Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; The Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database

AGENCY:

Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS

ACTION:

Notice

SUMMARY:

In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period.

DATES:

Comments on this ICR should be received no later than September 29, 2016.

ADDRESSES:

Submit your comments, including the ICR Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

To request a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Information Collection Request Title: The Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database OMB No. 0915-0310—Revision.

Abstract: The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, Public Law (P.L.) 109-129, as amended by the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2015, P.L. 114-104 (the Act), provides for the collection and maintenance of human blood stem cells for the treatment of patients and research. HRSA's Healthcare Systems Bureau established the Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database. Operation of this database necessitates certain record keeping and reporting requirements to perform the functions related to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation under contract to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Act requires the Secretary to contract for the establishment and maintenance of information related to patients who received stem cell therapeutic products and to do so using a standardized, electronic format. Data is collected from transplant centers by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and is used for ongoing analysis of transplant outcomes. Post-Transplant Essential Data (TED) forms are being revised in this submission. The portion of the Product Form related to confirmation of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing has minor changes to the identification and date fields to allow this form to more flexibly capture HLA typing data for expanding indications of cellular therapy. The Pre-TED form remains unchanged from the previously approved OMB submission.

The increase in burden is due to an increase in the annual number of transplants and increasing survivorship after transplantation.

Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA uses the information to carry out its statutory responsibilities. Information is needed to monitor the clinical status of transplantation and provide the Secretary of HHS with an annual report of transplant center specific survival data.

Likely Respondents: Transplant Centers.

Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the information requested. This includes (1) the time needed to review instructions; (2) to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying information; (3) processing and maintaining information; (4) disclosing and providing information; (5) training personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; (6) searching data sources; (7) completing and reviewing the collection of information; and (8) transmitting or otherwise disclosing the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table below.