Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Management and Organizational Practices Survey-Hospitals (MOPS-HP)
| Published date | 19 November 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 73673 |
| Record Number | 2020-25580 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Census Bureau,Commerce Department |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 224 (Thursday, November 19, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 224 (Thursday, November 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73673-73674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-25580]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Management and Organizational Practices Survey--Hospitals
(MOPS-HP)
AGENCY: Census Bureau, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 60 days of public
comment on a proposed new information collection, the Management and
Organizational Practices Survey--Hospitals (MOPS-HP). An information
collection request (ICR) for the MOPS-HP was submitted to OMB for
approval on July 7, 2020 and is currently pending OMB review.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received on or before January 19, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by
email to [email protected]. Please reference Management and
Organizational Practices Survey--Hospitals (MOPS-HP) in the subject
line of your comments. You may also submit comments, identified by
Docket Number USBC-2020-0029, to the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov. All comments received are part of the
public record. No comments will be posted to http://www.regulations.gov
for public viewing until after the comment period has closed. Comments
will generally be posted without change. All Personally Identifiable
Information (for example, name and address) voluntarily submitted by
the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.
You may submit attachments to electronic comments in Microsoft Word,
Excel, or Adobe PDF file formats.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection activities should be directed
to Edward Watkins at [email protected] or 301-763-4750.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The U.S. Census Bureau plans to conduct the Management and
Organizational Practices Survey-Hospitals (MOPS-HP) for survey year
2020 as a joint project with Harvard Business School. The MOPS-HP will
utilize a subset of the Service Annual Survey mail-out sample and will
collect data on management practices from Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs)
at general medical and surgical hospitals to assist in studying their
relationship to clinical and financial performance.
A notice seeking public comment on our plans to conduct this survey
was previously published in the Federal Register on February 12, 2020,
on pages 4623-4624. That notice proposed collecting data for survey
years 2019 and 2014, but collection has been adjusted due to the
ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has further highlighted the
relevance of hospital management practices, especially as they relate
to hospitals' abilities to respond to shocks to their organization and
the health care system. In light of this, the Census Bureau has
modified the survey proposal to collect data for reference years 2020
and 2019. This change seeks to directly measure management practices
and protocols before and during the pandemic to obtain a better
understanding of how hospitals have had to adjust and pivot operations
during this public health emergency.
The Census Bureau also plans to include two additional questions in
the MOPS-HP content to help improve measurement of hospital
preparedness. These questions will provide information on two elements
of responsiveness, hospitals' coordinated deployment of frontline
clinical workers and hospitals' ability to quickly respond to needed
changes in standardized clinical protocols. In an effort to limit
respondent burden while adding this content, adjustments were made to
keep the total number of questions and estimated burden per response
unchanged. The project plan, schedule, and collection strategy are
being actively monitored, and adjustments will be made as necessary, as
the Census Bureau is cognizant and respectful of the time, resources,
and burden placed on CNOs during the pandemic.
After the close of this second comment period, the Census Bureau
will submit these planned changes as an amendment to the ICR, which is
currently pending review at OMB. Any comments received by the close of
the comment period will be summarized and included in the amendment.
Currently, no official statistics on management practices in
hospitals exist. Past research shows these practices are related to
health care providers' clinical and financial outcomes. This suggests
that providing measures on management practices may potentially help
the United States health care system, which is challenged by rising
health care costs, increased demand from an aging society, and quality
objectives. These data would permit users to examine relationships
between management practices and financial outcomes using Census Bureau
data (e.g., revenues) and relationships with clinical outcomes using
external data sources. Additionally, these data would provide hospital
administrators and managers information to evaluate their practices in
comparison to other hospitals at an aggregate level.
The MOPS-HP content was proposed by external researchers with past
experience in surveying hospitals on management practices. Some
questions are adapted from the Management and Organizational Practices
Survey (MOPS), conducted in the manufacturing sector, allowing for
inter-sectoral comparisons. Content for the MOPS-HP includes
performance monitoring, financial and clinical targets, and incentives.
The 39 questions are grouped into the following sections: Tenure,
Management Practices, Management Training, Management of Team
Interactions, Staffing and Allocation of Human Resources, Standardized
Clinical Protocols, Documentation of Patients' Medical Records, and
Organizational Characteristics.
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II. Method of Collection
The MOPS-HP sample will consist of approximately 3,200 hospital
locations for enterprises classified under General Medical and Surgical
Hospitals (NAICS 6221) and sampled in the Service Annual Survey (SAS).
The survey will be mailed separately from the 2020 SAS and collected
electronically through the Census Bureau's Centurion online reporting
system. Respondents will be sent an initial letter with instructions
detailing how to log into the instrument and report their information.
These letters will be addressed to the location's CNO. In instances
where the CNO is not identifiable, the letter will be addressed to the
hospital's administrative office with attention to the CNO. Collection
is scheduled to begin in the initial months of 2021.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
Form Number(s): MP-2000.
Type of Review: Regular submission, New Information Collection
Request.
Affected Public: General medical and surgical hospitals.
Estimated Number of Respondents: Approximately 3,200.
Estimated Time per Response: 45 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,400.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0. (This is not the cost of
respondents' time, but the indirect costs respondents may incur for
such things as purchases of specialized software or hardware needed to
report, or expenditures for accounting or records maintenance services
required specifically by the collection.)
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131 and 182.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau
to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is
necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether
the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy
of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed
collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden
on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include, or summarize, each comment in our
request to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address,
phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information
in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly
available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-25580 Filed 11-18-20; 8:45 am]
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