Rule 3701-67-06 | Child fatality review information system.
(A) The director shall provide a data collection tool for the review of child deaths or arrange for the use of a national child death review database. The individual data collection shall be maintained in a confidential manner.
(B) Each CFR board will use the director's data collection tool or the national child death review database to record the following information:
(1) Demographic information that includes:
(a) Age of the child;
(b) Sex of the child, identified as male or female;
(c) Race of the child, identified as black, white, native American, Asian, Alaskan native, native Hawaiian, Pacific islander, unknown or multiple;
(d) Ethnicity of the child identified as Hispanic or Latino origin; and
(e) Infant death information that includes:
(i) Gestational age;
(ii) Birth weight;
(iii) Multiple gestation;
(iv) Mother's number of pregnancies;
(v) Mother's number of live births;
(vi) Mother's number of living children;
(vii) Prenatal care provided during pregnancy of deceased infant;
(viii) Access or compliance issues related to prenatal care;
(ix) Medical conditions/complications during pregnancy;
(x) Medical complications in previous pregnancies;
(xi) Medication, drug or substance use during pregnancy;
(xii) Infant born drug exposed;
(xiii) Infant neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS);
(xiv) Level of birth hospital;
(xv) At hospital discharge, was a case manager assigned;
(xvi) Whether mother attended postpartum visit;
(xvii) Did the infant stay in NICU more than one day;
(xviii) Did mother smoke in three months before pregnancy;
(xix) Did mother smoke at any time during pregnancy;
(xx) Was mother injured during pregnancy;
(xxi) Did mother have postpartum depression;
(xxii) Was infant ever breastfed;
(xxiii) Did infant have abnormal metabolic newborn screening results;
(xxiv) Prior to last seventy-two hours of life, did infant have history of medical conditions, symptoms, injury, vaccine administration, medications, feeding.
(2) Death related information, that includes:
(a) Year of child's death;
(b) Geographic location of death;
(c) Cause of death; and
(d) Contributing factors to death, that includes:
(i) Poisoning, overdose or acute intoxication, including:
(a) Type of substance involved;
(b) Storage location of substance;
(c) Product original container;
(d) Container child safety cap;
(e) Incident result of; and
(f) Poison control contacted.
(ii) Death related to sleeping environment, including:
(a) Was death related to sleeping/sleep environment;
(b) Incident sleep space;
(c) Position of child when put to sleep;
(d) Position of child when found;
(e) Usual sleep position;
(f) Availability of suitable sleep location;
(g) Usual sleep place;
(h) Child in new or different environment;
(i) Child placed to sleep with pacifier;
(j) Child wrapped or swaddled in blanket;
(k) Child overheated;
(l) Child exposed to second-hand smoke;
(m) Position of child's face when found;
(n) Position of child's neck when found;
(o) Status of child's airway;
(p) Objects in child's sleep environment and relation to airway obstruction;
(q) Caregiver/supervisor fell asleep when feeding child;
(r) Child sleeping in same room as caregiver/supervisor;
(s) Child sharing sleep surface with person(s) or animal(s);
(t) Reasons for sharing sleep surface; and
(u) Scene re-creation photo available.
(3) Data quality information that includes:
(a) Data entry completed for the case; and
(b) Preventability of the death.
(4) Any other information the CFR board considers relevant to the review.
(C) Individual data related to a child death review that is reported on the data collection tool or the national child death review database is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Last updated February 16, 2023 at 8:29 AM
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