La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § V-8503
Confidential Data- shall include any information that pertains to an individual cancer case, as ordinarily distinguished from group, aggregate, or tabular data. Statistical totals of "0" or "1" may be deemed confidential, case-specific data. Confidential, case-specific data include, but are not limited to, primary or potential personal identifiers. In addition, in research involving data contained in the National Center for Health Statistics database, statistical totals of 5 or less are also deemed confidential data and are suppressed unless prior written consent of all of the affected respondents has been obtained in accordance with 42 U.S.C. § 242k(l); 5 U.S.C. §552(a); and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/staffmanual2004.pdf (p. 16).
Director -the director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry, who is appointed by the president of the Louisiana State University System.
Health Care Provider-every licensed health care facility and licensed health care provider, as defined in R.S. 40:1299.41(A)(10), in the state of Louisiana, as well as out-of-state facilities and providers that diagnose and/or treat Louisiana residents.
Follow-Up Information- information that is used to document outcome and survival for all types of cancer. The information includes, but is not limited to, patient identifiers, treatment, recurrence or progression, vital status, and date of last contact. If the patient is deceased, date of death and causes of death are included.
Health Care Provider- every licensed health care facility and licensed health care provider, as defined in R.S. 40:1231.1(A)(10), in the state of Louisiana, as well as out-of-state facilities and providers that diagnose and/or treat Louisiana residents.
Louisiana Tumor Registry/LTR-the program in Louisiana State University System that administers a population-based statewide cancer registry.
Regional Tumor Registry -an organization that is contracted with the Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) to provide in its region such services as: screening all possible sources to identify reportable cases, abstracting required information on all reportable cases, obtaining current follow-up information, editing data, performing quality assurance programs, training personnel from hospitals and other reporting facilities, and furnishing electronic records of acceptable quality to the LTR from all medical facilities and health care providers in the parishes assigned to that region.
La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § V-8503