West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-29 - Fatality and Mortality Review Team › Section 64-29-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Bureau - The
				Bureau for Public Health in the Department of Health and Human
				Resources.
3.2. Child - A person
				less than eighteen (18) years of age.
3.3. Child Fatality Review Panel (CFRP) - A
				multidisciplinary group of professionals including representatives from public
				health, medicine, law and law enforcement, and child welfare that reviews the
				circumstances surrounding the deaths of children.
3.4. Commissioner - The Commissioner of the
				Bureau for Public Health or his or her designee.
3.5. Department - The West Virginia
				Department of Health and Human Resources.
3.6. Domestic violence fatality - An
				unnatural death precipitated by events surrounding a relationship among
				individuals who are family or household members as defined in W. Va. Code
				§
									48-27-204.
3.7. Domestic Violence Fatality Review Panel
				(DVFRP) - A multidisciplinary group of professionals including but not limited
				to representatives from public health, mental health, medicine, law and law
				enforcement and adult welfare that reviews the circumstances surrounding the
				deaths of children or aduhs which may be related to incidents of domestic
				violence.
3.8. Domestic violence
				incident - An unnatural death resulting from an action defined in WV Code
				§
									48-27-202
				which is reviewed by the panel. The final determination as to whether an
				incident is a domestic violence fatality shall be made at the time of the panel
				review.
3.9. Fatality and Mortality
				Review Team (FMRT) - A multidisciplinary team created to oversee and coordinate
				the examination, review and assessment of the unexplained, unexpected or
				unintentional deaths of children, infants, mothers during pregnancy or within
				one year of giving birth, persons suspected to have died from domestic violence
				and those who die from an unintentional prescription or pharmaceutical drug
				overdose.
3.10. Immediate review -
				A review of the circumstances surrounding the death of a child that occurs
				between twenty-four (24) and forty-eight (48) hours following the death of a
				child.
3.11. Infant and Maternal
				Mortality Review Panel (IMMRP) - A multidisciplinary group of professionals
				including representatives from public health and the medical community that
				review the circumstances surrounding the deaths of infants who die in the first
				year of life and women who die during pregnancy, at the time of birth or within
				one year of the birth of a child.
3.12. Infant mortality - Death of a live born
				infant in the first year of life.
3.13. Incident - An unnatural death reviewed
				by a panel. The final determination as to whether an incident is a child
				fatality, domestic violence fatality, infant or maternal fatality or an
				unintentional pharmaceutical drug overdose fatality shall be made at the time
				of the panel's review.
3.14.
				Maternal mortality - Death of a woman during pregnancy, at the time of birth or
				within one year of the birth of a child from any cause related to or aggravated
				by pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental
				causes.
3.15. Review - The process
				by which all of the facts and circumstances about a deceased child or person
				suspected to have died due to domestic violence, unintentional pharmaceutical
				drug overdose or an infant or maternal death are known to members of a panel
				and are shared and discussed among the members of that panel.
3.16. Unexpected death - The death of a
				healthy child whose immediate death is not anticipated.
3.17. Unexplained death - The cause and
				manner of death that cannot be determined after an autopsy and thorough
				investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death.
3.18. Unintentional pharmaceutical drug
				overdose - The death of a person from an apparent unintentional drug overdose
				of either a prescription drug or other pharmaceutical drugs.
3.19. Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug
				Overdose Review Panel (UPDORP) - A multidisciplinary panel created to examine,
				review and analyze the deaths of all persons in the state of West Virginia who
				die as a result of unintentional prescription or pharmaceutical drug
				overdoses.