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healthcare events, related infections in 

the community, and antimicrobial 

resistance; communicates the results 

and findings of response activities with 

federal and state agencies in order to 

alert healthcare providers and educate 

the public to prevent similar adverse 

events in the future; (2) strategically 

supports local, state, national, and 

international efforts to prevent 

healthcare-associated infections, related 

infections in the community, 

antimicrobial resistance, and related 

adverse events or medical errors using 

evidence-based recommendations and 

effective health communications 

strategies that enhance rapid and 

reliable information dissemination and 

exchange; (3) develops and/or evaluates 

the effectiveness of both experimental 

and applied interventions to prevent 

healthcare-associated infections, related 

infections in the community, 

antimicrobial resistance, blood-borne 

virus transmission, and related adverse 

events or medical errors across the 

spectrum of healthcare delivery sites; (4) 

provides epidemiology support to 

laboratory branch for investigation and 

study of both recognized and emerging 

bacterial healthcare pathogens and 

related community pathogens, including 

antimicrobial resistant forms of these 

pathogens; (5) develops, promotes, and 

monitors implementation of guidelines/ 

recommendations, and other proven 

interventions to prevent healthcareassociated infections, related infections 

in the community, blood-borne virus 

transmission, antimicrobial resistance, 

medical errors, and occupational 

infections/exposures among healthcare 

personnel; (6) develops and/or evaluates 

the effectiveness of both experimental 

and applied interventions to promote 

healthcare worker safety; (7) develops, 

promotes, and monitors implementation 

of interventions to prevent transmission 

of healthcare-associated HIV infections 

and conducts case investigations of 

occupational HIV infections; (8) 

conducts research, including applied 

epidemiologic and clinical, to prevent 

healthcare-associated infections and 

antimicrobial resistant infections; (9) 

provides expert consultation, guidance, 

and technical support to other branches 

in the division, across the agency, to 

domestic and international partners, 

and the U.S. public on the epidemiology 

and prevention of healthcare-associated 

infections, related community 

infections, antimicrobial resistance, and 

exposures/injuries among healthcare 

personnel; and (10) provides 

epidemiology support to clinical and 

environmental microbiology branch to 

identify new strategies to prevent 

adverse events due to infections 

associated with indwelling medical 

devices, contaminated products, 

dialysis, and water. 

Surveillance Branch (CVKDD). (1) 

Monitors and evaluates on the national 

level the extent, distribution, and 

impact of healthcare-associated 

infections, antimicrobial use and 

resistance, adverse drug events, 

healthcare worker safety events, and 

adherence to clinical processes and 

intervention programs designed to 

prevent or control adverse exposures or 

outcomes in healthcare; (2) provides 

leadership and consultative services for 

statistical methods and analysis to 

investigators in the Branch, Division, 

and other organizations responsible for 

surveillance, research studies, and 

prevention and control of healthcareassociated infections and other 

healthcare-associated adverse events; (3) 

improves methods and enables wider 

use of clinical performance 

measurements by healthcare facilities 

and public health entities for specific 

interventions and prevention strategies 

designed to safeguard patients and 

healthcare workers from risk exposures 

and adverse outcomes through 

collaborations with extramural partners; 

(4) collaborates with public and private 

sector partners to further standardize, 

integrate, and streamline systems by 

which healthcare organizations collect, 

manage, analyze, report, and respond to 

data on clinical guideline adherence, 

healthcare-associated infections, 

including transmission of multi-drugresistant organisms and other 

healthcare-associated adverse events; (5) 

coordinates, further develops, enables 

wider use, and maintains the NHSN, (a 

web-based system for healthcare 

facilities throughout the U.S. to collect 

and analyze their own data and share 

data with DHQP and other organizations 

on healthcare-associated adverse events 

and process-of-care measures) to obtain 

scientifically valid clinical performance 

indices and benchmarks that promote 

healthcare quality and value at the 

facility, state, and national levels; (6) 

conducts applied research to identify 

and develop innovative methods to 

detect and monitor healthcareassociated infections and antimicrobial 

resistance; (7) conducts special studies 

and provides national estimates of 

targeted, healthcare-associated adverse 

events, antimicrobial use and resistance 

patterns, and the extent to which 

prevention and control safeguards are in 

use to protect at-risk patients across the 

spectrum of healthcare delivery sites; 

and (8) uses NHSN and other data 

sources to conduct special studies and 

provide national estimates of targeted 

occupational illnesses and injuries 

among healthcare workers and the 

extent to which preventive safeguards 

are in use across the spectrum of 

healthcare delivery sites. 

Dated: December 13, 2007. 

William H. Gimson, 

Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 07–6130 Filed 12–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–18–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: National Survey of Child and 

Adolescent Well-Being-Second Cohort 

(NSCAW II). 

