Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request: Information Collection Request Title: Hospital Campaign for Organ Donation Scorecard, OMB No. 0915-0373, Revision
| Published date | 02 July 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 31602 |
| Record Number | 2019-14078 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Health Resources And Services Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31602-31603]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14078]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request: Information Collection Request Title: Hospital
Campaign for Organ Donation Scorecard, OMB No. 0915-0373, Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act
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of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received
no later than September 3, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call Lisa Wright-
Solomon, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301)
443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Hospital Campaign for Organ
Donation Scorecard OMB No. 0915-0373, Revision.
Abstract: HRSA's Hospital Campaign for Organ Donation enlists
healthcare organizations nationwide to increase the number of
registered organ, eye, and tissue donors by hosting education and donor
registration events in their facilities and communities. A scorecard
identifies activities that participants can implement and assigns
points to each activity. Participants that earn a certain number of
points annually are recognized by HRSA and the campaign's national
partners.
For this information collection request, the proposed change to the
Scorecard is the addition of the 2020 date. HRSA also intends to create
a new electronic version of the Scorecard for future campaigns that
will ultimately reduce the level of burden for participants. The
electronic version will be designed to be user friendly, will take less
time to complete, and will provide HRSA with data throughout the
campaign rather than once a year. Another benefit of an electronic
scorecard is that it will eliminate the possibility of human error as
information will no longer be manually entered into a database.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: There is a substantial
imbalance in the U.S. between the number of people whose lives depends
on organ transplants (currently more than 113,000) and the annual
number of organ donors (approximately 14,000 living and deceased
donors). This imbalance results in about 7,300 waiting list deaths
annually. In response to the need for increased donation, HRSA conducts
public outreach initiatives to encourage the American public to enroll
on state donor registries as future organ donors.
The Scorecard motivates and facilitates healthcare organizations'
participation in the campaign, provides the basis for rewarding
participants for their accomplishments, and enables HRSA to measure and
evaluate campaign process and outcome. The scorecard also enables HRSA
to make data-based decisions and improvements for subsequent campaigns.
Likely Respondents: The likely respondents include the following:
Hospital development and public relations staff of organ procurement
and other donation organizations; hospital staff such as nurses or
public relations/communications professionals and staff members; staff
at physician's offices, health clinics, and emergency medical services;
or volunteers that work with healthcare organizations on organ donation
initiatives.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Activity Scorecard (online)..... 1,400 1 1,400 .25 350
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Total....................... 1,400 .............. 1,400 .............. 350
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HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2019-14078 Filed 7-1-19; 8:45 am]
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