Terms Used In Maryland Code, HEALTH - GENERAL 13-1201

  • County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Data use agreement” means an agreement between the Department and a national, State, or local agency or program that establishes the terms and conditions for the confidential submission, collection, storage, analysis, reporting, aggregation, and dissemination of de-identified data obtained from the Maternal Mortality Review Program.

(c) “Local team” means the multidisciplinary and multiagency maternal mortality review team established for a county.

(d) “Maternal death” means the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 1 year after the woman ceases to be pregnant.

(e) “Maternal mortality review committee” means the maternal mortality review committee of MedChi that is a medical review committee, as defined under § 1-401 of the Health Occupations Article.

(f) “MedChi” means the Maryland State Medical Society.