Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-57 - Ohio Birth Defects Information System › Section 3701-57-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter
(A) "Abnormal condition" means any condition
			 established at conception or acquired in utero which results in a morphologic
			 (structural), metabolic (biochemical), functional or behavioral derangement
			 necessitating medical or other intervention.
(B) "Birth defect" means an abnormal
			 condition resulting from an error of metabolism (biochemical), morphogenesis
			 (structural) or both, which is either established at conception or in utero
			 including congenital tumors and birth marks (hamartoneoplasia).
(C) "Birth Defects Information System" or
			 "system" means the collection and maintenance of information regarding abnormal
			 conditions, birth defects and congenital anomalies of fetal deaths and of
			 children from birth to five years of age, and the provision of referral
			 services to families with a child from birth to five years of age with a birth
			 defect. In Ohio, the system is named the "Ohio Connections for Children with
			 Special Needs" or "OCCSN".
(D)
			 "Congenital anomaly" means an error of morphogenesis (structural) which is
			 either established at conception or acquired during intrauterine
			 life.
(E) "Director" means the
			 director of the Ohio department of health or his or her designee.
(F) "Freestanding birthing center" means any
			 facility in which deliveries routinely occur, regardless of whether the
			 facility is located on the campus of another health care facility, and which is
			 licensed under Chapter 3711. of the Revised Code as level one, two, or three
			 maternity unit or a limited maternity unit.
(G) "Hospital" means a hospital classified
			 under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code as a
			 general hospital or children's hospital.
(H) "Local health
			 department" means a health department operated by the board of health of a city
			 or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of
			 health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code.
(I) "Physician" means
			 an individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice
			 medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
(J) "Referral
			 services" means a formal process to assure that parents or guardians of
			 children with birth defects are informed of medical and support services for
			 which they may be eligible in order to improve health outcomes and/or enhance
			 the quality of their children's lives.
(K) "Stillbirth" or
			 "fetal death" means death of a product of conception of at least twenty weeks
			 of gestation prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother
			 which, after such expulsion or extraction, 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.
(L) "Surveillance"
			 means the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and
			 dissemination of outcome-specific data for use in the planning, implementation
			 an evaluation of public health practice.