2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 33-A - (3397-A - 3397-G) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH ACT
3397-E - Patient participation in program; procedure.

 
    §  3397-e.  Patient  participation  in  program;  procedure.    1. Any
  hospital may establish a hospital patient qualification review committee
  subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner.  A
  hospital may designate a hospital human research review committee as set
  forth in section twenty-four hundred forty-four of this chapter to serve
  as a hospital patient qualification review committee.
    2.  Any  physician  may  recommend  a patient for participation in the
  Antonio G. Olivieri controlled substances therapeutic  research  program
  to  the hospital patient qualification review committee for the hospital
  wherein such patient has received medical treatment.
    3. The hospital patient qualification review  committee  shall  review
  each  recommendation  and  shall submit approved patient applications to
  the state patient qualification review board.
    4. The state patient  qualification  review  board  shall  review  all
  physician  applicants  for the Antonio G. Olivieri controlled substances
  therapeutic research program and certify  or  refuse  to  certify  their
  participation in the program.
    5.  The  state  patient  qualification  review board may delegate to a
  hospital patient qualification review committee the authority to approve
  or disapprove a patient's participation in such program.
    6. A patient shall not be eligible  to  participate  in  such  program
  without  the approval of the state patient qualification review board or
  the hospital patient qualification review committee  delegated  pursuant
  to subdivision five of this section.
    7.  The  hospital  human  research  review committee shall review each
  human research project proposed  hereunder  and  shall  certify  to  the
  hospital  patient qualification review committee that such project meets
  the requirements of this  article  and  article  twenty-four-A  of  this
  chapter.