Agency : DCY
Confidential Description : Confidential Justification: This record series contains sensitive, multi-source records used in fatality review, including healthcare records (e.g., admission history, autopsy reports, EMS, prenatal/postpartum care, mental health, substance use, laboratory results, and care records preceding death) and police reports (e.g., 911 detail, CAD, crash, incident, arrest, investigative, and BOLO reports). These records include PII, PHI, and protected investigative information and are restricted from public disclosure to protect privacy and comply with state and federal laws.
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Record Description : Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) records. Records of any services to women who died during pregnancy or within one year of pregnancy. These records can include: Healthcare Records: Admission history for all hospital admissions, Autopsy Report, Physical examination records from all hospital admissions, Coroner’s Notes, Declaration of Death, Discharge summary for all hospital admissions, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Transport Records, Labor and Delivery Records, Prenatal Care Records, Postpartum Care Records, Social Service Records, Mental Health Records, Substance Use Disorder Records, Plan of Safe Care, Operative and Procedure Reports, Nursing Notes, Physician Progress Notes, Laboratory Test Results, Anesthesia Records, Consultation and Referral Records, Vitals Flow Sheets, Toxicology Report, Investigator’s Notes, Legal Records, Other: Complete Records Requested for care two years preceding death. Police Reports: 911-Detail Reports, MVA Crash Reports, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)-Reports, Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA) Forensic Reports, Incident Reports, Arrest Reports, Incident Reports, Investigative Reports, Missing Person Reports and/or "be on the look out" (BOLO) Reports. Records are used to create deidentified case summaries for a review by a multidisciplinary committee of experts to determine pregnancy-relatedness, cause of death, circumstances of death, preventability, and make actionable recommendations to prevent future preventable, pregnancy-related deaths. Quantitative and qualitative de-identified data is used for legislatively mandated reporting (ORC 5180.277).