Alabama Administrative Code › Title 420 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH › Chapter 420-7-4 - ALABAMA HEAD AND SPINAL CORD INJURY REGISTRY › Section 420-7-4-.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(a) "Accuracy"
			 means the correctness of data reported on head and spinal cord injury cases
			 submitted to the AHSCIR according to standards recommended by the Centers for
			 Disease Control and Prevention in Guidelines for Surveillance of Central
			 Nervous System Injury.
(b)
			 "Advisory Council" means the council appointed by the State Health Officer
			 consisting of health care professionals, university representatives,
			 appropriate state agencies, persons or family members of persons with head and
			 spinal cord injuries, and other interested parties from various health
			 associations.
(c) "Clinical
			 Records" means any record, hard copy or patient abstract, containing
			 information which could lead to the identification of head and spinal cord
			 injury patients, head and spinal cord injury diagnosis or treatment facilities,
			 independent clinical laboratories, or health care providers.
(d) "Clinical Information" means any
			 information which could lead to the identification of head and spinal cord
			 injury patients, head and spinal cord injury diagnosis or treatment facilities,
			 or health care providers.
(e)
			 "Completeness" means the complete reporting of all confirmed cases of head
			 and/or spinal cord injury as well as all required data fields.
(f) "Data Acquisition Manual" means the
			 manual developed by the AHSCIR which specifies the rules and guidelines used
			 when abstracting a confirmed head and/or spinal cord injury case to be
			 reported.
(g) "Death Match" means
			 the matching of confirmed cases of head and/or spinal cord injury reported to
			 the central registry with a listing of deceased individuals.
(h) "Electronic data submission" means
			 transferring data from a computer used by a reporting entity to a computer
			 specified by the AHSCIR through the use of a modem, magnetic tape, or magnetic
			 disk.
(i) "Head and/or Spinal Cord
			 Injury Patient" means any person who is undergoing diagnosis or treatment for
			 head and/or spinal cord injury.
(j)
			 "Head Injury" means an occurrence of injury to the head that is documented in a
			 medical record. See Data to Be Reported, Section 1.
(k) "Health Care Facilities" mean all public,
			 private, federal or military hospitals or any other facilities where head and
			 spinal cord injury cases are diagnosed or treated.
(l) "Research Review Committee" means the
			 committee appointed by the State Health Officer consisting of representatives
			 from the AHSCIR Advisory Council and the Alabama Department of Public Health
			 (ADPH).
(m) "Spinal Cord Injury"
			 means occurrence of an acute traumatic lesion of neural elements in the spinal
			 canal.
(n) "Statistical Data" means
			 collected aggregate data which does not lead to the identification of head and
			 spinal cord injury patients, diagnosis or treatment facilities, or health care
			 providers.
(o) "Timeliness" means
			 the reporting of all confirmed cases of head and spinal cord injuries within 90
			 days of diagnosis or admission to an acute care hospital.
(p) "Trauma Registry" means a collection of
			 injury data on patients that is maintained as an identified repository of such
			 data for, or within any hospital, medical clinic, or centralized institution.
Author:
Teresa S. Pells, M.P.H.
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §
										22-11C-1,
et
seq
.