Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 840 - HEALTH AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES REGISTRY CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL REGISTRY PROVISIONS › Section 840.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances
				  Registry Act [410 ILCS 525 ].
"
Adverse pregnancy outcomes" includes but is not
				  limited to birth defects, fetal loss, infant mortality, low birth weight,
				  selected life-threatening conditions, and other developmental disabilities as
				  defined
in Section
				  840.200
				  of this Part. (Section 3(1) of the Act)
"Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Reporting System" or "APORS"
				  means the Illinois Department of Public Health program established to compile a
				  registry of adverse pregnancy outcomes.
"Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center" means any facility
				  subject to licensure pursuant to the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act
				  [210 ILCS 5 ].
"Birth center" means a facility as defined under the
				  Alternative Health Care Delivery Act and licensed by the Department under the
				  Birth Center Demonstration Program Code (77 Ill. Adm. Code 265) to provide
				  birth services.
"Birth defect" means a condition of abnormal development
				  related to body structure, body function, body metabolism, or an error of body
				  chemistry that typically is identified at birth but can be diagnosed during
				  pregnancy or following birth. Birth defects can originate in a number of ways,
				  including having a genetic or metabolic origin.
"Cancer" means all malignant neoplasms, regardless of
				  the tissue of origin, including malignant lymphoma and leukemia.
(Section 3(e) of the Act)
"Cancer-confirming report" means the simple biopsy, excision
				  biopsy or surgical pathology report that confirms the morphologic (histologic)
				  type of cancer, primary site, and the stage or extent of disease.
"Cancer incidence" means a medical diagnosis of
				  cancer, consisting of a record of cases of cancer and specified cases of
				  tumorous or precancerous diseases which occur in Illinois, and such other
				  information concerning these cases as the Department deems necessary or
				  appropriate in order to conduct thorough and complete epidemiological surveys
				  of cancer and cancer-related diseases in Illinois.
(Section 3(f) of
				  the Act) Other information concerning cancer incidence may include, but is not
				  limited to, diagnosis, staging, treatment, follow-up and survival
				  information.
"Cancer surveillance" means the ongoing and systematic
				  collection and analysis of information on new cancer cases, cancer deaths,
				  extent of disease at diagnosis, treatment, clinical management, and
				  survival.
"Clinical laboratory" means any clinical laboratory as
				  defined in the Illinois Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank Act [210 ILCS 25
				  ].
"Company profile" includes but is not limited to the
				  name of any company operating in the State of Illinois which generates, uses,
				  disposes of or transports hazardous substances, identification of the types of
				  permits issued in such company's name relating to transactions involving
				  hazardous substances, inventory of hazardous substances handled by
the
company, and the manner in which
the
hazardous
				  substances are used, disposed of, or transported by the company.
(Section 3(j) of the Act)
"Confidential data" means Health and Hazardous Substances
				  Registry data containing identifiers or variables that, alone or in
				  combination, can lead to identification of individuals, health care providers,
				  or facilities (see Section
				  840.30(h))
				  .
"Congenital" means present at birth, referring to certain
				  mental or physical traits, anomalies, malformations, diseases, etc., that may
				  be either hereditary or caused by an influence occurring during fetal
				  development or pregnancy, up to the moment of birth.
"Council" means the Health and Hazardous Substances
				  Coordinating Council created by
the
Act.
(Section
				  3(c) of the Act)
"Current Procedural Terminology" or "CPT" or "Coding Index
				  Version 2007" means the coding index developed by the American Medical
				  Association (see Section
				  840.115)
				  .
"Death certificate clearance" means the process by which
				  incident cases are added to the database through review of the cause of death
				  on death certificates and subsequent follow-up with medical providers.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
				  Health.
(Section 3(a) of the Act)
"DHS" means the Illinois Department of Human Services.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois
				  Department of Public Health.
(Section 3(b) of the Act)
"DSCC" means the University of Illinois at Chicago's Division
				  of Specialized Care for Children.
"Elevated blood lead level" means a concentration of lead in
				  whole blood equal to or in excess of 10 micrograms per deciliter.
"Ethnicity" means the group of human kind to which an
				  individual belongs, either Hispanic (Latino) or not Hispanic (not
				  Latino).
"Facility" means a hospital, clinical laboratory, ambulatory
				  surgical treatment center, independent radiation therapy center, independent
				  pathology laboratory, reference pathology laboratory, nursing home, physician's
				  office, other health care provider's office, and/or any other diagnostic or
				  treatment center or other entity that is required by this Part to make reports
				  to the Department. "Facility" also includes any other institution, place or
				  building devoted primarily to the performance of medical care or surgical
				  procedures that is maintained by the State or local government bodies.
"Facility-identifying information" means any information,
				  collection or grouping of data from which the identity of the facility to which
				  it relates may be discerned, e.g., name, address or Department-assigned
				  facility identification number.
"Fetal death" means the demise of a fetus at gestation
				  greater than 20 weeks; the death is indicated if the fetus does not breathe or
				  show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the
				  umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles at delivery.
"Follow-up" means the reporting of or Registry-initiated
				  obtainment of patient's survival information after the first diagnosis of the
				  medical conditions defined by the Registry.
"Follow-up services" means medical, educational, social and
				  family support services provided to infants and children with adverse pregnancy
				  outcomes.
"Hazardous nuclear material" means:
any source or special nuclear material intended for
				  use or used as an energy source in a production or utilization facility as
				  defined in Sec. 11.v. or 11.cc. of the Federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as
				  amended;
any fuel which has been discharged from such a
				  facility following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been
				  separated by reprocessing;
or
any by-product material resulting from operation of
				  such a facility.
