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B -- INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF NEISS HOSPITALS SOL CPSC-P-00-1168 DUE 071000 POC Joyce Lawn, Contract Specialist, 301-504-0444, ext. 1148; Robert Frost, Contracting Officer, ext. 1142 WEB: CPSC Homepage, http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/contract.html. E-MAIL: g: users adcb rdwrite cbd00-1168, jlawn@cpsc.gov. The CPSC is interested in obtaining services from a Contractor to provide an independent audit of the quality of reporting injuries treated in the emergency departments from hospitals participating in CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). The NEISS consists of a national probability sample of 100 hospitals, drawn from the approximately 5,300 general hospitals in the U.S. with 24 hour emergency service. Information is collected by CPSC from the NEISS hospitals on all product-related injuries treated in the hospital emergency department. The injury information collected through the NEISS is weighted based on the sample design and used to make national estimates on product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. The contractor shall address both the completeness of reporting and the accuracy of coding the injury cases. A representative subsample of at least 15 of the 100 hospitals participating in the NEISS shall be individually audited. The contractor shall use the statistical design of the NEISS along with the results of the individual hospital audits to make a statistically valid inference on the overall completeness and accuracy of case ascertainment from the abstracted NEISS data. The analysis of NEISS data shall consider all NEISS data elements and other selected factors that may be associated with data quality, such as the experience and knowledge of hospital staff, hospital stratum and size, case identification and record abstraction protocols. The contractor shall also use the audit to make recommendations for improvements in procedures and training of NEISS hospital staff for correctly identifying and coding all injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. The contract period of performance will be approximately twelve (12) months. Request for Proposal (RFP) No. CPSC-P-00-1168 will be issued on or about June 8, 2000 with proposals due on or about July 10, 2000. All responsible sources may request a copy of the RFP and submit a written proposal which shall be considered by the agency. Requests for a copy of the RFP may be obtained by fax at (30l) 504-0628. No telephone requests for copies of the RFP will be accepted Posted 05/15/00 (W-SN454887). (0136)

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