Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-18
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024
Section 28-1-18 - Reporting and submission requirements for laboratories(a) Each person who is in charge of a laboratory as specified in K.S.A. 65-118, and amendments thereto, shall provide the reports required by K.A.R. 28-1-2 to the department using an automated, secure electronic laboratory-reporting system or other means acceptable to the secretary. A person's use of electronic or automated reporting shall not exempt that person from reporting a suspected case within four hours as required by K.A.R. 28-1-2.(b) Each person who is in charge of a laboratory as specified in K.S.A. 65-118, and amendments thereto, shall submit the following to the department's office of laboratory services in the following order of preference, if the test results indicate the presence of any microorganism specified in subsection (c): (1) Isolates of positive cultures;(2) original clinical specimen from a patient;(4) any other materials determined by the secretary.(c) Each person who is in charge of a laboratory as specified in K.S.A. 65-118, and amendments thereto, shall submit the specimens specified in subsection (b) if the test results indicate the presence of any of the following microorganisms: (1) Any carbapenem-resistant organism;(3)Haemophilus influenzae, if identified in a patient with invasive disease;(5)Mycobacterium tuberculosis;(6)Neisseria meningitidis;(8) shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC);(10)Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive; andKan. Admin. Regs. § 28-1-18
Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 65-101, K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 65-118, and K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 65-128; effective, E-68-22, Aug. 9, 1968; effective Jan. 1, 1969; amended May 1, 1986; amended Aug. 23, 1993; amended Jan. 12, 1996; amended Dec. 1, 1997; amended Feb. 18, 2000; amended, T-28-8-9-02, Aug. 9, 2002; amended Dec. 2, 2002; amended by Kansas Register Volume 37, No. 17; effective 5/11/2018.