Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64D - Division of Disease Control › Chapter 64D-3 - CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS WHICH MAY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH › Section 64D-3.029 - Diseases or Conditions to be Reported

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				Diseases or conditions listed in subsection (3), below, are identified by the
				Department as being of public health significance. These diseases or conditions
				must be reported by the practitioner, hospital, laboratory, or other
				individuals via telephone (with subsequent written report within 72 hours, see
				Rules  64D-3.030 -.033, F.A.C.),
				facsimile, electronic data transfer, or other confidential means to the
				Department, which includes the County Health Departments. Reporters are not
				prohibited from reporting diseases or conditions not listed by rule. Reports
				should include all associated testing results performed (e.g. serogroup,
				serotype, and antimicrobial susceptibility results). Physicians and other
				healthcare providers using point of care tests for diagnosis of infectious
				diseases must report test results to the Department when they are indicative of
				an infectious disease reportable directly to the Department by laboratories
				unless such point of care testing is subject to routine reflex testing by a
				supplementary or confirmatory testing the results of which would be
				reportable.
(2) Definitions to be
				used with subsection (3), below:
(a)
"Reportable Diseases or Conditions"
- The definitions of
				"suspected case" and "confirmed case" for reportable diseases or conditions are
				set forth in "Surveillance Case Definitions for Select Reportable Diseases in
				Florida, " January 2016 version 1.1, incorporated by reference, available
				online at:
https://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-07442
.
(b)
"Suspect Immediately"
-
				A reportable condition of urgent public health importance. Report without delay
				upon the occurrence of any of the following: initial suspicion, receipt of a
				specimen with an accompanying request for an indicative or confirmatory test,
				findings indicative thereof, or suspected diagnosis. Reports that cannot timely
				be made during the County Health Department business day shall be made to the
				County Health Department after-hours duty official. If unable to do so, the
				reporter shall contact the Department after-hours duty official at
				(850)245-4401.
(c)
"Immediately"
- A reportable condition of urgent public health
				importance. Report without delay upon the occurrence of any of the following:
				an indicative or confirmatory test, findings indicative thereof, or diagnosis.
				Reports that cannot timely be made during the County Health Department business
				day shall be made to the County Health Department after-hours duty official. If
				unable to do so, the reporter shall contact the Department after-hours duty
				official at (850)245-4401.
(d)
"Next Business Day"
- Report before the closure of the County
				Health Department's next business day following suspicion or
				diagnosis.
(e)
"Other"
- Report consistent with the instruction in and
				footnotes to subsection (3), below.