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EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN—Continued
Number of
respondents

Form name

Total
burden hours

Average
hourly wage
rate

Total
cost burden

Diabetes care SAQ ..........................................................................................
Authorization forms for the MEPS–MPC Provider Survey ..............................
Authorization form for the MEPS–MPC Pharmacy Survey .............................
MEPS–HC Validation Interview .......................................................................

2,345
14,489
14,489
4,781

117
3,767
2,246
398

21.74
21.74
21.74
21.74

2,544
81,895
48,828
8,653

Subtotal for the MEPS–HC .......................................................................

79,451

63,907

na

1,389,339

MPC Contact Guide/Screening Call ................................................................
Home care for health care providers questionnaire ........................................
Home care for non-health care providers questionnaire .................................
Office-based providers questionnaire ..............................................................
Separately billing doctors questionnaire ..........................................................
Hospitals questionnaire ...................................................................................
Institutions (non-hospital) questionnaire ..........................................................
Pharmacies questionnaire ...............................................................................

34,000
465
35
10,800
10,800
5,000
100
6,800

1,700
252
19
5,220
1,080
2,708
13
7,922

** 15.59
15.59
15.59
15.59
15.59
15.59
15.59
*** 14.43

26,503
3,929
296
81,380
16,837
42,218
203
114,314

Subtotal for the MEPS–MPC ....................................................................

68,000

18,347

na

285,680

Grand Total .......................................................................................

147,451

82,254

na

1,675,019

MEPS–MPC

* Mean hourly wage for All Occupations (00–0000).
** Mean hourly wage for Medical Secretaries (43–6013)
*** Mean hourly wage for Pharmacy Technicians (29–2052)
Occupational Employment Statistics, May 2011 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates United States, U.S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#b29-0000.

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
Exhibit 3 shows the total and
annualized cost of this information

collection. The cost associated with the
design and data collection of the MEPS–
HC and MEPS–MPC is estimated to be
$51,401,596 in each of the three years

covered by this information collection
request.

EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED COST
Cost component

Annualized
cost

Sampling Activities ...................................................................................................................................................
Interviewer Recruitment and Training .....................................................................................................................
Data Collection Activities .........................................................................................................................................
Data Processing ......................................................................................................................................................
Production of Public Use Data Files .......................................................................................................................
Project Management ................................................................................................................................................

$3,002,731
9,190,168
93,611,428
23,087,605
21,079,118
4,233,739

$1,000,910
3,063,389
31,203,809
7,695,868
7,026,373
1,411,246

Total ..................................................................................................................................................................

154,204,789

51,401,596

Request for Comments

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Total cost

In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s
information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of AHRQ healthcare
research and healthcare information
dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) 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

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collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: September 6, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.

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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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

SUMMARY:

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information collection project: ‘‘CHIPRA
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
Candidate Measure Submission Form.’’
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on April 18th, 2012 and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
Two public comments were received.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by October 22, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by
email at
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer).
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Proposed Project
Pediatric Quality Measures Program
Section 401(a) of the Children’s
Health Insurance Program
Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA),
Public Law 111–3, amended the Social
Security Act (‘‘the Act’’) to enact section
1139A (42 U.S.C. 1320b–9a). Section
1139A(b) charged the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) with
improving pediatric health care quality
measures. Since CHIPRA was passed,
AHRQ and the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) have been
working together to implement selected
provisions of the legislation related to
children’s health care quality. An initial
core measure set for voluntary use by
Medicaid and Children’s Health
Insurance Programs (CHIP) was posted
December 29, 2009 (http://
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2009-12-29/
html/E9–30802.htm). In February 2011,
CMS released a State Health Official
letter which outlined the initial core
measure set and how these measures
should be reported to CMS. The
Technical Specifications and Resource
Manual for the initial core measure set
for federal fiscal year 2011 reporting is
available at http://www.medicaid.gov/
Medicaid-CHIP-ProgramInformation/ByTopics/Quality-of-Care/Downloads/
InitialCoreSetResouceManual.pdf.

