AGENCY: Southwest Utah Public Health Department (Utah)

SERIES: 14327
TITLE: Laboratory test results
DATES: 1972-
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by company name

DESCRIPTION: This record is used to assist in the collection of lab test results and to complete patient medical records and verifications of diagnoses. As stated in the Utah Code of Communicable Disease Rules, the Department of Health collects this information in order to protect the public health and protect and control disease. Includes reports such as Request for Serologic Test for Syphilis, Request for Culture of Enteric Bacterial Pathogens, Request for Referred Culture Identification, Report of Antibiotic Sensitivity, Request for Agglutinations and Special Serologic Tests, Request for Miscellaneous Cultures, Request for Rabies Examination, Request for Slide Examination, and Request for Mycobacteria Examination. The State Bureau of Epidemiology retains the record for five years and then destroys.

RETENTION

Retain for 4 year(s)

DISPOSITION

Destroy.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is proposed and has not yet been approved.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 4 years and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Exempt. UCA 26-25a-101 (2008)

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