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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Data collection activity 

Number of 

respondents 

per year 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Total ................................................................................................... 33 1 1 33 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Data collection activity Number of 

respondents 

Total burden 

hours 

Average hourly wage rate Total cost 

burden 

In-depth Interviews with external stakeholders: 

• Acute Care Hospital Settings ................................................................ 9 9 $34.33* $309.00 

• Ambulatory Surgical Centers ................................................................ 8 8 34.33* 275.00 

• ESRD facilities ...................................................................................... 8 8 34.33* 275.00 

• Long Term Care Settings ..................................................................... 8 8 34.33* 275.00 

Total ................................................................................................... 33 na na 1,134.00 

* Based upon May 2012 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates for Epidemiologists, retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/oes/

current/oes_nat.htm#19-0000 on February 20, 2014. 

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: April 9, 2014. 

Richard Kronick, 

Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2), 

announcement is made of an Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality 

(AHRQ) Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) 

meeting on ‘‘AHRQ RFA–HS14–007, 

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 

(PCOR) for Deliberative Approaches: 

Patient and Consumer Input for 

Implementing Evidence-Based Health 

Care (R21)’’. Each SEP meeting will 

commence in open session before 

closing to the public for the duration of 

the meeting. 

DATES: May 15–16, 2014 (Open on May 

15 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and 

closed for the remainder of the meeting). 

ADDRESSES: Gaithersburg Marriott 

Washingtonian Center, 9751 

Washingtonian Boulevard, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20878. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of 

members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting 

should contact: 

Mrs. Bonnie Campbell, 

Committee Management Officer, 

Office of Extramural Research, 

Education and Priority Populations, 

AHRQ, 

540 Gaither Road, Room 2038, 

Rockville, Maryland 20850, 

Telephone: (301) 427–1554. 

Agenda items for this meeting are 

subject to change as priorities dictate. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Special 

Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in 

fields related to health care research 

who are invited by the Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality 

(AHRQ), and agree to be available, to 

conduct on an as needed basis, 

scientific reviews of applications for 

AHRQ support. Individual members of 

the Panel do not attend regularlyscheduled meetings and do not serve for 

fixed terms or a long period of time. 

Rather, they are asked to participate in 

particular review meetings which 

require their type of expertise. 

Each SEP meeting will commence in 

open session before closing to the public 

for the duration of the meeting. The SEP 

meeting referenced above will be closed 

to the public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in 5 U.S.C. App. 2, 

section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for 

the ‘‘AHRQ RFA–HS14–007, PatientCentered Outcomes Research (PCOR) for 

Deliberative Approaches: Patient and 

Consumer Input for Implementing 

Evidence-Based Health Care (R21)’’ are 

to be reviewed and discussed at this 

meeting. The grant applications and the 

discussions could disclose confidential 

trade secrets or commercial property 

such as patentable material, and 

personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Dated: April 9, 2014. 

Richard Kronick, 

AHRQ Director. 

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