Notice2022-23334
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Published
October 26, 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) re-approve the proposed information collection project "The Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR) Platform". This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on August 12, 2022 and allowed 60 days for public comment. AHRQ did not receive substantive comments during public review period. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64795-64797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23334]
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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) re-approve the proposed information
collection project ``The Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR)
Platform''. This proposed information collection was previously
published in the Federal Register on August 12, 2022 and allowed 60
days for public comment. AHRQ did not receive substantive comments
during public review period. The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by November 25, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#385c574a514b16545d5e53574f514c427879706a691650504b165f574e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="395d564b504a17555c5f52564e504d437978716b681751514a175e564f">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
``The Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR) Platform''
Since 1997, the AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program
has been reviewing relevant scientific information on a wide spectrum
of clinical and health services topics to produce various types of
evidence reports. A majority of these evidence reports are systematic
reviews (SRs), which are used as evidence bases for clinical practice
guidelines, research agendas, healthcare coverage, and other health
related policies. Performing SRs is costly in time, labor, and money.
Moreover, there is an increasing expectation of quicker turnaround in
producing SRs to accommodate the fast moving pace of innovations and
new scientific discoveries in healthcare. Some SRs overlap or are
duplicated; independent teams of SR producers often extract data from
the same studies, resulting in replication of work. Current methodology
makes it difficult to harness and reuse previous work when updating
SRs.
In an effort to reduce the economic burden of conducting SRs, the
EPC program undertook development of a collaborative, Web-based
repository of systematic review data called the Systematic Review Data
Repository (SRDR). The OMB Control Number for this data collection is
0935-0244, which was last approved by OMB on October 16, 2019.
This resource serves as both an archive and data extraction tool,
shared among organizations and individuals producing SRs worldwide,
enabling the creation of a central database of SR data. This database
is collaboratively vetted, freely accessible, and integrates seamlessly
with reviewers' existing workflows, with the ultimate goal of
facilitating the efficient generation and update of evidence reviews,
and thus speeding and improving evidence-based policy-making with
regards to health care.
Note that the SRDR system was upgraded during the last period of
OMB clearance and is now designated as SRDR+. We will use the term
``SRDR platform'' to collectively denote the
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various upgraded iterations of the platform.
The SRDR project aims to achieve the following goals:
(1) Create online easy-to-use Web-based tools for conducting
systematic reviews to facilitate extraction of data from primary
studies;
(2) Develop an open-access searchable archive of key questions
addressed in systematic reviews;
(3) Maintain a public repository of primary study data including
provision of technical support for repository users; and
(4) Develop a process for making summary data from systematic
reviews digitally shareable to end-users.
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor, Brown
University, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and
support research on healthcare and on systems for the delivery of such
care, including activities with respect to the quality, effectiveness,
efficiency, appropriateness and value of healthcare services, including
database development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project the following data collections
are being implemented:
(1) Collect registration information on SRs from SR producers who
will populate the SRDR platform.
The SRDR platform now uses a two-tiered categorization of users,
and collection of registration data will depend on the type of user.
``Contributors'' are SR producers who use the SRDR platform as a tool
to support production of the SR and share scientific data from their
SRs. Registration data will be collected from these users. ``General
public'' users only view scientific data publicly available in the SRDR
platform. No data will be collected from these users. The
``Commentator'' category of users that were referenced in the last OMB
clearance period has been eliminated in the updated system since no
users have signed up to be commentators. All Contributors undergo a
simple self-registration process by providing a password and an email
address. Provision of username and institution information by
registrants is now optional in the updated system. Collection of
registration data from Contributors is required due to the technical
nature of using the SRDR platform both as a database and a tool for
assisting in the production of a SR, including providing comments in
the various sections of a particular project on the SRDR platform. In
addition, provision of an email address and institution information
allows the administrators of the SRDR platform to confirm that requests
are being made by actual people and not potentially malicious software
code such as bots and other cybersecurity threats.
User registration will be used for administrative purposes only
including communication between SRDR platform administrators and
registrant users. This type of information will not be made publicly
available.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate/use the SRDR platform. In 2020, 1,029
users registered as Contributors. Registration will take approximately
1.5 minutes or 0.025 hours per user. We thus calculate the total burden
hours required for registration for all users annually is 25.73 hours.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Registration of users as Contributors........... 1,029 1 0.025 25.73
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Total....................................... 1,029 .............. .............. 25.73
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost burden associated with the
respondents' time to participate/use the SRDR platform. The total cost
burden to respondents is estimated at an average of $1,126.97 annually.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Average
Form name Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate * burden
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Registration of users as Commentators or 1,029 25.73 \a\ $43.80 $1,126.97
Contributors...................................
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Total....................................... 1,029 25.73 .............. 1,126.97
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2021, ``U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.'' Available at: <a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm</a>.
\a\ Based on the mean wages for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, 29-0000.
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
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proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: October 21, 2022.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2022-23334 Filed 10-25-22; 8:45 am]
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