57-2004. PARTICIPATION IN PROGRAM. (1) Each licensed hospital shall report each case of TSE which meets the inclusion criteria to the department or the authorized contractor of the department within one hundred eighty (180) days of treatment.
(2) Each report of TSE shall include information as defined by the department.
(3) The department or authorized contractor of the department shall have physical access to all records which would identify reportable cases and/or establish characteristics, treatment or medical status of reportable cases in the event that there has been a failure to report as delineated in subsections (1) and (2) of this section.
(4) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the department or authorized contractor from identifying and reporting cases using data linkages with death records, other registries, and other potential sources.
History:
[57-2004, added 2002, ch. 329, sec. 2, p. 930; am. 2014, ch. 147, sec. 12, p. 409.]