R380-210-2. Definitions

"Adverse drug event" means any event involving a medication that causes or leads to patient harm, while the medication is in the control of the facility. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems including: prescribing; order communication; product labeling, packaging and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use."

"Facility" means a general acute hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory surgical center, psychiatric hospital, orthopedic hospital, rehabilitation hospital, chemical dependency/substance abuse hospital or chronic disease hospital as those terms are defined in Title 26, Chapter 21.

"Harm" means death or temporary or permanent impairment of body function or structure requiring intervention such as:

(1) a change in monitoring the patient's condition;

(2) a change in therapy; or

(3) active medical or surgical treatment.