Sec. 19a-490e. Use of E-codes by hospitals, outpatient surgical facilities and outpatient clinics. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 19a-490e. Use of E-codes by hospitals, outpatient surgical facilities and outpatient clinics. Each hospital, licensed by the Department of Public Health as a short-term general hospital, out-patient surgical facility and out-patient clinic shall include in the record of each trauma patient, the international code for external cause of injuries known as an E-code. Each such facility shall include the E-code on records of inpatients. The Office of Injury Prevention established pursuant to section 19a-4i shall work with such facilities to provide training for medical records personnel concerning the proper use of E-codes.

      (P.A. 93-269, S. 2, 4; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)

      History: P.A. 93-269 effective July 1, 1993 (Revisor's note: Pursuant to P.A. 93-381 and P.A. 93-435 department of health services was changed editorially by the Revisors to department of public health and addiction services); P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.