Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 173 - CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE › Chapter 1 - REPORTING AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 173-1-002 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 17, 2024
When terms are used in 173 NAC 1, the following definitions
				  apply:
Adult HIV Confidential Case Report Form means a CDC form for
				  reporting HIV in adult patients to the Department. The form is available for
				  download on the Department Website at
http://dhhs.ne.gov/publichealth/epi/Pages/ReportableDiseases.aspx
or by email request at dhhs.epi@nebraska.gov.
Advanced practice registered nurse
				  (APRN)
means a registered nurse who holds a current APRN license
				  as a Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Clinical
				  Nurse Specialist, or Nurse Practitioner.
Antibiotic susceptibility registry is the
				  secured online database of susceptibilities of bacterial isolates to
				  antimicrobial drugs reported to the state electronically by laboratories and
				  stored in NEDSS (see NEDSS definition below).
Case
means an instance of a
				  suspected or confirmed disease or condition in a person or animal.
CDC means the Centers for Disease Control and
				  Prevention.
CMS means Centers for Medicare and
				  Medicaid
Communicable disease, illness, or
				  poisoning
means an illness due to an infectious or malignant
				  agent, which is capable of being transmitted directly or indirectly to a person
				  from an infected person or animal through the agency of an intermediate animal,
				  host, or vector, or through the inanimate environment.
Confirmed case
means a case of
				  reportable disease that meets the case definitions specified and published by
				  the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) for each disease,
				  and available at
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/script/casedefDefault.aspx
.
				  Confirmed cases generally require a positive laboratory test for the given
				  disease, together with some clinical or epidemiologic data consistent with the
				  clinical signs and symptoms of that disease.
Contact
means a person or animal
				  that has been in close proximity/association with a communicable disease,
				  illness, or poison for such a period that they have had an opportunity to
				  become affected.
Department
means the Department of
				  Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Epidemic or outbreak
means the
				  occurrence of one or more than one case of an illness of similar nature in
				  persons of a community, institution, region, or other geographically defined
				  area which is clearly in excess of normal expectancy.
Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) means an
				  infection that occurs as a result of a medical treatment or residence in a
				  healthcare facility. Nebraska DHHS accepts the definitions of specific HAIs as
				  published by the CDC for NHSN (see NHSN definition below).
Healthcare Facility means any facility licensed
				  under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act, and such additional clinics or
				  facilities not licensed under that act as may be identified in specific orders
				  issued pursuant to 173 NAC.
Laboratory
means any facility that
				  receives, forwards, or analyzes specimens from the human body, or referred
				  cultures of specimens from the human body, and reports the results to
				  physicians and public health authorities.
Local public health department
means a county, district, or city-county health department approved by the
				  Department of Health and Human Services as a local full-time public health
				  service.
NEDSS
means the Nebraska Electronic
				  Disease Surveillance System for
electronic and
manual
				  online reporting.
NHSN means the National Healthcare Safety
				  Network.
Pediatric HIV Confidential Case Report Form
				  means a CDC form for reporting HIV in pediatric patients to the Department. The
				  form is available for download on the Department Website at
http://dhhs.ne.gov/publichealth/epi/Pages/ReportableDiseases.aspx
or by email request at
dhhs.epi@nebraska.gov.
Suspected case
means a person or
				  deceased person having a condition or illness in which the signs and symptoms
				  resemble those of a recognizable disease.