Utah Admin. Code R429-2-2 - Definitions
(1) "Adverse drug event" means any event
involving a medication that causes or leads to patient harm while the
medication is in the control of the facility. Such events may be related to
professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems,
including: prescribing, order communication, product labeling, packaging and
nomenclature, compounding, dispensing, distribution, administration, education,
monitoring, and use.
(2)
"Department" means the Utah Department of Health;
(3) "Facility" means a general acute
hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory surgical center, psychiatric
hospital, orthopedic hospital, rehabilitation hospital, chemical dependency or
substance abuse hospital or chronic disease hospital as those terms are defined
in Title 26, Chapter 25, Part 1, General Provisions.
(4) "Harm" means death or temporary or
permanent impairment of body function or structure requiring intervention such
as:
(a) a change in monitoring the patient's
condition;
(b) a change in therapy;
or
(c) active medical or surgical
treatment.
Notes
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