Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1009 - Disease Control and Public Health Response Division
6 CCR 1009-1 - EPIDEMIC AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL
Regulation 3 - Laboratory Reporting
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024
Where Reporter = 'L' in the Appendix A, Reportable Diseases, Condition, and Related Event Table, cases of diseases shall be reported with the information required in Regulation 1 by the laboratory, or by an outpatient clinic that performs laboratory testing on site, whether or not associated with a hospital. The following laboratories shall also report:
1) out-of-state laboratories that maintain an office or collection facility in Colorado or arrange for collection of specimens in Colorado; and
2) in-state laboratories that send specimens to out-of-state referral laboratories. The case shall be reported by a laboratory when a result diagnostic of or highly correlated with clinical illness is found. Laboratory assays which demonstrate only immunity should not be reported (for example, a single elevated rubella antibody titer obtained during routine prenatal screening should not be reported).
For organisms so noted in Appendix A, Reportable Diseases, Condition, and Related Event Table, testing laboratories shall routinely submit bacterial culture isolates or patient clinical material that yields positive findings to the Department, Laboratory Services Division. Clinical material is defined as:
All specimens shall be accompanied by the following information: