Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and

Recommendations

In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on

proposed data collection projects, the Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed

projects. To request more information on the proposed project, call the

HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection 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 on respondents,

including through the use of automated collection techniques or other

forms of information technology.

Proposed Projects

1. Study of Physicians' Educational Preparation for Practice in

Managed Care Settings--New--A mail survey will be conducted of primary

care physicians and medical directors in managed care organizations to

assess their views of the adequacy of their preparation for practice in

that setting. The survey of physicians will be limited to those who

graduated between 1986 and 1990. The information will be used by the

Bureau of Health Professions to formulate recommendations for

curriculum changes. Because this is a mail survey, automated collection

techniques will not be used. Burden estimates are as follows:

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No. of responses Avg. burden/response(in

No. of respondents per respondent hours)

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Physicians................................... 1800 1 .25

Medical directors............................ 200 1 .25

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2. Study of the Dissemination of the Maternal and Child Assistance

Programs Model Application Form--New--A telephone survey will be

conducted of (1) governor's offices in 59 states and territories, (2)

the leadership of state-level maternal and child assistance programs in

59 states and territories, and (3) the leadership of local maternal and

child assistance programs in 10 carefully selected jurisdictions across

the country. The survey will provide data on the effectiveness of the

federal dissemination of the maternal and child assistance programs

Model Application Form, and on the use and impact of the Model

Application Form or other similar consolidated application forms on

maternal and child assistance programs and clients. The data collected

will inform Members of Congress, which mandated the development and

dissemination of the Model Application Form, and state and federal

maternal and child assistance program leaders about the effectiveness

of the federal dissemination process, the extent of Model Application

Form and other consolidated application form implementation, and their

impact on agency operations and program clients. Because this is a

targeted telephone survey with limited numbers, automated collection

techniques will not be used. Burden estimates are as follows:

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No. of responses Avg. burden/response(in

No. of respondents per respondent hours)

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Governors office............................. 59 1 .5

State level officials........................ 236 1 .5

Local level officials........................ 50 1 .5

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3. Evaluation of Special Projects of National Significance:

Adolescent Focussed Grantees--Under the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS

Resources Emergency Act of 1990, Special Projects of National

Significance are supported to evaluate and disseminate innovative

models of care. In order to fulfill the evaluation requirements of the

Act, grantees collect, on an ongoing basis, information on numbers of

clients served, characteristics of those clients, services provided,

and outcomes of those services. The information will be used to

identify models of care with promise for national replication and

dissemination. Most data are collected by care providers who complete

very brief (one page or less) forms to document each client contact,

and some data will be collected directly from volunteering care

recipients. Burden estimates follow:

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No. of responses Avg. burden/response (in

No. of respondents per respondent hours)

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Care providers (nurses, case managers, 232 407 2.4 hours (2.8 minutes per

counselors). form).

Care recipients........................... 495 1 1 hour.

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[[Page 31488]] 4. Evaluation of the Interdisciplinary Generalist

Curriculum--New--The Interdisciplinary Generalist Curriculum (IGC)

Project awards funds to Schools of Medicine that change their curricula

to include preclinical generalist primary care training directed toward

influencing medical students to select primary care medical careers.

The evaluation of this project will include two surveys. A survey of

faculty members of the schools funded by this project will assess the

faculty attitudes and beliefs about the innovations in the curriculum

one year after the project began and three years after the project

began. The funded schools were selected through a request for proposal

(RFP) process. All 141 allopathic and osteopathic Schools of Medicine

received the RFP. The second survey will be sent to the Deans of these

schools. This RFP survey will assess the extent to which the RFP

process itself generated changes in curricula.

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No. of responses Avg burden/response(in

No. of Respondents per respondent hours)

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Faculty survey............................... 3104 2 .25

RFP Survey................................... 141 1 .50

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5. Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Facility and Equipment

Survey--New--Under the Capital Improvement Program, the Bureau of

Primary Health Care provides additional funds to grantees supported

under the BPHC primary health care delivery programs for renovations,

repair, modernization or construction/replacement of health care

facilities to correct fire and life-safety hazards and overcrowding

conditions. In order to understand the nature and extent of such

problems, the BPHC is planning to conduct a mail survey of all grantee

facilities to collect information on their facility and equipment

problems and on estimated costs to correct the problems. The

information will be used to set program priorities and to target

technical assistance to grantees in greatest need.

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No. of responses Avg. burden/ response (in

No. of respondents per respondent hours)

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Grantee facilities........................... 1880 1 .6

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Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer,

Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Dated: June 12, 1995.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 95-14723 Filed 6-14-95; 8:45 am]

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