105 CMR, § 302.020

Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
Section 302.020 - Data Collection Manual

The Congenital Anomalies Registry shall maintain a data collection manual that identifies the discrete data items to be reported and the diagnoses required to be reported under 105 CMR 302.010, which shall be available upon request to all reporting physicians. The manual shall be revised periodically in accordance with national congenital anomaly surveillance standards and commonwealth-specific requirements. The manual shall include instructions that prohibit the collection of social security numbers. The manual also shall include instructions to record information relating to any pregnancy loss that is not a fetal death as a pregnancy loss and to record whether such pregnancy loss is case control surveillance eligible for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

105 CMR, § 302.020

Amended by Mass Register Issue 1325, eff. 11/4/2016.