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37.57.316    ABNORMAL TEST RESULT

(1) If an initial test result on an infant's blood specimen is outside the expected or normal range:

(a) the department will report that fact within 24 hours of test completion to the attending physician or midwife, or, if there is none or the physician or midwife is unknown, to the person who registered the infant's birth;

(b) the person to whom the above report is made must ensure that within 48 hours of receiving the notification of an abnormal test result, a second blood specimen will be taken and submitted to the department for a second test.

(2) If the second test result is outside the expected or normal range:

(a) the department will provide the test results within 24 hours of test completion to the same person to whom the initial results were reported;

(b) that person must ensure that a serum specimen from the infant is immediately sent either to the department or to another approved laboratory qualified to perform quantitative analysis for the substance in question;

(c) if the specimen is sent to a laboratory other than the department's, the person who submits it must send the department a copy of the analysis report for the specimen within 24 hours after receiving the report.

(3) An approved laboratory includes any state or territorial health department laboratory and any laboratory within their jurisdictions which is approved by them, a U.S. public health service laboratory, a laboratory operated by the U.S. Armed Forces or Veteran's Administration, a Canadian provincial public health laboratory, and any laboratory licensed under the provisions of the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967, as amended.

History: 50-19-202, MCA; IMP, 50-19-203, MCA; Eff. 12/31/72; AMD, Eff. 5/6/74; AMD, 1985 MAR p. 1612, Eff. 11/1/85; TRANS, from DHES, 2001 MAR p. 398; AMD, 2003 MAR p. 1298, Eff. 7/1/03; AMD, 2008 MAR p. 44, Eff. 1/18/08.

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