Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 50 > Chapter 16 > Part 2 - Professional Review Committees

• Data: means written reports, notes, or records or oral reports or proceedings created by or at the request of a utilization review, peer review, medical ethics review, quality assurance, or quality improvement committee of a health care facility that may be shared with a medical practitioner, including the medical practitioner being reviewed, and that are used exclusively in connection with quality assessment or improvement activities, including the professional training, supervision, or discipline of a medical practitioner by a health care facility. See Montana Code 50-16-201
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Health care facility: has the meaning provided in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 50-16-201
• Medical practitioner: means an individual licensed by the state of Montana to engage in the practice of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, optometry, or a nursing specialty described in 37-8-202 or licensed as a physician assistant pursuant to 37-20-203. See Montana Code 50-16-201
• occurrence report: means a written business record of a health care facility that:

  (i)may be but is not required to be created by the staff involved in response to an untoward event, such as a patient injury, adverse outcome, or interventional error, for the purpose of ensuring a prompt evaluation of the event; and

  (ii)is a factual rendition of the event. See Montana Code 50-16-201

• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201