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As required by CHIPRA, by January 1,
2011, AHRQ and CMS established the
CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures
Program (PQMP) in accordance with
section 1139A(b)(1) of the Act to
enhance select children’s health care
quality measures and develop new
measures (http://www.ahrq.gov/chipra).
The PQMP is intended to develop
evidence-based, consensus measures to
improve the initial core set and increase
the portfolio of measures available to
other public and private purchasers of
children’s health care services,
providers, and consumers. HHS
anticipates that measures ultimately
included in the Improved Core Set will
also be used by public and private
purchasers to measure pediatric
healthcare quality. The PQMP consists
of the following:
(1) Seven Centers of Excellence (CoEs)
that are developing and/or enhancing
children’s health care quality measures
through cooperative agreements with
AHRQ in order to increase the portfolio
of measures available to the public and
private purchasers of children’s health
care services, providers and consumers
(http://www.ahrq.gov/chipra/
pqmpfact.htm);
(2) CHIPRA Coordinating and
Technical Assistance Center (CCTAC);
(3) Two CHIPRA quality
demonstration grantees (Illinois, a
partner to the Florida grantee, and
Massachusetts) funded by CMS to
undertake new quality measure
development as part of their grants
http://www.insurekidsnow.gov/
professionals/CHIPRA/grants
summary.html; and
(4) The Subcommittee on Children’s
Healthcare Quality Measures of the
AHRQ National Advisory Council on
Healthcare Research and Quality
(SNAC) that will review measures
nominated through a public call for
measures, as well as measures
developed or enhanced by the CoEs, and
make recommendations for an improved
core set of children’s health care quality
measures and other CHIPRA purposes
(http://ahrq.gov/CHIPRA/
qmsnaclist12.htm).
Section 1139A of the Act provides
that improved core sets of children’s
health care quality measures be
identified beginning January 1, 2013,
and annually thereafter, for voluntary
use by state Medicaid and CHIP
programs and other CHIPRA purposes.
AHRQ intends to solicit public
nominations for children’s health care
quality measures using a standard
measure nomination form in early 2013
and 2014. These solicitations will be
undertaken by AHRQ to identify

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children’s health care quality measures
for review by the SNAC.
Section 1139A(b)(2) of the Act
requires that the measures in the
improved core sets shall, at a minimum,
be:
(A) Evidence-based and, where
appropriate, risk adjusted;
(B) Designed to identify and eliminate
racial and ethnic disparities in child
health and the provision of health care;
(C) Designed to ensure that the data
required for such measures is collected
and reported in a standard format that
permits comparison of quality and data
at a State, plan, and provider level;
(D) Periodically updated; and
(E) Responsive to the child health
needs, services, and domains of health
care quality described in clauses (i), (ii),
and (iii) of subsection (a)(6)(A).
Hence, AHRQ, CMS and PQMP
developed a CHIPRA Pediatric Quality
Measures Program (PQMP) Candidate
Measure Submission Form (Attachment
A, hereinafter referred to as ‘‘CHIPRA
PQMP Candidate Measure Submission
Form’’). The CHIPRA PQMP Candidate
Measure Submission Form details the
desirable attributes of measures and
related definitions to provide
operational guidance as specified in
section 1139A(b)(2) of the Act. AHRQ
intends to use this CHIPRA PQMP
Candidate Measure Submission Form to
conduct a public call for measures early
in calendar years 2013 and 2014 to
solicit measures for consideration by the
SNAC for the respective 2014 and 2015
improved core sets of children’s health
care quality measures.
The goals of the CHIPRA PQMP
Candidate Measure Form are to:
(1) Solicit nominations for children’s
health care quality measures in early
2013 and 2014 through public calls for
measures, using a standardized data
collection form;
(2) Use the information provided
through the standardized data collection
form to support SNAC review of
children’s health care quality measures
nominated by the public and measures
developed by the seven CoEs; and
(3) Identify measures for improved
core sets of children’s health care
quality measures and for other CHIPRA
purposes.
The process for review of the
measures developed by the seven COEs
will be the same as that for publicly
nominated measures.
Respondents to these public calls for
measures in 2013 and 2014 are expected
to include pediatricians, researchers,
measure developers, and measure
stewards of children’s health care
quality measures.

