Sec. 254.2. "Objective scientific information", for purposes of IC 16-34, means data that have been reasonably derived from scientific literature and verified or supported by research in compliance with scientific methods.
As added by P.L.193-2011, SEC.3.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 18. General Provisions and Definitions
16-18-2-1.5. "Abortion Clinic"
16-18-2-1.6. "Abortion Inducing Drug"
16-18-2-1.7. "Abortion Complication"
16-18-2-1.8. "Additional Forensic Services"
16-18-2-2. "Adjustment and Incentive Support"
16-18-2-3. "Administrative Adjudication, Decision, or Order"
16-18-2-5.5. "Adult Stem Cell"
16-18-2-6.1. "Advance Directive"
16-18-2-6.5. "Advanced Emergency Medical Technician"
16-18-2-7. "Advanced Life Support"
16-18-2-7.3. "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Last in Attendance"
16-18-2-11. "Agricultural Labor Camp"
16-18-2-12. "Alcohol and Drug Abuse Records"
16-18-2-13.4. "Ambulance Service" or "Ambulance Services"
16-18-2-14. "Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Center"
16-18-2-14-b. "Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Center"
16-18-2-15. "Anabolic Steroid"
16-18-2-17.2. "Anatomic Pathology Service"
16-18-2-18.5. "Any Other Disability"
16-18-2-20. "Appropriate Facility"
16-18-2-22. "Approved Postsecondary Educational Institution"
16-18-2-23. "Approved Laboratory"
16-18-2-24. "Armed Forces of the United States"
16-18-2-25. "Artificial Insemination"
16-18-2-27.5. "At Home Care Plan"
16-18-2-28.5. "Attendant Care Services"
16-18-2-29. "Attending Physician"
16-18-2-30.2. "Autism Spectrum Disorder"
16-18-2-31. "Autologous Donation"
16-18-2-33.5. "Basic Life Support"
16-18-2-34. "Bed and Breakfast Establishments"
16-18-2-35.5. "Best Interests"
16-18-2-35.8. "Biological Product"
16-18-2-36.5. "Birthing Center"
16-18-2-37.7. "Board of Commissioners"
16-18-2-37.8. "Board of Trustees"
16-18-2-38. "Branch Locker Plant"
16-18-2-48.5. "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation or Cpr"
16-18-2-51.5. "Certified Food Protection Manager"
16-18-2-52. "Certificate" or "Certification"
16-18-2-52.2. "Certificate of Free Sale"
16-18-2-52.5. "Charity Care"; "Financially Indigent"; "Medically Indigent"
16-18-2-54.5. "Childhood Hazards"
16-18-2-54.7. "Child-Occupied Facility"
16-18-2-55.5. "Chronic Disease"
16-18-2-56. "City Health Department"
16-18-2-56.2. "Clearance Examination"
16-18-2-58. "Cold Storage Warehouse"
16-18-2-64. "Communicable Disease"
16-18-2-64.5. "Community Benefits"
16-18-2-64.6. "Community Based Palliative Care"
16-18-2-65. "Community Health Services"
16-18-2-66. "Community or Migrant Health Center"
16-18-2-66.5. "Competent Witness"
16-18-2-67. "Comprehensive Care Bed"
16-18-2-67.1. "Comprehensive Care Health Facility"
16-18-2-67.5. "Comprehensive Plan"
16-18-2-68. "Confirmatory Test"
16-18-2-69.2. "Consumer Product"
16-18-2-69.3. "Continuing Care Retirement Community"
16-18-2-69.4. "Contractual Allowances"
16-18-2-70. "Construct, Erect, or Build"
16-18-2-70.1. "Construction Project"
16-18-2-72. "Consumer Commodity"
16-18-2-74. "Contaminated Sharp"
16-18-2-75. "Contaminated With Filth"
16-18-2-76. "Contracting County"
16-18-2-77. "Contributing County"
16-18-2-78. "Controlled Premises"
16-18-2-79. "Controlled Substance"
16-18-2-82.8. "Cost of Receivership"
16-18-2-83. "Cost of Construction"
16-18-2-85. "Counterfeit Drug"
16-18-2-86.5. "County Council"
16-18-2-87. "County Health Fund"
16-18-2-88. "County of Residence of the Child"
16-18-2-88.2. "Covered Entity"
16-18-2-88.5. "Crime of Domestic or Sexual Violence"
16-18-2-91.3. "Data Aggregation"
16-18-2-92.3. "De-Identified Maximum Negotiated Charge"; "De-Identified Minimum Negotiated Charge"
16-18-2-93. "Designated Health Official"
16-18-2-95. "Directed Donation"
16-18-2-96.1. "Discounted Cash Price"
16-18-2-96.4. "Dismemberment Abortion"
16-18-2-96.5. "Distributed for Use"
16-18-2-98. "Division Director and Director of a Division"
