Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Federal Register: February 19, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 33)
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; The Atherosclerosis
Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)
Summary: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval the information collection listed below. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal
Register on November 16, 2009, page 58962, and allowed 60 days for public comment. Only one comment was received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The
National Institutes of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Proposed Collection
Title: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC). Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently approved collection (OMB No. 0925-0281). Need and Use of Information Collection:
This project involves annual follow-up by telephone of participants in the ARIC study, review of their medical records, and interviews with doctors and family to identify disease occurrence. Interviewers will contact doctors and hospitals to ascertain participants' cardiovascular events. Information gathered will be used to further describe the risk factors, occurrence rates, and consequences of cardiovascular disease in middle aged and older men and women. Frequency of Response: The participants will be contacted annually. Affected Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for profit; Small businesses or organizations. Type of Respondents: Individuals or households; doctors and staff of hospitals and nursing homes. The annual reporting burden is as follows: Estimated Number of Respondents: 11,992; Estimated
Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.0; Average Burden Hours per
Response: 0.2399; and Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 2,877.4. The annualized cost to respondents is estimated at $54,583, assuming respondents' time at the rate of $17.5
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per hour for family and patient respondents, and $75 per hour for physicians. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are no
Operating or Maintenance Costs to report.
Estimate of Annual Hour Burden
2010-2013
Number of
Frequency of
Average time
Annual hour
Type of response
respondents
response
per response
burden
Participant Follow-up...........................
10,735
1.0
0.2500
2,683.8
Physician or Coroner (for CHD) \1\..............
491
1.0
0.1667
81.8
Physician (for heart failure) \1\...............
190
1.0
0.0833
15.8
Participant's next-of-kin \1\...................
575
1.0
0.1667
95.9
Total.......................................
11,992
1.0
0.2399
2,877.4
\1\ Annual burden is placed on doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and respondent relatives/informants through requests for information which will help in the compilation of the number and nature of new fatal and nonfatal events.
Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the public and affected agencies should address one or more of the following points: (1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the function of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974,
Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and instruments, contact: Dr. Hanyu Ni, NIH, NHLBI, 6701 Rockledge Drive,
MSC 7934, Bethesda, MD 20892-7934, or call non-toll-free number (301) 435-0448 or E-mail your request, including your address to: nihanyu@nhlbi.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days of the date of this publication.
Dated: January 29, 2010.
Suzanne Freeman,
NHLBI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
Michael Lauer,
Director, DCVS, National Institutes of Health.
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