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Authority: AS 18.08.010 AS 18.08.082

AS 18.08.080 AS 18.08.084 7 AAC 26.745. Trauma registry. (a) The department will establish a trauma system review committee in accordance with AS 18.23.070(5)(A). (b) The trauma system review committee shall keep trauma registry data confidential in accordance with AS 18.23.030, except that reports on

(1) trauma patients admitted to the hospital, declared dead in the emergency department, or transferred to another acute care hospital for treatment will be provided to that hospital; these reports include a patient log, a trauma service summary, a quality assurance summary, and a survival probability summary;

(2) patients treated by a state certified emergency medical service will be provided to that service, including a summary of activity, a quality assessment summary, a quality assurance summary, and a documentation compliance summary; and

(3) patient care reporting data, not including patient identifiers, physician identifiers, or hospital identifiers, may be provided to epidemiologists, health planners, medical researchers, or other interested persons to study causes, severity, demographics and outcomes of injuries, or for other purposes of studying the epidemiology of injuries or emergency medical services and trauma system issues. (c) An acute care hospital in this state certified under 7 AAC 26.710 — 7 AAC 26.745 as a level I, level II, level III, or level IV trauma center or as a level I or level II trauma center with a pediatric commitment must participate in the statewide trauma registry administered by the department. A hospital not certified as a trauma center under 7 AAC 26.710 — 7 AAC 26.745 may participate in the statewide trauma registry administered by the department. A hospital that participates in the statewide trauma registry shall make available to the department abstracts in the form prescribed by the department of the medical records of all trauma patients who were admitted to the hospital, declared dead in the emergency department, or transferred to another hospital for treatment. (d) The department may delegate the responsibility for collecting data under this section to a hospital, other public agencies, or to private persons or agencies, if the person or agency agrees to maintain confidentiality of the data in accordance with 7 AAC 26.790(b). (e) A trauma center certified under 7 AAC 26.710 — 7 AAC 26.745 must provide trauma