Notice2022-11883
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Published
June 3, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Abstract
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."
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 107 (Friday, June 3, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33792-33794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11883]
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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.
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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
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#89ede6fbe0faa7e5ecefe2e6fee0fdf3c9c8c1dbd8a7e1e1faa7eee6ff"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d59524f544e1351585b56524a5449477d7c756f6c1355554e135a524b">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f3979c819a80dd9f9695989c849a8789b3b2bba1a2dd9b9b80dd949c85"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d19120f140e5311181b16120a1409073d3c352f2c5315150e531a120b">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 patient-centeredness 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:
<bullet> 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 HCAHPS core composite measures and
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for each individual survey item that forms the composite measure.
<bullet> 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.).
<bullet> 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:
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> Submission of hospital information form. The purpose of
this form completed by the participating organization, is to collect
background characteristics of the hospital; and
<bullet> 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
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Number of Number of
Form name respondents/ responses per Hours per Total burden
POCs POC response hours
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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
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Total....................................... NA NA NA 365
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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
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Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate * burden
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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
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Total....................................... 302 ** 365 NA 18,076
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* 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]
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