because many hospitals are part 

of a multi-hospital system that is 

submitting data, or the POC is a vendor 

that is submitting data for multiple 

hospitals. Exhibits 1 and 2 are based on 

an estimated 304 individual POCs who 

will complete the database submission 

steps and forms in the coming years, not 

based on the number of ‘‘hospitals.’’ The 

Hospital Information Form is completed 

by all POCs for each of their hospitals. 

The total annual burden hours are 

estimated to be 1,793. 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden based on the 

respondents’ time to submit their data. 

The cost burden is estimated to be 

$91,297 annually. 

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name 

Number of 

respondents/ 

POCs 

Number of 

responses per 

POC 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Eligibility/Registration Form and Data Submission .......................................... 304 1 5.6 1,702 

Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... 304 1 3/60 15 

Hospital Information Form ............................................................................... 304 3 5/60 76 

Total .......................................................................................................... 912 NA NA 1,793 

*The Eligibility and Registration Form requires 3 minutes to complete; however about 5.5 hours is required to prepare/plan for the data submission. This includes the amount of time POCs and other hospital staff (CEO, lawyer, database administrator) typically spend deciding whether to 

participate in the database and preparing their materials and data set for submission to the database, and performing the submission. 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Form name 

Number of 

respondents/ 

POCs 

Total burden 

hours 

Average hourly wage rate* Total cost 

burden 

Eligibility/Registration Form and Data Submission .......................................... 304 1,702 $50.95 $86,717 

Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... 304 15 50.33 755 

Hospital Information Form ............................................................................... 304 76 50.33 3,825 


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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN—Continued 

Form name 

Number of 

respondents/ 

POCs 

Total burden 

hours 

Average hourly wage rate* Total cost 

burden 

Total .......................................................................................................... 912 1,793 NA 91,297 

*Wage rates were calculated using the mean hourly wage based on occupational employment and wage estimates from the Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May 2012 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates NAICS 622000—Hospitals, located 

at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_622000.htm. Wage rate of $50.33 is based on the mean hourly wages for Medical and Health Services 

Managers (11–9111). Wage rate of $50.95 is the weighted mean hourly wage for: Medical and Health Services Managers (11–9111; $50.33 × 

2.6 hours = $130.86), Lawyers (23–1011; $72.71 × 0.5 hours 436.36), Chief Executives (11–1011($95.36 (0.5 hours = $47.68), and Database 

Administrators (15–1141; $35.20 × 2 hours = $70.40) [Weighted mean = ($130.86 + 36.36 + 47.68 + 70.40)/5.6 hours = $285.3015.6 hours = 

$50.95/hour]. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s 

information collection are requested 

with regard to any of the following: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of AHRQ health care 

research and health care information 

dissemination functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including 

hours and costs) of the proposed 

collection(s) of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information upon the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the Agency’s subsequent 

request for OMB approval of the 

proposed information collection. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated: May 7, 2013. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

AHRQ Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–13–13SL] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 

comments to Ron Otten, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS D–74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

CDC Work@Health Program: Phase 1 

Needs Assessment and Pilot Training 

Evaluation—New—National Center for 

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 

Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

In the United States, chronic diseases 

such as heart disease, obesity and 

diabetes are among the leading causes of 

death and disability. Although chronic 

diseases are among the most common 

and costly health problems, they are 

also among the most preventable. 

Adopting healthy behaviors—such as 

eating nutritious foods, being physically 

active and avoiding tobacco use—can 

prevent the devastating effects and 

reduce the rates of these diseases. 

Employers are recognizing the role 

they can play in creating healthy work 

environments and providing employees 

with opportunities to make healthy 

lifestyle choices. To support these 

efforts, the Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC) plans to offer a 

comprehensive workplace health 

training program called Work@Health. 

The Work@Health Program is 

authorized by the Public Health Service 

Act and funded through the Prevention 

and Public Health Fund of the Patient 

Protection and Affordable Care Act 

(ACA). The Work@Health curriculum 

will be based on a problem-solving 

approach to improving employer 

knowledge and skills related to 

effective, science-based workplace 

health programs, and supporting the 

adoption of these programs in the 

workplace. Topics to be covered in the 

Work@Health curriculum include 

principles, strategies, and tools for 

leadership engagement; how to make a 

business case for workplace health 

programs; how to assess the needs of 

organizations and individual 

employees; how to plan, implement, 

and evaluate sustainable workplace 

health programs; and how to partner 

with community organizations for 

additional support. 

The Work@Health Program will be 

implemented in two phases. In Phase 1, 

CDC will conduct an employer needs 

assessment, develop training models, 

and conduct pilot training and 

evaluation with approximately 72 

employers and other organizations. In 

Phase 2, CDC will transition to full-scale 

program implementation and evaluation 

involving approximately 600 employers 

and other organizations. 

CDC is requesting OMB approval to 

initiate Phase 1 information collection 

in summer 2013. A one-time Training 

Needs Assessment Survey will be 

administered electronically to 200 

employers representing small, mid-size, 

and large businesses from various 

industry sectors and geographic locales. 

The needs assessment survey will allow 

CDC to assess employer preferences 

with respect to curriculum content, the 

types of support materials needed by 

employers and the appropriate level of 

detail for these materials, and the best 

approaches for providing technical 

assistance to employers. The estimated 


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