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site-information/privacy-policy. 

Josephine Liu, 

Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11944 Filed 6–2–22; 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 ‘‘Child 

Hospital Consumer Assessment of 

Healthcare Providers and Systems 

(Child HCAHPS) Survey Database.’’ 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by August 2, 2022. 

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 

emails at doris.lefkowitz@

AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of 

Healthcare Providers and Systems 

(Child HCAHPS) Survey Database 

The Child Hospital CAHPS Survey 

(Child HCAHPS) assesses the 

experiences of pediatric patients (less 

than 18 years old) and their parents or 

guardians with inpatient care. It 

complements the Adult Hospital 

CAHPS Survey (Adult HCAHPS), which 

asks adult inpatients about their 

experiences. The Child HCAHPS 

Database is a voluntary database 

available to all Child HCAHPS users to 

support both quality improvement and 

research to enhance the patientcenteredness of care delivered to 

pediatric hospital patients. 

Rationale for the information 

collection. Like the survey instrument 

itself and related toolkit materials to 

support survey implementation, 

aggregated Child HCAHPS Database 

results are made publicly available on 

AHRQ’s CAHPS website. Technical 

assistance is provided by AHRQ through 

its contractor at no charge to hospitals 

to facilitate the access and use of these 

materials for quality improvement and 

research. Technical assistance is also 

provided to support Child HCAHPS 

data submission. 

The Child HCAHPS Database 

supports AHRQ’s goals of promoting 

improvements in the quality and 

patient-centeredness of health care in 

pediatric hospital settings. This research 

has the following goals: 

1. Improve care provided by 

individual hospitals and hospital 

systems. 

2. Offer several products and services, 

including providing survey results 

presented through an Online Reporting 

System, summary chartbooks, custom 

analyses, private reports and data for 

research purposes. 

3. Provides information to help 

identify strengths and areas with 

potential for improvement in patient 

care. 

Survey data from the Child HCAHPS 

Database will be used to produce three 

types of reporting products: 

• Hospital Feedback Reports. 

Hospitals that submit data will have 

access to a customized report that 

presents findings for their individual 

submission along with results from the 

database overall. These ‘‘private’’ 

hospital feedback reports will display 

sortable results for each of the Child 

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for each individual survey item that 

forms the composite measure. 

• Child HCAHPS Chartbook. A 

summary-level Chartbook will be 

compiled to display top box and other 

proportional scores for the Child 

HCAHPS items and composite measures 

broken out by selected hospital 

characteristics (e.g., region, hospital 

size, ownership and affiliation, etc.). 

• AHRQ Data Tools website. 

Aggregate results also will be made 

publicly available through an 

interactive, web-based system that 

allows users to view survey items and 

composite results in a variety of formats. 

The OMB Control Number for the 

Child HCAHPS Survey Database is 

0935–0243, which was last approved by 

OMB on July 24, 2019, and will expire 

on July 30, 2022. 

This study is being conducted by 

AHRQ through its contractor, Westat, 

pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority 

to conduct and support research on 

health care 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 health surveys and 

database development. 42 U.S.C. 

299a(a)(1), (2), and (8). 

Method of Collection 

To achieve the goals of this project, 

the following activities and data 

collections that constitute information 

collection under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act will be implemented: 

• Registration with the submission 

website to obtain an account with a 

secure username and password. The 

point-of-contact (POC), often the 

hospital, completes a number of data 

submission steps and forms, beginning 

with the completion of the online 

registration form. The purpose of this 

form is to collect basic contact 

information about the organization and 

initiate the registration process; 

• Submission of signed Data Use 

Agreements (DUAs) and survey 

questionnaires. The purpose of the data 

use agreement, completed by the 

participating hospital, is to state how 

data submitted by or on behalf of 

hospitals will be used and provides 

confidentiality assurances; 

• Submission of hospital information 

form. The purpose of this form 

completed by the participating 

organization, is to collect background 

characteristics of the hospital; and 

• Follow-up with submitters in the 

event of a rejected file, to assist in 

making corrections and resubmitting the 

file. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated burden 

hours for the respondent to participate 

in the database. The 302 POCs in 

Exhibit 1 are a combination of an 

estimated 300 hospitals that currently 

administer the Child HCAHPS survey 

and the two survey vendors assisting 

them. 

Each hospital will register online for 

submission. The online Registration 

form will require about 5 minutes to 

complete. Each submitter will also 

complete a hospital information form. 

The online hospital information form 

takes on average 5 minutes to complete. 

The DUA will be completed by each of 

the 300 participating hospitals. Survey 

vendors do not sign or submit DUAs. 

The DUA requires about 3 minutes to 

sign and upload to the online 

submission system. Each submitter, 

which in most cases will be the survey 

vendor performing the data collection, 

will provide a copy of their 

questionnaire and the survey data file in 

the required file format. Survey data 

files must conform to the data file layout 

specifications provided by the Child 

HCAHPS Database. Since the unit of 

analysis is at the hospital level, 

submitters will upload one data file per 

hospital. Once a data file is uploaded, 

the file will be automatically checked to 

ensure it conforms to the specifications 

and a data file status report will be 

produced and made available to the 

submitter. Submitters will review each 

report and will be expected to correct 

any errors in their data file and resubmit 

if necessary. It will take about one hour 

to submit the data for each hospital. The 

total burden is estimated to be 365 

hours annually. 

