Texas Administrative Code › Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES › Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 103 - INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Section 103.2 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in these sections,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
(1) Call for assistance--An
				event where an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider is activated via an
				internal communication system or by a 9-1-1 operator.
(2) Case--A person in whom an injury is
				identified by a physician or medical examiner based upon clinical evaluation,
				interpretation of laboratory and/or radiological findings, and an appropriate
				exposure history.
(3)
				Commissioner--Commissioner of the Department of State Health
				Services.
(4) Data dictionaries--A
				collection of descriptions of the data elements in the Texas EMS & Trauma
				Registries database.
(5)
				Department--The Department of State Health Services, 1100 West 49th Street,
				Austin, Texas 78756-3180.
(6)
				Electronic reporting--Submitting data by computer in a format prescribed by the
				department.
(7) Emergency Medical
				Services (EMS) provider--A person or entity that uses, operates or maintains
				EMS vehicles and EMS personnel to provide EMS; as defined by Health and Safety
				Code, §
									773.003(11)
				and Chapter 157, Subchapter A, §
									157.2 of
				this title (relating to Definitions).
(8) Health authority--A physician appointed
				as such under Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 121.
(9) Injury--Damage to the body resulting from
				intentional or unintentional acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical,
				or chemical energy, or from the absence of essentials such as heat or
				oxygen.
(10)
				Investigation--Fieldwork designed to obtain more information about an
				incident.
(11) Local health
				department--A department created under the Texas Health and Safety Code,
				Chapter 121.
(12) No reportable
				data (NRD)--If the entity does not have any reportable event for a given month,
				the entity shall inform the Texas EMS & Trauma Registries monthly by
				providing the NRD submission.
(13)
				Regional Registry--A system that collects, maintains and reports EMS provider
				runs and trauma data to the department for a designated area of the
				state.
(14) Registries --The Texas
				EMS & Trauma Registries is the statewide database housed within the
				department; responsible for the collection, maintenance, and evaluation of
				medical and system information related to required reportable events as defined
				in this section.
(15) Reporting
				entity--An EMS provider, a justice of the peace, a medical examiner, a
				physician, or an entity reporting on behalf of the physician including a
				hospital or an acute or post-acute rehabilitation facility.
(16) Reportable event--Any injury or incident
				required to be reported under this chapter.
(A) EMS run--A resulting action from a call
				for assistance where an EMS provider is dispatched to, responds to, provides
				care to or transports a person.
(B) Traumatic brain injury (TBI)--An acquired
				injury to the brain, including brain injuries caused by anoxia due to
				submersion incidents.
(C) Spinal
				cord injury (SCI)--An acute, traumatic lesion of the neural elements in the
				spinal canal, resulting in any degree of sensory deficit, motor deficits, or
				bladder/bowel dysfunction.
(D)
				Submersion injury--The fatal or non-fatal process of experiencing respiratory
				impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid.
(E) Significant trauma injuries--Other
				severely injured trauma patients whose injury meets the department's inclusion
				criteria based on the data dictionaries and admitted to a hospital inpatient
				setting for more than 48 hours, or died after receiving any evaluation or
				treatment, or was dead on arrival, or transferred into or out of a
				hospital.