OMB No.: 0970–0202. 

Description: The Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) 

intends to collect data on a new sample 

of children and families for the National 

Survey of Child and Adolescent WellBeing (NSCAW). The NSCAW was 

authorized under Section 427 of the 

Personal Responsibility and Work 

Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 

1996. The original survey began in 

November 1999 with a national sample 

of 5,501 children, ages 0–14, who had 

been the subject of investigation by 

Child Protective Services during the 

baseline data collection period, which 

extended from November 1999 through 

April 2000. Direct assessments and 

interviews were conducted with the 

children themselves, their primary 

caregivers, their caseworkers, and, for 

school-aged children, their teachers; 

agency directors also were interviewed 

at baseline. Follow-up data collections 

were conducted 12 months, 18 months, 

and 36 months post-baseline, and a fifth 

data collection is currently under way. 

The NSCAW is the only source of 

nationally representative, firsthand 

information about the functioning and 

well-being, service needs, and service 

utilization of children and families who 

come to the attention of the child 

welfare system. Information is collected 

about children’s cognitive, social, 

emotional, behavioral, and adaptive 

functioning, as well as family and 

community factors that are likely to 

influence their functioning. Family 

service needs and service utilization 

also are addressed in the data collection. 

The current data collection plan calls 

for selecting a new cohort of 5,700 


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children and families and repeating the 

data collection procedures used in the 

original study. Selection of a new cohort 

will allow the comparison of 

characteristics of children who are 

entering the child welfare system today 

with those who entered prior to the 

implementation of the Adoption and 

Safe Families Act and prior to the 

advent of the Child and Family Services 

Review process. The data collection will 

follow the same format as that used in 

previous rounds of data collection, and 

will employ, with only modest 

revisions, the same instruments that 

have been used in previous rounds. 

Currently, HHS intends to collect 

baseline data and one follow-up 18 

months later, with future follow-up 

rounds contingent on funding 

availability. Data from NSCAW are 

made available to the research 

community though licensing 

arrangements from the National Data 

Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at 

Cornell University. 

Respondents: 5,700 children and their 

associated permanent or foster 

caregivers, caseworkers, and teachers; in 

addition, an administrator will be 

interviewed in each location from 

which children are sampled. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Child Interview ............................................................................................... 5,700 1 1 .2 6,840 

Permanent Caregiver Interview ..................................................................... 3,800 1 2 .0 7,600 

Foster Caregiver Interview ............................................................................ 1,990 1 1 .5 2,985 

Caseworker Interview .................................................................................... 5,700 1 1 .0 5,700 

Teacher Questionnaire .................................................................................. 3,000 1 .75 2,250 

Agency Questionnaire ................................................................................... 97 1 1 .0 97 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: .................................................. ........................ ........................ .......................... 25,472 

Additional Information 

Copies of the proposed collection may 

be obtained by writing to the 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Administration, 

Office of Information Services, 370 

L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, 

DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance 

Officer. All requests should be 

identified by the title of the information 

collection. E-mail address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

OMB Comment 

OMB is required to make a decision 

concerning the collection of information 

between 30 and 60 days after 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. Therefore, a comment 

is best assured of having its full effect 

if OMB receives it within 30 days of 

publication. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

directly to the following: Office of 

Management and Budget, Paperwork 

Reduction Project, FAX: 202–395–6974, 

Attn: Desk Officer for ACF. 

Dated: December 17, 2007. 

Brendan Kelly, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–6143 Filed 12–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Compassion Capital Fund 

Impact Evaluation Process Study. 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: The information 

collection activity proposed under this 

notice will obtain information about 

intermediary grantee agencies providing 

capacity building assistance to faithbased and community organizations 

under the Compassion Capital Fund 

(CCF) Demonstration program. The 

information gathered under this data 

collection activity will be used to 

describe the approach and methods 

used by intermediaries to provide the 

services that are being evaluated in the 

CCF impact evaluation. Information 

collection will be through informal 

discussions and observations on-site at 

the organizations, using uniform 

protocols. 

Respondents: Directors and staff 

providing technical assistance and 

related services to faith-based and 

community organizations and directors 

and staff in faith-based and community 

organizations that have received 

capacity building assistance. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden 

hours per 

response 

Total 

burden hours 

Intermediary Protocol for Executive Director ................................................... 10 1 3 30 

Intermediary Protocol for Key Staff ................................................................. 30 1 1 30 

Faith-based or Community Organization Protocol for Executive Director ...... 30 1 2 60 

Faith-based or Community Organization Protocol for Key Staff ..................... 60 1 1 60 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 180. 

Additional Information: 

Copies of the proposed collection may 

be obtained by writing to the 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Administration, 

Office of Information Services, 370 

L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, 

DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance 

Officer. All requests should be 


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