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Regulation .01 Responsibilities of MIEMSS.

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MIEMSS shall:
A.
Maintain the State trauma registry to collect and analyze data including, but not limited to, data concerning the incidence, severity, and causes of trauma and burns;
B.
Establish criteria to identify patients to be included in the State trauma registry;
C.
Collect data about patients to be included in the State trauma registry from:
(1)
EMS providers;
(2)
Hospitals, both designated and nondesignated including, but not limited to:
(a)
The primary adult resource center;
(b)
Level I trauma centers;
(c)
Level II trauma centers;
(d)
Level III trauma centers; and
(e)
Maryland Trauma Specialty Referral Centers as defined in Health-General Article, §19-130(a)(3), Annotated Code of Maryland;
(3)
Office of Medical Examiner reports; and
(4)
Other sources outside of the trauma and specialty care systems including, but not limited to:
(a)
Death certificates,
(b)
Hospital inpatient discharge data,
(c)
Health care provider and third-party payer billing data, and
(d)
Law enforcement agency records;
D.
Require hospitals to have a case specific patient identifier common to all data sources used in the State trauma registry; and
E.
Establish procedures and specifications for electronic and hard copy submission of data.