Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R438 - Utah Public Health Laboratory
Rule R438-15 - Newborn Screening
Section R438-15-2 - Definitions
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) "Abnormal test result" means a result that is outside of the normal range for a given test.
(2) "Appropriate specimen" means a blood specimen submitted on the Utah Newborn Screening form that conforms with the criteria in Section R438-15-9.
(3) "Blood spot" means a clinical specimen submitted on the paper of the newborn screening form using the heel stick method.
(4) "Department" means the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.
(5) "Follow up" means tracking any newborn with an abnormal result, inadequate or unsatisfactory specimen, or a quantity not sufficient specimen through to a normal result or confirmed diagnosis and referral.
(6) "Inadequate specimen" means a specimen determined by the Newborn Screening Laboratory to be unacceptable for testing.
(7) "Indeterminate result" means a result that requires another specimen to determine normal or abnormal status.
(8) "Institution" means a hospital, alternate birthing facility, or midwife service in Utah that provides maternity or nursery services or both.
(9) "Health care provider" means a person licensed by the Department of Commerce, Division of Professional Licensing to practice medicine, naturopathy, or chiropractic or to be a nurse practitioner, as well as the licensed or unlicensed midwife who takes responsibility for delivery or the on-going health care of a newborn.
(10) "Metabolic diseases" means those diseases screened by the Department which are caused by an inborn error of metabolism.
(11) "Newborn screening form" means the Department's demographic form with attached Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved filter paper medical collection device.
(12) "Quantity not sufficient specimen" or "QNS specimen" means a specimen that the laboratory has partially tested but does not have enough blood available to complete the full testing.
(13) "Unsatisfactory specimen" means an inadequate specimen.
