Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health › Chapter 521 - Control and Treatment of Communicable Disease › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 310:521-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in the Chapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Biologic public health threat"
means an
				  infectious, communicable disease, the agent of which may be readily transmitted
				  from an infectious person to a susceptible person without their knowledge or
				  consent, and the infectious nature of which is known to cause increasing
				  incidence of infection and disease upon transmission such that there is a
				  threat to the general public health.
"Clinical case"
means a case of an infectious
				  disease as defined by the presence of signs and symptoms compatible with the
				  disease and the absence of laboratory confirmation, which may be considered
				  communicable.
"Commissioner"
means the State Commissioner of
				  Health or any other person delegated specific authority by the Commissioner to
				  act under this Chapter.
"Communicable disease"
means an infectious
				  disease that is transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact with
				  an affected individual or by indirect contact with the individual's bodily
				  discharges.
"Compliance order"
means an order issued by the
				  Commissioner enforcing treatment, isolation, quarantine, or other behavioral
				  expectations.
"Contagious"
means the ability to spread a
				  communicable disease agent, as determined by the Commissioner.
"Department"
means the Oklahoma State Department
				  of Health.
"Directly observed therapy"
or
"DOT"
means disease treatment administered by a Public Health
				  Nurse, DOT Provider or other person authorized by the Commissioner who observes
				  the patient ingest each dose of oral medication and/or witnesses the
				  administration of each dose of parenteral medication.
"Infectious disease"
means a disease caused by
				  the entrance into the body of microorganisms (as bacteria, protozoans, fungi,
				  or viruses) that grow and multiply therein.
"Isolation"
means the confinement of an
				  individual or group of individuals who have or are suspected of having an
				  infectious disease constituting a biologic public health threat to an
				  appropriate facility or location to prevent the transmission of disease.
"Laboratory criteria for diagnosis"
means that
				  appropriate laboratory testing has been conducted which has identified the
				  likely presence of the infectious agent.
"Non-compliant behavior"
means behavior on the
				  part of the person with the suspected or confirmed infectious disease which
				  results in failure to comply with the ordered or prescribed diagnostic
				  procedures, treatment, therapy, isolation, quarantine, or control
				  measures.
"Non-contagious"
means an infectious or
				  suspected infectious disease that is no longer considered communicable because
				  one or more of the following have occurred:
1) full passage of the maximum period of infectivity for that
				  disease;
2) completion of a minimum treatment regimen;
3) certain clinical criteria are no longer present; or
4) certain laboratory criteria have been met.
"Order for Examination"
means an order issued by
				  the Commissioner instructing a person suspected or confirmed to have an
				  infectious disease to undergo testing to determine the presence of a
				  communicable disease.
"Order for Isolation"
means an order issued by
				  the Commissioner instructing a person suspected or confirmed to have a
				  communicable disease to cease all public or other prohibited contact.
"Order for Quarantine"
means an order issued by
				  the Commissioner that restricts the movement or activities of a person
				  suspected or confirmed to have been exposed to and potentially incubating an
				  infectious disease of public health importance.
"Order for Treatment"
means an order issued by
				  the Commissioner instructing a person suspected or confirmed to have a
				  communicable disease to undergo treatment for that disease.
"Quarantine"
means restricting the movement or
				  activities of an individual or group of individuals who are known or suspected
				  to have been exposed to an infectious disease constituting a biologic public
				  health threat, generally for the duration of the maximum incubation period of
				  the known or suspected disease.
"Respondent"
means the person(s) or legal
				  entity(ies) named in an order, petition or other pleading for an individual
				  proceeding or other administrative hearing, against whom relief is
				  sought.
"Suspect case"
means a person with symptoms
				  and/or signs consistent with an infectious disease, and the likelihood of
				  appropriate exposure to have been infected with the infectious agent, as judged
				  in the opinion of an experienced public health professional.
Added at 19 Ok Reg 2075,
				  eff 6-27-02; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1981, eff 6-25-07; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 1148,
				  eff 5-25-08