Utah Admin. Code R438-15-2 - Definitions
(1) "Abnormal test result" means a result
that is outside of the normal range for a given test.
(2) "Appropriate specimen" means a blood
specimen submitted on the Utah Newborn Screening form that conforms with the
criteria in Section R438-15-9.
(3) "Blood spot" means a clinical specimen
submitted on the paper of the newborn screening form using the heel stick
method.
(4) "Department" means the
Utah Department of Health and Human Services.
(5) "Follow up" means tracking any newborn
with an abnormal result, inadequate or unsatisfactory specimen, or a quantity
not sufficient specimen through to a normal result or confirmed diagnosis and
referral.
(6) "Inadequate specimen"
means a specimen determined by the Newborn Screening Laboratory to be
unacceptable for testing.
(7)
"Indeterminate result" means a result that requires another specimen to
determine normal or abnormal status.
(8) "Institution" means a hospital, alternate
birthing facility, or midwife service in Utah that provides maternity or
nursery services or both.
(9)
"Health care provider" means a person licensed by the Department of Commerce,
Division of Professional Licensing to practice medicine, naturopathy, or
chiropractic or to be a nurse practitioner, as well as the licensed or
unlicensed midwife who takes responsibility for delivery or the on-going health
care of a newborn.
(10) "Metabolic
diseases" means those diseases screened by the Department which are caused by
an inborn error of metabolism.
(11)
"Newborn screening form" means the Department's demographic form with attached
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved filter paper medical collection
device.
(12) "Quantity not
sufficient specimen" or "QNS specimen" means a specimen that the laboratory has
partially tested but does not have enough blood available to complete the full
testing.
(13) "Unsatisfactory
specimen" means an inadequate specimen.
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