Pulling and re-filing Patient Records (ED, OPD, and ASL)

ATTACHMENT O: Pulling and Refiling Records

National Hospital Care Survey

OMB No. 0920-0212

Exp. Date: XX/XX/XXXX

Assurance of confidentiality – All information which would permit identification of an individual, a practice, or an establishment will be held confidential, will be used for statistical purposes only by NCHS staff, contractors, and agents only when required and

with necessary controls, and will not be disclosed or released to other persons without the consent of the individual or establishment in accordance with section 308(d) of the

Public Health Service Act (42 USC 242m) and the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (PL-107-347).

Notice – Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average

1 minute per response, including time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data

sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the

collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not

required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a current valid OMB

control number. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of

this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing burden to: CDC/ATSDR

Information Collection Review Office, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA 30333,

ATTN: PRA (0920-0212).

For hospitals that are not reporting remotely, staff will have to pull and re-file medical records at a burden of 1 minute per Patient Record form. The total number of records staff are expected to pull in these hospitals is 100,000 (50,000 ED, 35,000 OPD, and 15,000 ASL). One medical record clerk from each of the 1,125 ambulatory units in the hospital will have to pull and re-file an expected average of 100 records. At an average of 1 minute per record, the total annual burden to medical record clerks is 1,875 hours.