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name 

Number of 

respondents/ 

POCs 

Number of 

responses per 

POC 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Registration Form ............................................................................................ 300 1 5/60 25 

Hospital Information Form ............................................................................... 300 1 5/60 25 

Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... 300 1 3/60 15 

Data Files Submission ..................................................................................... 2 150 1 300 

Total .......................................................................................................... NA NA NA 365 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden based on the 

respondents’ time to complete one 

submission process. The cost burden is 

estimated to be $18,076 annually. 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Total 

burden hours 

Average 

hourly wage 

rate * 

Total 

cost burden 

Registration Form ............................................................................................ 300 25 57.12 a $1,428 

Hospital Information Form ............................................................................... 300 25 57.12 a 1,428 

Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... 300 15 95.12 b 1,426 

Data Files Submission ..................................................................................... 2 300 45.98 c 13,794 

Total .......................................................................................................... 302 ** 365 NA 18,076 

* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2020, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’ 


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(a) Based on the mean hourly wage for Medical and Health Services Managers (11–9111). 

(b) Based on the mean hourly wage for Chief Executives (11–1011). 

(c) Based on the mean hourly wages for Computer Programmer (15–1131). 

** The 300 POC listed for the registration form, hospital information form and the data use agreement are the estimated POC’s from the estimated participating hospitals. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, 

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’s 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 27, 2022. 

Marquita Cullom, 

Associate Director. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11883 Filed 6–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Meeting for Software Developers on 

the Common Formats for Patient 

Safety Data Collection 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: AHRQ coordinates the 

development of sets of standardized 

definitions and formats (Common 

Formats) that make it possible to collect, 

aggregate, and analyze uniformly 

structured information about health care 

quality and patient safety for local, 

regional, and national learning. The 

Common Formats include technical 

specifications to facilitate the collection 

of electronically comparable data by 

Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) and 

other entities. Additional information 

about the Common Formats can be 

obtained through AHRQ’s PSO website 

at https://pso.ahrq.gov/common-formats 

and the PSO Privacy Protection Center’s 

website at https://www.psoppc.org/ 

psoppc_web/publicpages/ 

commonFormatsOverview. The purpose 

of this notice is to announce a meeting 

to discuss implementation of the 

Common Formats with software 

developers and other interested parties. 

This meeting is designed as an 

interactive forum where software 

developers can provide input on use of 

the formats. AHRQ especially requests 

participation by and input from those 

entities which have used AHRQ’s 

technical specifications and 

implemented, or plan to implement, the 

Common Formats electronically. 

DATES: The meeting will be held from 

2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, 

June 30th, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Hamid Jalal, Medical Officer, Center for 

Quality Improvement and Patient 

Safety, AHRQ, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857; Telephone (toll 

free): (866) 403–3697; Telephone (local): 

(301) 427–1111; TTY (toll free): (866) 

438–7231; TTY (local): (301) 427–1130; 

Email: pso@ahrq.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Patient Safety and Quality 

Improvement Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C. 

299b–21 to 299b–26 (Patient Safety Act), 

and the related Patient Safety and 

Quality Improvement Final Rule, 42 

CFR part 3 (Patient Safety Rule), 

published in the Federal Register on 

November 21, 2008, 73 FR 70731– 

70814, provide for the Federal listing of 

Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), 

which collect, aggregate, and analyze 

confidential information (patient safety 

work product) regarding the quality and 

safety of health care delivery. 

The Patient Safety Act requires PSOs, 

to the extent practical and appropriate, 

to collect patient safety work product 

from providers in a standardized 

manner that permits valid comparisons 

of similar cases among similar 

providers. (42 U.S.C. 299b–24(b)(1)(F)). 

The Patient Safety Act also authorizes 

the development of data standards, 

known as the Common Formats, to 

facilitate the aggregation and analysis of 

non-identifiable patient safety data 

collected by PSOs and reported to the 

network of patient safety databases 

(NPSD). (42 U.S.C. 299b–23(b)). The 

Patient Safety Act and Patient Safety 

Rule can be accessed at: http://

www.pso.ahrq.gov/legislation/. 

AHRQ has issued Common Formats 

for Event Reporting (CFER) for three 

settings of care—hospitals, nursing 

homes, and community pharmacies. As 

part of the agency’s efforts to improve 

diagnostic safety and quality in 

healthcare, AHRQ is in the process of 

developing Common Formats for Event 

Reporting—Diagnostic Safety (CFER– 

DS). 

Federally listed PSOs can meet the 

requirement to collect patient safety 

work product in a standardized manner 

to the extent practical and appropriate 

by using AHRQ’s Common Formats. The 

Common Formats are also available in 

the public domain to encourage their 

widespread adoption. An entity does 

not need to be listed as a PSO or 

working with one to use the Common 

Formats. However, the Federal privilege 

and confidentiality protections only 

apply to information developed as 

patient safety work product by 

providers and PSOs working under the 

Patient Safety Act. 

Agenda, Registration, and Other 

Information About the Meeting 

AHRQ will be hosting this fully 

virtual meeting to discuss 

implementation of the Common Formats 

with members of the public, including 

software developers and other interested 

parties. Agenda topics will include a 

presentation by the PSO Privacy 

Protection Center on ways to submit 

data, an update on the CFER–DS, and 

discussion of the data element for 

location/setting of patient safety events, 

including use of the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention’s National 

Healthcare Safety Network location 

codes. Active participation and 

discussion by meeting participants is 

encouraged. Time will be allocated to 

engage meeting participants and foster 

active discussion. 

AHRQ requests that interested 

persons send an email to SDMeetings@

infinityconferences.com for registration 

information. Before the meeting, an 

agenda and logistical information will 

be provided to registrants. 


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