New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, have the
				  following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Administrator" means the chief administrator or other person
				  having control or supervision over a hospital.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department.
"Condition category" means the name by which the Appendix to the
				  eWoRLD entitled "International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Codes," available at
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/eworld/Appendix/ICDCodes
,
				  identifies a group of diseases that share a common ICD-10-CM code.
"Confirmed, work-related" means, as used to describe asthma, a
				  diagnosis of asthma and a patient-reported work-related temporal pattern.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Discharge summary" means a discharge summary pursuant to
				  26:8-5 and
				  26:2H-12.9b through
				  26:2H-12.9d, known as Leonard Cohen's
				  law, and 8:43G-15.2.
"eWoRLD" means the NIOSH 2016 Work-Related Lung Disease
				  Surveillance System, which is incorporated herein by reference, as amended and
				  supplemented, of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public
				  Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for
				  Occupational Safety and Health, Respiratory Health Division, Surveillance Branch,
				  available at
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/eworld
.
"Health care provider" means a person whom the State of New Jersey
				  licenses pursuant to Title 45 of the New Jersey Revised Statutes, and acting within
				  the respective licensed scope of practice, as a physician, a physician assistant, or
				  an advanced practice nurse.
"Hospital" means a general and/or special hospital that the
				  Department licenses pursuant to
				  26:2H-1 et seq.
"Hospital discharge data" means a set of computerized records that
				  hospitals create at the time of patient discharge that contains information that
				  hospitals retrieve from patients' medical charts in accordance with
				  26:2H-1 et seq., and N.J.A.C.
				  8:31B.
" ICD-10-CM" means the International Statistical Classification of
				  Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (Fiscal
				  Year 2017 release), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented,
				  issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Center for
				  Health Statistics of the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
				  available at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm
.
"Minor" means a person who has not attained majority status
				  pursuant to 9:17B-1 et seq., that is, is under the
				  age of 18.
"Occupational and Environmental Disease, Injury, or Poisoning
				  Report by Health Care Provider" means form OCC-31, which appears at the chapter
				  Appendix with instructions for completion, both of which are incorporated herein by
				  reference.
1. The form OCC-31 and instructions for completion are available
				  on request to the Occupational Health Surveillance Unit and from the Department's
				  forms web page at
www.nj.gov/health/forms
.
"Occupational Health Surveillance Unit" means a unit within the
				  Department for which the contact information is Occupational Health Surveillance
				  Unit, Environmental and Occupational Health Surveillance Program, Consumer,
				  Environmental and Occupational Health Service, Division of Epidemiology,
				  Environmental and Occupational Health, New Jersey Department of Health, PO Box 369,
				  Trenton, NJ 08625-0369.
"Other occupational disease" means a disease that results from
				  work or occupational activity and that a health care provider believes to be a
				  threat to worker health.
"Suspected, work-related" means, as used to describe asthma, the
				  presentation of symptoms and a patient-reported work-related temporal
				  pattern.