All providers of health care, health care facilities, medical examiners, coroners and funeral homes must report immediately to their local and state health department, each death that is caused by, associated with or related to COVID-19 infection consistent with the CDC criteria. This includes information on the immediate cause of death, such as a heart […]
Employers must notify NVOSHA of all workplace accidents involving an employee fatality or fatalities within 8 hours after learning of the accident. Employers must report to NVOSHA all inpatient hospitalizations of one or more employees, amputations of a part of an employee’s body or an employee’s loss of an eye within 24 hours after learning of the hospitalization, amputation […]
Physician or APRN last in attendance must sign medical certificates of death, including stillbirth within 48 hours. The funeral director or person acting as undertaker shall present the completed certificate of death to the local registrar within 72 hours after the occurrence or discovery of death.
The reporting of any death in a healthcare facility is required (not related to NQF), with the exception of a “death due to natural causes” as understood in a general meaning and for which it has been established that the cause of death is not due to any contributing factors by the healthcare facility.
Hospitals must report deaths associated with the use of seclusion or restraint.
The following sentinel events involve death. Please click on the links to view the reporting requirements: 1E. Intraoperative or immediately postoperative/postprocedure death in an ASA Class I patient 2A. Patient death or serious injury associated with the use of contaminated drugs, devices, or biologics provided by the healthcare setting 2B. Patient death or serious injury […]
Facilities are required to report when it receives information that reasonably suggests that a medical device has (or may have) caused or contributed to a serious injury or death of a patient or employee of the facility. The FDA receives voluntary reports on other serious adverse event, product quality problem, product use/medication error, or therapeutic inequivalence/failure that […]