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This project is being conducted by
AHRQ pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory
authority under Title IX of the Public
Health Service Act to conduct and
support research to improve health care
quality, and to fulfill a number of
requirements under Title IV of CHIPRA,
including requirements to identify
candidate measures for public posting of
an improved core set of children’s
health care quality measures by January
1, 2014 and January 1, 2015.
Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of this project,
AHRQ intends to solicit submission of
measures from the members of the
public using the CHIPRA PQMP
Candidate Measure Submission Form, a
standardized data collection tool. Data
collection using the CHIPRA PQMP
Candidate Measure Submission Form
will be adequate to achieve the goals of
the project. Below is an outline of the
type of data collected through the
CHIPRA PQMP Candidate Measure
Submission Form and description of the
information solicited from each
nominator pursuant to section
1139A(b)(2) of the Act.
1. Basic measure information
including: measure name, measure
description, measure owner, National
Quality Forum (NQF) identification
number (if applicable; i.e., if the
measure has been endorsed by NQF),
whether part of a measure hierarchy
(e.g., a collection of measures, a measure
set, a measure subset as defined at
http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/
about/hierarchy.aspx), numerator
statement and numerator exclusions (as
appropriate), denominator statement
and denominator exclusions (as
appropriate), and data sources.
2. Detailed measure specifications:
Description of how a measure would be
calculated from appropriate data
sources.
3. Importance of the measure:
Description of how the measure meets
one or more of the following criteria for
importance, citing scientific literature
and providing references: evidence for
general importance of the measure
including potential for quality
improvement and reduction of
disparities in quality; health
importance/prevalence of condition;
health importance/severity and burden
(including impact on children, families
and societies); overall cost burden to
patients, families, public and private
payers, or society more generally
currently and over the life span of the
child; association of measure topic to
children’s current or future health; how
the underlying concept of the measure
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(if at all) across developmental stages;
importance to Medicaid and/or CHIP
program, including the extent to which
the measure is understood to be
sensitive to changes in Medicaid or
CHIP (e.g., policy changes, quality
improvement strategies), relevance to
Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and
Treatment benefit in Medicaid and any
other specific relevance to Medicaid/
CHIP; and description of how the
measure complements or improves on
an existing measure in this topic area for
the child or adult population or if it is
intended to fill a specific gap in an
existing measure category or topic.
4. Measure Categories addressed by
the measure: CHIPRA asks that the
improved core set, taken together, cover
all settings, services, and topics of
health care relevant to children.
Moreover, the legislation requires the
core set to address the needs of children
across all ages including services to
promote healthy birth. Regardless of the
eventual use of the measure, nominators
will need to provide information on all
settings, services, measure topics, and
populations that a measure addresses.
5. Evidence or other justification for
the focus of the measure: The evidence
base for the focus of the measures
included in the January 1, 2014 and
January 1, 2015 improved core sets will
be made explicit and transparent; thus,
it is critical for nominations to specify
the scientific evidence or other basis for
the focus of the measure, including a
brief description of the evidence base or
rationale for the relationship between
the measure and a significant structure,
process, or outcome that influences
children’s health and health care.
6. Scientific soundness of the
measure: Explanation of methods to
determine the scientific soundness of
the measure itself, including results of
all tests of validity and reliability,
including description(s) of the study
sample(s) and methods used to arrive at
the results. Also, information on how
characteristics of the data system/data
sources may affect validity and
reliability of the measure.
7. Identification of disparities:
CHIPRA requires that quality measures
be able to identify disparities by race
and ethnicity, and be responsive to
domains of health care quality such as
socioeconomic status and special health
care needs. Nominations will provide
evidence (if available) from testing of
measures with diverse populations
(considering that diversity may include
race, ethnicity, special health care
needs, socioeconomic status, rural
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to assess measure’s performance for
disparities identification.
8. Feasibility: Description of the
measure’s feasibility, including:
availability of data in existing data
systems; opportunities/pathways for
implementation; extent to which the
measure has been used or is in use (or
has not been used), including settings in
which it has been used; data collection
methods that have been used; eligible
populations and results of testing in the
eligible populations, including an
estimation of the population size
required to gain adequate numbers of
observations for reliable comparisons,
such as estimates of the required
population sizes to gain adequate
numbers for stratification by race,
ethnicity, special health care need, and
socioeconomic status.
9. Levels of aggregation: CHIPRA
states that data used in quality measures
must be collected and reported in a
standard format that permits
comparison (at minimum) at State,
health plan, and provider levels.
Nominations will provide information
on all levels of aggregation at which the
measure is primarily intended to apply
e.g., State (Medicaid and CHIP
populations), health plan, hospital,
practice, provider, patient) and at which
the measure has been tested.
10. Understandability: CHIPRA states
that the core set should allow
purchasers, families, and health care
providers to understand the quality of
care for children. Nominations will
include a description of the usefulness
of the measure to purchasers, families,
and health care providers and present
results from efforts to assess the
understandability of the measure.
11. Health Information Technology:
Nominations will provide information
on health information technology (HIT)
that has been or could be incorporated
into the measure calculation.
12. Limitations of the measure:
Nominations will provide brief
description of any limitations of the
measure related to the attributes
included in the form.
13. Summary Statement: Nominations
will provide a summary rationale for
why the measure should be selected for
use, taking into account a balance
among desirable attributes and
limitations of the measure.
14. Identifying information for the
measure submitter: All nominations
will include contact information for the
measure submitter, including: a) Name,
b) Title, c) Organization, d) Mailing
address, e) Telephone number, and f)
email address. Further, all nominations
will include a written statement
disclosing the proprietary and/or

