§ 5-701

Maryland § 5-701

• Jurisdiction: Maryland
• Article ghg: Health - General
• Title: 5

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(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Child” means an individual under the age of 18 years.

(c) “Child death review case reporting system” means a national, standardized, web–based reporting system for the confidential collection, analysis, aggregation, and reporting of child death data that is maintained and operated by a national center for child death review.

(d) “Data use agreement” means a contract between the Department and a national center for child death review that establishes the terms and conditions for the State and local child fatality review teams’ participation in a child death review case reporting system.

(e) “Health care provider” means:

(1) An individual licensed or certified under the Health Occupations Article to provide health care; or

(2) A facility that provides health care to individuals.

(f) “Local team” means the multidisciplinary and multiagency child fatality review team established for a county.

(g) “Meeting” includes meetings through telephone conferencing.

(h) “National center for child death review” means a public, private, nonprofit, or governmental organization or entity that is funded or otherwise recognized by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for:

(1) Developing a child death review case reporting system;

(2) Training and serving as a liaison to State agencies participating in the system; and

(3) Disseminating national child death review data generated by the system.

(i) “State Team” means the State Child Fatality Review Team.

(j) “Unexpected child death” means a death of a child investigated by the office of the Chief Medical Examiner as required by § 5–309 of this title.