Chapter 16 - Required Reporting and Mandatory Disclosure Laws Flashcards
vital records
Records of life events kept under governmental
authority, including birth certificates, marriage licenses (or marriage certificates), separation agreements, divorce certificates, and death certificate. In some jurisdictions, vital records may also include records of civil unions or domestic partnerships.
civil union
Also called a civil partnership.
A legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples. Civil unions grant most or all of the rights of marriage except the title itself.
notifiable disease
any disease that is required by law to be reported to government authorities
medical examiner
an appointed official in some American jurisdictions who is trained in pathology that investigates deaths that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests
Unlike a coroner, they must have medical training and be board-certified.
inquest
a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts relating to an incident, such as a death
pathology
the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury
coroner
a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes
in tandem (phrase)
(1) in partnership or conjunction
(1) in a tandem arrangement
tandem
a group of two or more arranged one behind the other or used or acting in conjunction, as in a tandem bicycle
retrospection
the act or process or an instance of surveying the past
survey
(1) to ask (many people) a question or a series of questions in order to gather information about what most people do or think about something
(2) to look at and examine all parts of (something)
(3) to measure and examine (an area of land)
defibrillator
Devices that restore a normal heartbeat by sending an electric pulse or shock to the heart. They are used to prevent or correct an arrhythmia, a heartbeat that is uneven or that is too slow or too fast. Defibrillators can also restore the heart’s beating if the heart suddenly stops.
graft (medicine)
a piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
gauze
(1) a thin often transparent fabric used chiefly for clothing or draperies
(2) a loosely woven cotton surgical dressing
(3) a firm woven fabric of metal or plastic filaments
suture (medicine)
a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body
MedWatch
also called Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
It is the FDA’s medical product safety reporting program for health professionals, patients and consumers. It receives reports from the public and when appropriate, publishes safety alerts for FDA-regulated products.
traumatic injury
physical injuries of sudden onset and severity which require immediate medical attention
immunization registry
also called immunization information system
an information system that collects vaccination data about all persons within a geographic area
histocompatibility
compatibility between the tissues of different individuals, so that one accepts a graft from the other without having an immune reaction
qualified clinical data registry (QCDR)
a CMS-approved entity that collects clinical data from an individual clinician, group, and/or virtual group and submits the data to CMS on their behalf as a part of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
