Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 31 > Subchapter 1 - Compact

• Adverse event: is a ny untoward incident, therapeutic misadventure, iatrogenic injury, or other undesirable occurrence directly associated with care or services provided by a health care provider or health care facility. See
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Causal analysis: means a formal root cause analysis, similar analytic methodologies, or any similarly effective but simplified processes that use a systematic approach to identify the basic or causal factors that underlie the occurrence or possible occurrence of a reportable adverse event, adverse event, or near miss. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corrective action plan: means a plan to implement strategies intended to eliminate or significantly reduce the risk of a recurrence of an adverse event and to measure the effectiveness of such strategies. See
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hospital: means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for in-patient medical or surgical care of individuals who have an illness, disease, injury, or physical disability, or for obstetrics. See
• Intentional unsafe act: shall mean an adverse event or near miss that results from:

• Licensing agency: means the Department of Health. See
• Near miss: means any process variation that did not affect the outcome, but for which a recurrence carries a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome. See
• Permit: means any permit or license issued pursuant to this title. See
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See
• Person: means any individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, the U. See
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Safety system: means the comprehensive patient safety surveillance and improvement system established pursuant to this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. See
• Serious bodily injury: means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or substantial impairment of health or substantial disfigurement. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.