Alabama Administrative Code › Title 420 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH › Chapter 420-2-4 - ALABAMA HEAD AND SPINAL CORD INJURY REGISTRY › Section 420-2-4-.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) "Accuracy"
			 means the correctness of data reported on head and spinal cord injury cases
			 submitted to the AHSCIR.
(2)
			 "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.
(3) "AHSCIR" means a
			 database created by state law to collect information about head and spinal cord
			 injuries. The AHSCIR is housed in the Office of Emergency Medical Services
			 (OEMS). Data from the trauma system may be included in the AHSCIR.
(4) "Board" or "State Board of Health" means
			 the Board of Health of the State of Alabama as defined by §
								22-2-1,
Code of Ala.
			 1975
, or the State Health Officer, or his or her designee, when
			 acting for the Board.
(5) "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.
(6) "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.
(7)
			 "Completeness" means the complete reporting of all confirmed cases of head
			 and/or spinal cord injury as well as all required data fields.
(8) "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.
(9) "Death Match" means
			 the matching of confirmed cases of head and/or spinal cord injuries reported to
			 the central registry with a listing of deceased individuals.
(10) "Electronic Data Submission" means
			 transferring data from a computer used by a reporting entity to a database
			 server specified by the AHSCIR.
(11) "Head and/or Spinal Cord Injury Patient"
			 means any person who is undergoing diagnosis or treatment for head and/or
			 spinal cord injury.
(12) "Health
			 Care Facilities" means all public, private, federal or military hospitals, or
			 any other facilities where head and spinal cord injury cases are diagnosed or
			 treated.
(13) "Institutional Review
			 Board (IRB)" means the members selected by the State Health Officer to examine
			 proposed research projects and ensure that research procedures will respect and
			 protect persons who are research subjects, maximize benefits, and minimize any
			 potential harm or risk.
(14)
			 "Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS)" means the subdivision of the
			 Department charged with the enforcement and administration of these
			 rules.
(15) "Spinal Cord Injury"
			 means occurrence of an acute traumatic lesion of neural elements in the spinal
			 canal (spinal cord and Cauda equina), resulting in temporary or permanent
			 sensory deficit, motor deficit, or bowel or bladder dysfunction.
(16) "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.
(17) "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.
(18) "Traumatic Brain Injury or Head Injury"
			 means an occurrence of injury to the head that is documented in a medical
			 record, with one or more of the following conditions attributed to head injury:
(a) Observed or self-reported decreased level
			 of consciousness.
(b)
			 Amnesia.
(c) Skull
			 fracture.
(d) Objective
			 neurological or neuropsychological abnormality.
(e) Diagnosed intracranial lesion.
(f) As an occurrence of death resulting from
			 trauma, with head injury listed on the death certificate, autopsy report, or
			 medical examiner's report in the sequence of conditions that resulted in death.
This definition applies to an acquired injury to the brain.
				This term does not include brain dysfunction caused by congenital or
				degenerative disorders, nor birth trauma, but may include brain injuries caused
				by anoxia due to near drowning.