P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 572
Every person in charge of a laboratory, or any person or laboratory where tests are processed for the diagnosis or confirmation of sexually-transmitted diseases, shall report all positive or reactive results of said tests to the Program within five (5) days following the test. Said report shall be written on the forms specially provided by the Department, and shall contain that information that the Department deems necessary for the epidemiological study of the sexually-transmitted diseases. The report will include the name, age, sex and residential address of the patient, as well as the name and address of the physician who recommended the test.
All these reports shall be placed in envelopes marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and kept in the files of the laboratory, and identified by serial numbers or codes to that effect; and only the nature of the analysis and the results thereof shall be sent to the Program under the identification number affixed thereto.
History —June 4, 1983, No. 81, p. 180, § 2.