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Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Thu, Mar 11 2010 11:00:00 GMT

This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``Development and Evaluation of AIIRQ's Quality Indicators Improvement Toolkit.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 35013520, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.

This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on December 31st, 2009 and allowed 60 days for public comment. One comment was received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment.

Request for Measures of Patient Experiences of Cancer Care

Thu, Mar 4 2010 11:00:00 GMT

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (Nd), is soliciting voluntary submission of survey instruments and items, which ask adult survey respondents to assess the care delivered by cancer care providers. AHRQ is seeking these items and measures from researchers, survey firms, cancer care providers, patient advocacy groups, individual cancer patients, and other stakeholders who are interested in the development of survey measures of patient experiences of cancer care. To be as inclusive as possible, AHRQ is requesting such instruments and individual items, along with any available documentation of their validity and reliability and descriptions of survey methods for using them.

Organizations can submit items for use in either or both of the two related initiatives to develop measures of the experience with cancer care. The first initiative will focus on identifying items and survey instruments that can be used by AHRQ as cand

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Mon, Feb 1 2010 11:00:00 GMT

This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``Evaluation of the GuideLines Into Decision Support (GLIDES).'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.

This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on November 27th, 2009 and allowed 60 days for public comment. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment.

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Mon, Feb 1 2010 11:00:00 GMT

This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``Studying the Implementation of a Chronic Care Toolkit and Practice Coaching In Practices Serving Vulnerable Populations.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 35013520, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Mon, Jan 25 2010 11:00:00 GMT

This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``Collection of Information for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Health Plan Survey Comparative Database.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 35013520, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection.

HHS Intent To Publish Grant and Contract Solicitations for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Projects With

Thu, Jan 7 2010 11:00:00 GMT

The Department of Health and Human Services announces its intention to support new CER projects with funds allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA appropriated $400 million to the Office of the Secretary for support of CER. AHRQ has been designated point of contact for management of these funds.

Prioritization of the OS ARRA CER allocation was determined by several factors: public input, the Comparative Effectiveness Research Coordination Implementation Team, the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (FCC), and the Institute of Medicine Report on CER. OS ARRA CER projects will focus, initially, on either (1) one of the 14 priority conditions established by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under Section 1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, (2) 100 Institute of Medicine topic recommendations, or (3) topics that fall into one of the AHRQ identified evidence ga