Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-30 - Definitions
For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "College designee"
and "university designee" mean a person determined by the administration at a
postsecondary educational institution to be responsible for the oversight and
implementation of that institution's TB prevention and control plan.
(b) "Department" means Kansas department of
health and environment.
(c) "Health
care provider" means any of the following licensed persons: medical doctor,
doctor of osteopathy, doctor of podiatric medicine, advanced registered nurse
practitioner as defined in
K.S.A. 65-1113 and amendments thereto, and physician
assistant.
(d) "High-risk student"
means a student who meets any of the following conditions:
(1) Has signs and symptoms of active
TB;
(2) has been in contact with a
person who has been diagnosed with active TB; or
(3) has traveled, resided in for more than
three months, or was born in any country where TB is endemic as determined by
the secretary and consistent with guidance provided by the centers for disease
control and prevention.
(e) "Postsecondary educational institution"
has the meaning specified in
K.S.A. 65-129e, and amendments thereto.
(f) "Secretary" means secretary of health and
environment or the secretary's designee.
(g) "Student" means an individual who has
been admitted to a postsecondary educational institution where the course of
studies will require physical attendance in a classroom setting with one or
more persons.
(h) "TB" means
tuberculosis.
(i) "TB prevention
and control plan" means the policies and procedures adopted pursuant to
K.S.A. 65-129f, and amendments thereto, used at a
postsecondary educational institution to reduce the risk of tuberculosis
transmission and derived from pages 32 through 42 of the guidelines in
"controlling tuberculosis in the United States: recommendations from the
American thoracic society, CDC, and the infectious diseases society of
America," published in morbidity and mortality weekly report (MMWR) on November
4, 2005, vol. 54, no. RR-12. The pages specified in this subsection are hereby
adopted by reference.
(j)
"Tuberculosis" has the meaning specified in
K.S.A. 65-116a, and amendments thereto. For the
purposes of these regulations, the term "active TB" shall mean a person
diagnosed with tuberculosis by a health care provider, and the term "latent TB
infection" shall mean a person who is determined by a health care provider to
have the bacterium that causes tuberculosis but has not been diagnosed with
active TB.
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