Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 50 > Chapter 6 > Part 4 - State Trauma Care System

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Department: means the department of public health and human services provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 22. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Emergency medical service: means an emergency medical service as defined by 50-6-302. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• facility: means a hospital, critical access hospital, or medical assistance facility as defined in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Hospital trauma register: means patient-specific trauma data that is maintained by a health care facility, in a format prescribed by department rule, and that has the primary purpose of facilitating peer review and quality improvement at the health care facility. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Quality improvement: means the process of defining trauma care system performance standards, collecting data against which the standards may be applied, using the data to determine compliance with the standards, and using the data and compliance information in a nonpunitive manner, including peer review, that will continuously improve performance and facilitate compliance with the standards. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• State trauma register: means trauma data relating to a specific patient or health care facility that is maintained by the department in an electronic format and that has the primary purpose of facilitating peer review and quality improvement for a health care facility or a trauma care system. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Trauma: means a severe, abrupt injury to the human body that is caused by mechanical, environmental, thermal, or other physical force. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Trauma care committee: means the trauma care committee created in 2-15-2216. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Trauma care system: means a state or regional system for the prevention of trauma and the provision of optimal medical care to trauma victims that includes both provision of appropriate health care services and provision of emergency medical care, equipment, and personnel for effective and coordinated prehospital, hospital, interhospital, and rehabilitative care for trauma patients. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Trauma facility: means a health care facility designated by the department pursuant to 50-6-410 as providing a specialized program in trauma care with appropriately trained personnel, equipment, and other facility resources that are specifically organized to provide optimal care to a trauma patient at the facility. See Montana Code 50-6-401
• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203