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confidentiality status of the measure
and full measure specifications, as
described in the Public Disclosure
Requirements. This statement must be
signed by the applicable rights holder(s)
or an individual authorized to act on its
behalf for each submitted measure or
instrument. If signed by an authorized
individual, the statement must describe
the basis for such authorization.
Submitters are encouraged to disclose
the terms under which the measure and
full measure specifications are currently
made available to interested parties—for
example, a standard license and/or
nondisclosure agreement, or a statement
describing the terms thereof. Should
HHS accept the measure for the 2014
and/or 2015 Improved Core Measure
Sets, full measure specifications for the
accepted measure will be subject to
public disclosure (e.g., on the AHRQ
and/or CMS Web sites). In addition,
AHRQ expects that measures and full
measure specifications will be made
reasonably available to all interested
parties.
15. Opportunity to upload
supplementary material: Nominations

will have opportunity to upload
attachments including graphics, tables,
diagrams, and any other supplemental
material. This information supports the
review of the measure.
16. Glossary of Terms: The glossary of
terms details the definitions for key
desirable attributes of measures in the
PQMP Candidate Measure Submission
Form.
The information resulting from this
data collection will be used to: (a)
Improve and strengthen the initial core
set of measures of health care quality
established under CHIPRA (http://
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2009-12-29/
html/E9-30802.htm), (b) expand on
existing pediatric quality measures used
by public and private health care
purchasers, and (c) increase the
portfolio of evidence-based consensus
pediatric quality measures available to
public and private purchasers of
children’s health care services,
providers, and consumers.
All measures nominated by members
of the public will be reviewed by
members of the SNAC using the
categories of desirable attributes

detailed in the CHIPRA PQMP
Candidate Measure Submission Form.
The SNAC will make recommendations
to NAC which in turn will make
recommendations to the AHRQ Director
for consideration of select measures for
inclusion in the public posting of an
improved core set by January 1, 2014
and January 1, 2015 for voluntary use by
Medicaid and CHIP programs and other
CHIPRA purposes.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for members
of the public who will nominate
measures through use of the online
CHIPRA PQMP Candidate Measure
Submission Form. We anticipate a
maximum of 75 nominations each year
with each nomination requiring 3.25
hours. The total burden is estimated to
be 244 hours annually.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden for respondents’
time to complete the online submission
form for the public call for measures.
The total cost burden is estimated to be
$19,195 annually.

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Data collection

Number of
nominations

Number of
responses per
nomination

Hours per
response

Total
burden hours

CHIPRA PQMP Candidate Measure Submission Form ..................................

75

1

3.25

244

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Data collection

Number of
nominations

Total
burden hours

Average
hourly wage
rate*

Total
cost burden

CHIPRA PQMP Candidate Measure Submission Form ..................................

75

244

$78.67

$19,195

* Based upon the mean of the average wages for 29–1065 (Pediatricians, General), $78.67 per hour, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2009, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Although the measure nominations will be
solicited from the general public, AHRQ is using the wage rate for pediatricians since our expectation is that respondents to the 2013 and 2014
public call for measures will primarily be pediatricians who will be measure developers or measure stewards of children’s health care quality
measures.

Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
Exhibit 3 shows the estimated total
and annualized cost over 3 years to the

government for conducting this project.
The total cost is estimated to be
$275,270.

EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED COST

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Cost component

Total cost

Annualized
cost

Project Development ...............................................................................................................................................
Data Collection Activities .........................................................................................................................................
Data Processing and Analysis .................................................................................................................................
Publication of Results ..............................................................................................................................................
Project Management ................................................................................................................................................
Overhead .................................................................................................................................................................

$16,205
46,553
43,190
53,938
22,620
92,764

$5,402
15,518
14,397
17,979
7,540
30,921

Total ..................................................................................................................................................................

275,270

91,757

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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s
information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of AHRQ healthcare
research and healthcare information
dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) 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 upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: September 6, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Notice of Meeting
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with section
10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2),
announcement is made of an Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)
meeting on ‘‘AHRQ Patient Centered
Outcomes Research (PCOR) Pathway to
Independence Award (K99/ROC)’’
DATES: November 1, 2012 (Open on
November 1 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
and closed for the remainder of the
meeting).
ADDRESSES: Hyatt Regency Hotel
Bethesda, One Metro Center, Bethesda,
MD 20814.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of
members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting

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should contact: Mrs. Bonnie Campbell,
Committee Management Officer, Office
of Extramural Research, Education and
Priority Populations, AHRQ, 540
Gaither Road, Room 2038, Rockville,
Maryland 20850, Telephone (301) 427–
1554.
Agenda items for this meeting are
subject to change as priorities dictate.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Special
Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in
fields related to health care research
who are invited by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ), and agree to be available, to
conduct on an as needed basis,
scientific reviews of applications for
AHRQ support. Individual members of
the Panel do not attend regularlyscheduled meetings and do not serve for
fixed terms or a long period of time.
Rather, they are asked to participate in
particular review meetings which
require their type of expertise.
Substantial segments of the SEP
meeting referenced above will be closed
to the public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in 5 U.S.C. App. 2,
section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for
‘‘AHRQ Patient Centered Outcomes
Research (PCOR) Pathway to
Independence Award (K99/R00)’’ are to
be reviewed and discussed at this
meeting. The grant applications and the
discussions could disclose confidential
trade secrets or commercial property
such as patentable material, and
personal information concerning
individuals associated with the grant
applications, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
Dated: September 13, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Notice of Meetings
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of five AHRQ
subcommittee meetings.
AGENCY:

The subcommittees listed
below are part of AHRQ’s Health
Services Research Initial Review Group
Committee. Grant applications are to be
reviewed and discussed at these
meetings. These meetings will be closed

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to the public in accordance with 5
U.S.C. App. 2 section 10(d),’5 U.S.C.
section 552b(c)(4), and 5 U.S.C. section
552b(c)(6).
DATES: See below for dates of meetings:
1. Health Care Research Training
Date: October 11–12, 2012 (Open from
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on October 11
and closed for remainder of the
meeting)
2. Healthcare Effectiveness and
Outcomes Research
Date: October 16–17, 2012 (Open from
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on October 16
and closed for remainder of the
meeting)
3. Health Systems and Value Research
Date: October 24, 2012 (Open from
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on October 24
and closed for remainder of the
meeting)
4. Healthcare Information Technology
Research
Date: October 25, 2012 (Open from
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on October 25
and closed for remainder of the
meeting)
5. Healthcare Safety and Quality
Improvement Research
Date: October 31, 2012 (Open from
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. on October 31
and closed for remainder of the
meeting)
The five meetings will take
place in the same location:
Hyatt Regency Hotel Bethesda,
One Metro Center,
Bethesda, MD 20814.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (To
obtain a roster of members, agenda or
minutes of the non-confidential portions
of the meetings.)
Mrs. Bonnie Campbell, Committee
Management Officer, Office of
Extramural Research Education and
Priority Populations, AHRQ 540,
Gaither Road, Suite 2000, Rockville,
Maryland 20850, Telephone (301)
427–1554.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with section 10 (a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. App. 2), AHRQ announces
meetings of the scientific peer review
groups listed above, which are
subcommittees of AHRQ’s Health
Services Research Initial Review Group
Committee. The subcommittee meetings
will be closed to the public in
accordance with the provisions set forth
in 5 U.S.C. App. 2 section 10(d), 5
U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), and 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(6). The grant applications and
the discussions could disclose
confidential trade secrets or commercial
property such as patentable material,
and personal information concerning
ADDRESSES:

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