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 Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [30Day-08-0278]
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                     Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice. Proposed Project National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey [OMB No. 0920-0278]—Revision—National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Background and Brief Description The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) has been conducted annually since 1992. The purpose of NHAMCS is to meet the needs and demands for statistical information about the provision of ambulatory medical care services in the United States. Ambulatory services are rendered in a wide variety of settings, including physicians' offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments. The target of the NHAMCS to date has been in-person visits made to outpatient departments (OPDs) and emergency departments (EDs) of non-Federal, short stay hospitals (hospitals with an average length of stay of less than 30 days) or those whose specialty is general (medical or surgical) or children's general. This revision is to transfer data gathering from the previously conducted National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS) (OMB No. 0920-0334) to NHAMCS. After the 1994-1996 NSAS, funds were not available to gather this important, and much sought after, data until 2006. Due to a lack of funds it has not been possible to conduct an independent NSAS since that time and so, for 2009, NCHS proposes to begin the expansion of NHAMCS data gathering to include hospital-based ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). Beginning in 2010, NCHS plans to seek OMB approval to expand NHAMCS to also include free-standing ASCs. The objective of this new collection will be to collect data about ambulatory surgery centers, the patients they serve, and the services they deliver. It will remain the principal source of data on ambulatory surgery center services in the United States. It has been the benchmark against which special programmatic data sources are compared. NHAMCS ASC data that will be collected include patient characteristics, diagnoses, surgical and nonsurgical procedures, provider and type of anesthesia, time in and out of surgery and postoperative care, and discharge disposition. Users of NHAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional offices, Federal agencies, state and local governments, schools of public health, colleges and universities, private industry, nonprofit foundations, professional associations, clinicians, researchers, administrators, and health planners. There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized burden hours are 9,186. 
                    ( print page 45012) Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
Type of respondent
Form name
Number of
                             respondents
Number of 
                             responses per respondent
Average 
                             burden per  
                             response  
                             (in hours)Hospital Chief Medical Officer
Hospital Induction (NHAMCS-101)
470
1
55/60Ancillary Service Executive
Ambulatory Unit Induction (NHAMCS-101/U)
845
2
1Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical Record Clerk
ED Patient Record form NHAMCS-100 (ED)]
220
100
7/60Medical Record Clerk
Pulling and re-filing Patient Records
393
132
1/60Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical Record Clerk
OPD Patient Record form [NHAMCS-100 (OPD)]
125
200
6/60Physician/Phys. Asst./Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Midwife
Cervical Cancer Screening Supplement (CCSS) (NHAMCS-906)
250
1
15/60Physician/Registered Nurse/Medical Record Clerk
ASC Patient Record form NHAMCS-100 (ASC)
107
100
6/60
 Dated: July 24, 2008. Maryam I. Daneshvar, Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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