[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 126 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40097-40098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16435]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-44-00]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Projects

    1. National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey--(0920-0234)--Revision--
(NCHS)--The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) was 
conducted annually from 1973 to 1981, again in 1985, and resumed as an 
annual survey in 1989. It is directed by the Division of Health Care 
Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention. The purpose of NAMCS 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 NAMCS target 
population consists of all office visits within the United States made 
by ambulatory patients to non-Federal, office-based physicians 
(excluding those in the specialties of anesthesiology, radiology, and 
pathology) who are engaged in direct patient care. Since more than 80 
percent of all direct ambulatory medical care visits occur in 
physicians' offices, the NAMCS provides data on the majority of 
ambulatory medical care services. To complement these data, in 1992 
NCHS initiated the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 
(NHAMCS, OMB No. 0920-0278) to provide data concerning patient visits 
to hospital outpatient and emergency departments. The NAMCS, together 
with the NHAMCS, constitute the ambulatory component of the National 
Health Care Survey (NHCS) and will provide coverage of more than 90 
percent of ambulatory medical care.
    The NAMCS provides a range of baseline data on the characteristics 
of the users and providers of ambulatory medical care. Data collected 
include the patients' demographic characteristics and reason(s) for 
visit, and the physicians' diagnosis(es) and diagnostic services, 
medications and disposition. These data, together with trend data, may 
be used to monitor the effects of change in the health care system, 
provide new insights into ambulatory medical care, and stimulate 
further research on the use, organization, and delivery of ambulatory 
care.
    Users of NAMCS data include, but are not limited to, congressional 
and other federal government agencies such as NIH and FDA, state and 
local governments, medical schools, schools of public health, colleges 
and universities, private businesses, nonprofit foundations and 
corporations, professional associations, as well as individual 
practitioners, researchers, administrators and health planners. Uses 
vary from the inclusion of a few selected statistics in a large 
research effort, to an in-depth analysis of the entire NAMCS data set 
covering several years.
    To calculate the burden hours, the number of respondents for NAMCS 
is based on a sample of 6,000 physicians with a 50 percent 
participation rate (this includes physicians who are out-of-scope as 
well as those who refuse). The total annualized burden is estimated to 
be 11,225 hours.

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                                                                      No. of        Avg. burden
                   Respondents                        No. of        responses/     per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Induction--eligible.............................           4,500               1           20/60           1,500
Induction--ineligible...........................           1,500               1            5/60             125
Patient Record..................................           4,500              30            4/60           9,000

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Nonresponse Studies.............................             600               1           60/60             600
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          11,225
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    Dated: June 23, 2000.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-16435 Filed 6-28-00; 8:45 am]
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