25 Tex. Admin. Code § 103.2 - Definitions
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.
(17) Suspected
case--A case in which an injury is assumed, but a diagnosis is not yet made, as
in the example of justices of the peace.
(18) Third-party services--Includes, but is
not limited to a regional registry located in a trauma service area (TSA), a
billing agency, or a data reporting agency.
(19) Trauma--An injury or wound to a living
body caused by the application of an external force, including but not limited
to violence, burns, poisonings, submersion incidents, traumatic brain injuries,
traumatic spinal cord injuries, and suffocations.
(20) Trauma service area (TSA)--A
multi-county area in which an emergency medical services and trauma care system
has been developed by a Regional Advisory Council and has been recognized by
the department.
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