New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 4 - DISEASE CONTROL (EPIDEMIOLOGY) › Part 5 - MATERNAL, FETAL, INFANT AND CHILD DEATH REVIEW › Section 7.4.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "AAP" means the
				American academy of pediatrics
B.
				"ACOG" means the American college of obstetricians and gynecologists.
C. "CYFD" means the New Mexico children,
				youth and families department.
D.
				"Child fatality review" or "CFR" means a review that includes all reported
				deaths of children due to fatal injury or other undetermined cause from birth
				through 24 years of age, or a specific age range as determined appropriate by a
				special panel.
E. "Community based
				review" means the review that takes place in the community where the death
				occurs, is staffed by Team members approved by the department and may involve
				follow-back interview with informed consent to surviving family, providers of
				care or other relevant persons.
F.
				"Coordinator" means the person designated by the department to administer and
				manage the day to day operations of the review teams.
G. "Confidentiality" means the protection of
				the privacy of the decedent, the decedent's family, and any information
				pertaining to the fatality.
H.
				"Department" or "DOH" means the New Mexico department of health.
I. "Department designee for MCH death review"
				means the department staff person, usually an epidemiologist, authorized to
				receive information regarding deaths that fit the criteria for MMR, FIMR and
				CFR.
J. "Death investigation" means
				the investigation of a death by appropriate authorities for the purpose of
				establishing the manner and cause of death.
K. "Expert" means a person by whose training
				and present work-related activities or professional licensure has the requisite
				knowledge to review case information and contribute to an assessment of
				prevention factors, risk reduction factors and/or systems failure factors. The
				expert is bound by confidentiality policies and statute, and must be recognized
				by the department.
L. "Fetal and
				infant mortality review" or "FIMR" means a review including all reported deaths
				of fetuses (death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother
				of a product of human conception, fetus and placenta, irrespective of the
				duration of pregnancy), and infants (any death at any time from birth through
				one year).
M. "MCH" means public
				health practice concerned with maternal and child health.
N. "Maternal mortality review" or "MMR" means
				the review of all reported deaths of the following: pregnant women who die from
				any cause during pregnancy, or who die within one calendar year of pregnancy
				termination.
O. "Multidisciplinary
				team" means a team of experts comprising, but not limited to, the disciplines
				essential to death review, such as medicine, nursing, social work, law
				enforcement, mental health, public health, education, domestic violence, and
				child advocacy.
P. "OMI" means the
				New Mexico office of medical investigator.
Q. "PHD" means the public health division of
				the department.
R. "Prevention
				factors" means the circumstances, events, exposures or products that are
				identified by the death review team as potential contributors to the death and
				about which providers, communities and/or the public need to be informed and/or
				educated for the prevention of future such death(s).
S. "Retrospective case review" means the
				gathering of case information and analysis of information after the manner and
				cause of death have been registered with vital records and health statistics.
				Retrospective case review is not a death investigation process. It is a public
				health function concerned with assessment, prevention, risk reduction and/or
				systems improvements.
T. "Risk
				reduction factors" means the circumstances, events, exposures or products that
				are identified by the death review team as potential contributors to the death
				and about which providers, communities and/or the public need to be informed
				and/or educated for the prevention of future such death(s).
U. "Secretary" means the secretary of the
				department or his/her designee.
V.
				"Special panel" means a group convened on a permanent or temporary basis for
				the MMR, FIMR or CFR Team, to review an aggregation of deaths by selected
				categories to increase the power of analysis and interpretation by reviewing
				several cases of a similar manner or cause of death.
W. "State level review" means the process
				whereby statewide quantitative and qualitative data, gathered either at the
				state level or by a local community death review team, are analyzed and used
				for development of public policy, public health recommendations, and/or
				implementation of prevention measures.
X. "System failure factors" means the
				community-based circumstances, events, resources including the lack thereof,
				and provider policies that are identified by the death review team as potential
				contributors to the death and about which providers, communities and/or the
				public need to be informed and or educated for the prevention of future such
				death(s).
Y. "Team" means one of
				the state or community level MMR, FIMR or CFR teams.
Z. "UNM" means the university of New
				Mexico.
AA. "VRHS/NM" means the
				department entity responsible for vital records and health statistics in New
				Mexico.