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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-701" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Child Fatality Review Teams">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Child” means an individual under the age of 18 years.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Health care provider” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An individual licensed or certified under the Health Occupations Article to provide health care; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A facility that provides health care to individuals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Local team” means the multidisciplinary and multiagency child fatality review team established for a county.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Meeting” includes meetings through telephone conferencing.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Developing a child death review case reporting system;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Training and serving as a liaison to State agencies participating in the system; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Disseminating national child death review data generated by the system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“State Team” means the State Child Fatality Review Team.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