16-18-2-100. "Donor Insemination"
16-18-2-100.5. "Down Syndrome"
16-18-2-104.5. "Education Related Costs"
16-18-2-105. "Effective Treatment"
16-18-2-106. "Electronic Products"
16-18-2-106.2. "Electronic Record"
16-18-2-106.3. "Electronic Signature"
16-18-2-106.4. "Electronically Transmitted and Electronic Transmission"
16-18-2-106.5. "Eligible Medical Condition"
16-18-2-106.6. "Elevated Blood Lead Level"
16-18-2-107. "Emergency Ambulance Services"
16-18-2-109.1. "Emergency Medical Dispatch Agency"
16-18-2-109.5. "Emergency Medical Dispatching"
16-18-2-109.8. "Emergency Medical Responder"
16-18-2-110. "Emergency Medical Services"
16-18-2-111. "Emergency Medical Service Facility"
16-18-2-112. "Emergency Medical Technician"
16-18-2-113. "Emergency Patient"
16-18-2-114.6. "Encapsulation"
16-18-2-114.8. "Enforcement Action"
16-18-2-116. "Environmental Commissioner"
16-18-2-116.2. "Environmental Investigation"
16-18-2-116.4. "Environmental Rules Board"
16-18-2-117. "Established Name"
16-18-2-120. "Executive Board"
16-18-2-121. "Executive Director"
16-18-2-121.3. "Expanded Criminal History Check"
16-18-2-121.5. "Extended Length of Stay"
16-18-2-121.6. "Eyelash Extensions"
16-18-2-126. "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
16-18-2-127. "Federal Meat Inspection Act"
16-18-2-128. "Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act"
16-18-2-128.3. "Fertilization"
16-18-2-128.5. "Fetal Stem Cell"
16-18-2-129. "Filling Material"
16-18-2-130. "Financial Institution"
16-18-2-137. "Food Establishment"
16-18-2-138.2. "Food Handling Machinery"
16-18-2-138.5. "Food Instrument"
16-18-2-139. "Food Service Establishment"
16-18-2-139.5. "Forensic Medical Exam"
16-18-2-140. "Foundation Support"
16-18-2-145. "General Hospital"
16-18-2-146. "General Hospital Services"
16-18-2-148. "Generically Equivalent Drug Product"
16-18-2-149. "Governing Board"
16-18-2-150.4. "Government Sponsored Indigent Health Care"
16-18-2-151. "Governmental Unit"
16-18-2-153.7. "Grant Program"
16-18-2-154. "Gross Patient Revenue"
16-18-2-159.1. "Health Benefit Plan"
16-18-2-160.3. "Health Care Decision"
16-18-2-160.5. "Health Care Entity"
16-18-2-161. "Health Care Facility"
16-18-2-161.5. "Health Care Interpreter"
16-18-2-162. "Health Care Professional"
16-18-2-163. "Health Care Provider"
16-18-2-163-b. "Health Care Provider"
16-18-2-163.3. "Health Care Quality Indicator Data"
16-18-2-163.4. "Health Care Representative"
16-18-2-163.5. "Health Care Translator"
16-18-2-164.6. "Health Coverage Provider"
16-18-2-166. "Health Directive"
16-18-2-167. "Health Facility"
16-18-2-167.5. "Health Information"
16-18-2-168.5. "Health System"
16-18-2-170. "High Risk Activity"
16-18-2-173. "Home Health Agency"
16-18-2-174. "Home Health Aide"
16-18-2-175. "Home Health Aide Services"
16-18-2-176. "Home Health Services"
16-18-2-177.2. "Hospice Program"
16-18-2-177.3. "Hospice Program Patient"
16-18-2-177.4. "Hospice Services"
16-18-2-180. "Hospital Based Health Facility"
16-18-2-181. "Hospital Fund or Hospital Funds"
16-18-2-182. "Hospital Purposes"
16-18-2-183.2. "Human Cells, Tissues, or Cellular or Tissue-Based Products"
16-18-2-186. "Immediate Container"
16-18-2-186.3. "Immunization Passport"
16-18-2-186.4. "Immunization Status"
16-18-2-186.5. "Incapacity"; "Incapacitated"
16-18-2-187.2. "Incremental Fee"
16-18-2-187.5. "Indiana Birth Registration System"
16-18-2-187.6. "Indiana Death Registration System"
16-18-2-187.8. "Indiana Governmental Entity"
16-18-2-188.1. "Indiana University Hospitals"
16-18-2-188.3. "Individual With a Communicable Disease"
16-18-2-188.5. "Individual With a Disability"
16-18-2-188.7. "Industrialized Residential Structure"
16-18-2-189. "Infectious Waste"
16-18-2-190. "Informed Consent"
16-18-2-191.2. "Interchangeable"
16-18-2-191.5. "Interdisciplinary Team"
16-18-2-192. "Intrastate Commerce"
16-18-2-193. "Invasive Medical Care"
16-18-2-193.5. "Investigational Drug"
16-18-2-194. "Investigational or New Drug"