(Section 3(k) of the Act)
"Hazardous substances" means a hazardous substance as
				  defined in
Section 3.215 of
the Environmental Protection
				  Act
[415 ILCS 5 ]. (Section 3(h) of the Act)
"Hazardous substances incident" includes but is not
				  limited to spill, fire or accident involving hazardous substances, illegal
				  disposal, transportation, or use of hazardous substances, and complaints or
				  permit violations involving hazardous substances.
(Section 3(i) of the
				  Act)
"Hospital" means any facility subject to licensure pursuant
				  to the Hospital Licensing Act [210 ILCS 85 ].
"Institutional review board" or "IRB" means a specially
				  constituted review body established or designated by an institution to protect
				  the welfare of human subjects participating in research.
"Lead hazard" means a lead-bearing substance that, because of
				  its accessibility, poses a health hazard to humans.
"Local health authority" means the full-time official health
				  department or board of health, as recognized by the Department, that has
				  jurisdiction over a particular geographical area.
"mcg/d1" means micrograms per deciliter.
"Morphology" means a concise diagnostic description of a
				  tumor that includes the kind of tumor, the behavior of the tumor (e.g., benign,
				  insitu, malignant, or malignant uncertain, whether primary or metastatic), and
				  the grade or degree of differentiation of the cells.
"National Birth Defects Prevention Network" means a national
				  organization dedicated to improving the quality of birth defect surveillance
				  and providing technical assistance for the development of uniform methods of
				  data collection.
"Neonatal" means related to the period immediately succeeding
				  birth and continuing through the first 28 days of life.
"Newly diagnosed" means a condition or disease first
				  discovered or diagnosed by a licensed physician, dentist, or other health care
				  provider in a resident of the State of Illinois or a non-resident receiving
				  medical diagnosis or treatment in the State of Illinois.
"North American Association of Central Cancer Registries" or
				  "NAACCR" means the organization that sets standards that measure a central
				  registry's data completeness, quality and timeliness.
"Occupational disease" includes but is not limited to
				  all occupational diseases covered by the Workers' Occupational Diseases
				  Act
[820 ILCS 310 ]. (Section 3 (g) of the Act)
"Occupational Disease Registry" or "ODR" means the registry
				  established under Section 6 of the Act to compile information on fatal and
				  non-fatal occupational injuries, illnesses, and diseases.
"Other facility" means any person, organization, institution,
				  corporation, partnership or other entity not required to be licensed as a
				  health care facility by the State of Illinois, which maintains and operates
				  facilities for the performance of diagnostic, laboratory or therapeutic
				  services for the identification and treatment of cancer.
"Patient contact" means contacting patients based on
				  collected Registry data.
"Patient-identifying information" means any information or
				  collection or grouping of data from which the identity of the person to whom it
				  relates may be discerned, e.g., name, address and social security
				  number.
"
Perinatal" means the period of time between the
				  conception of an infant and the end of the first month of life.
(Section 2(a) of the Developmental Disability Prevention Act)
"
Perinatal center" means a referral facility intended
				  to care for the high risk patient before, duringor after labor and delivery and
				  characterized by sophistication and availability of personnel, equipment,
				  laboratory, transportation techniques, consultation and other support
				  services.
(Section 2(e) of the Developmental Disability Prevention
				  Act)
"Prenatal" means preceding birth.
"Primary site" means the anatomic location in a cancer
				  patient that identifies the site of origin of a tumor (i.e., where the cancer
				  first began).
"Public health surveillance" means the ongoing systematic
				  collection, analysis and interpretation of health data for purposes of
				  improving health and safety.
"Race" means the major group of human kind to which an
				  individual belongs, having distinct physical characteristics. These groups
				  include, but are not limited to: American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Black
				  or African American; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and
				  White.
"Rapid case ascertainment" means special case-finding
				  procedures that require early or preliminary reporting of certain types of
				  cancer cases or adverse pregnancy outcomes. The procedure may include the
				  review of patient medical records, pathology report forms, radiology reports,
				  laboratory reports and other diagnostic tests.
"Record uniqueness" means the quantification of the risk of a
				  breach of confidentiality of electronic health databases, including the
				  identifiability of cases through triangulation of information or linkage with
				  other electronic databases.
"Regional Perinatal Network" means any number and combination
				  of hospitals providing maternity and newborn services at a designated level of
				  perinatal care.
"Registry" means the Illinois Health and Hazardous
				  Substances Registry established by the Department of Public Health under
				  Section 6 of
the
Act.
(Section 3(d) of the
				  Act)
"Work" means duties, activities or tasks that produce a
				  product or result; that are done in exchange for money, goods, services,
				  profit, benefit or as a volunteer; and that are legal activities in the United
				  States.
"Work-related injury or illness" means an event or exposure
				  in the work environment that caused or contributed to the condition or
				  significantly aggravated a preexisting condition. Work-relatedness is presumed
				  for injuries and illnesses resulting from events or exposures occurring in the
				  workplace.
"Workplace fatality" means a fatality that occurs to an
				  employee (working for pay, compensation, or profit) or volunteer (exposed to
				  the same work hazards and performing the same duties or functions as paid
				  employees) while engaged in a legal work activity, or present at the site of
				  the incident as a requirement of his or her job. A work relationship exists if
				  an event or exposure results in a fatal injury to a person on or off the
				  employer's premises and the person was there to work; or if the event or
				  exposure was related to the person's work or status as an employee.
"Workplace nonfatal injury or illness" means an occupational
				  injury resulting from a work-related event or from exposure in the work
				  environment. Injuries or illnesses are reported if they result in lost work
				  time; if they require medical treatment (other than first aid); or if the
				  worker experiences loss of consciousness, restriction of work activities or
				  motion, or is transferred to another job.