AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Utah Public Health Laboratory. Newborn Screening
SERIES: 30744
TITLE: Dried blood spot cards
DATES: 1979-
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological by laboratory accession number.
DESCRIPTION: These records support the agency's function to screen newborns for "heritable disorders which may result in an intellectual or physical disability, or death" (Utah Code 26B-4-319 (1) (2023)).These records are the blood spot cards from the newborn screen test kits. The records contain sample identification numbers. No patient demographic information is attached.
RETENTION
Retain for 7 year(s)
DISPOSITION
Destroy.
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the Records Management Committee.
APPROVED: 06/2024
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in Office for 7 years and then destroy.
APPRAISAL
Administrative
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Exempt. Utah Code 26B-8-406 (2023)