This request is for the revision of an approved data collection (OMB No. 0920-0278), the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), for the purpose of collecting data for the years 2010, 2011, and 2012 and for the expanding the data collection to free-standing ambulatory surgery centers (FS-ASCs). The NHAMCS is a national survey of patient visits to emergency and outpatient departments and hospital-based ambulatory surgery centers of general and short stay hospitals. We propose to revise NHAMCS in 2010 for the purpose of collecting data from free-standing ambulatory surgery centers which formerly was collected as part of a separate approved survey, the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS) (OMB 0920-0334). We propose, in this package, to add the collection of data from free-standing ambulatory surgery centers to NHAMCS in 2010. In addition, this package requests approval for minor changes to the NHAMCS forms to allow for data collection from FS-ASCs and to update the forms for the emergency and outpatient departments based on past performance. We also seek approval to continue collection of the NHAMCS Cervical Cancer Screening Supplement, which has been collected since 2006.
US Code:
42 USC 306
Name of Law: Public Health Service Act
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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