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2012 Utah Code
Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Article 21 - Health Care Facility Licensing and Inspection Act
Section 26 - General acute hospital to report prescribed controlled substance poisoning or overdose.

Universal Citation:
UT Code ยง 26-21-26 (2012)
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26-21-26. General acute hospital to report prescribed controlled substance poisoning or overdose.

(1) Beginning on July 1, 2012, if a person who is 12 years of age or older is admitted to a general acute hospital for poisoning involving a prescribed controlled substance, the general acute hospital shall, within three business days after the day on which the person is admitted, send a written report to the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, created in Section 58-1-103, that includes:

(a) the patient's name;

(b) each drug or other substance found in the person's system that may have contributed to the poisoning or overdose, if known; and

(c) the name of each person who the general acute hospital has reason to believe may have prescribed a controlled substance described in Subsection (1)(b) to the person, if known.

(2) Nothing in this section may be construed as creating a new cause of action.


Enacted by Chapter 290, 2010 General Session

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