16-18-2-194.7. "Item or Service"
16-18-2-198.3. "Lay Caregiver"
16-18-2-198.5. "Lead-Based Paint"
16-18-2-198.7. "Lead-Based Paint Activities"
16-18-2-200. "Legislative Body"
16-18-2-201.5. "Lethal Fetal Anomaly"
16-18-2-202. "Licensed Physician"
16-18-2-203. "Life Prolonging Procedure"
16-18-2-204. "Life Prolonging Procedures Will Declarant"
16-18-2-205. "Live Birth or Birth"
16-18-2-208. "Living Will Declarant"
16-18-2-210. "Local Board of Health"
16-18-2-210.5. "Local Fetal-Infant Mortality Review Team"
16-18-2-211. "Local Health Department"
16-18-2-212. "Local Health Officer"
16-18-2-214.9. "Mandatory Reporter"
16-18-2-215.5. "Manufactured Home"
16-18-2-218. "Maternal and Child Health Clinic"
16-18-2-218.3. "Maternal Morbidity"
16-18-2-218.5. "Maternal Mortality"
16-18-2-220. "Maternity Home Operator"
16-18-2-223. "Mechanical Device"
16-18-2-223.4. "Medical Center"
16-18-2-223.5. "Medical Emergency"
16-18-2-223.6. "Medical Director"
16-18-2-223.7. "Medically Contraindicated"
16-18-2-224.1. "Medication Assisted Treatment"
16-18-2-225. "Member of the Armed Forces"
16-18-2-225.8. "Mental Health Provider"
16-18-2-226. "Mental Health Records"
16-18-2-226.2. "Merger"; "Merger Agreement"
16-18-2-226.5. "Micro Market Display"
16-18-2-227. "Migratory Temporary Increase in Population"
16-18-2-230.5. "Military Service Applicant"
16-18-2-237.1. "Miscarried Fetus"
16-18-2-238.5. "Mobile Home Community"
16-18-2-239.2. "Mobile Integrated Healthcare"
16-18-2-242. "Motor Fuel Outlet"
16-18-2-243. "Municipal Corporation"
16-18-2-244. "Narrative Report"
16-18-2-244.5. "National Criminal History Background Check"
16-18-2-244.8. "Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome" and "Nas"
16-18-2-245. "Net Operating Revenue"
16-18-2-246. "Net Patient Revenue"
16-18-2-250. "Noncompliant Behavior"
16-18-2-251. "Nonprofit Hospital"
16-18-2-252. "Nonprofit Hospital Corporation"
16-18-2-253.2. "Nonresidential Onsite Sewage System"
16-18-2-253.5. "Nontransporting Emergency Medical Services Vehicle"
16-18-2-253.6. Nsf/ansi Standards
16-18-2-253.7. "Nursing Facility"
16-18-2-253.8. "Notarial Officer"
16-18-2-254.2. "Objective Scientific Information"
16-18-2-256. "Official Compendium"
16-18-2-263.5. "Onsite Residential Sewage Discharging Disposal System"
16-18-2-263.6. "Onsite Sewage System"
16-18-2-263.9. "Overdose Intervention Drug"
16-18-2-264.1. "Operational Canine"
16-18-2-264.5. "Other Unlicensed Employee"
16-18-2-264.7. "Out of Hospital"
16-18-2-264.8. "Out of Hospital Dnr Declaration and Order"
16-18-2-264.9. "Out of Hospital Dnr Identification Device"
16-18-2-265.5. "Palliative Care"
16-18-2-266.4. "Parent or Legal Guardian or Custodian"
16-18-2-266.5. "Parent Personal Services Agency"
16-18-2-267. "Parental Consent"
16-18-2-267.5. "Partial Birth Abortion"
16-18-2-268. "Partnership Responsibility"
16-18-2-271. "Pathological Waste"
16-18-2-272.5. "Payer-Specific Negotiated Charge"
16-18-2-273.5. "Perinatal Hospice"
16-18-2-276. "Person in Attendance at Birth"
16-18-2-277. "Person in Charge of Interment"
16-18-2-277.5. "Person With a Disability"
16-18-2-277.6. "Personal Representative"
16-18-2-277.7. "Personal Services"
16-18-2-277.8. "Personal Services Agency"
16-18-2-277.9. "Personal Information"
16-18-2-279. "Pesticide Chemical"
16-18-2-280. "Petroleum Products"
16-18-2-281.5. "Phase Out Period"
16-18-2-282.1. "Physician Assistant Last in Attendance"
16-18-2-282.2. "Physician Last in Attendance"
16-18-2-287.5. "Postfertilization Age"
16-18-2-287.7. "Post-Organ Transplant Program"
16-18-2-287.8. "Potentially Hazardous Food Product"
16-18-2-287.9. "Potential Diagnosis"
16-18-2-292.5. "Primary Caregiver"
16-18-2-292.7. "Primary Prevention"
16-18-2-293. "Principal Display Panel"
16-18-2-293.3. "Presence"; "Present"; "To Be Present"
16-18-2-293.5. "Probable Gestational Age of the Fetus"
16-18-2-296. "Provider Organization"
16-18-2-296.3. "Psychiatric Advance Directive"
16-18-2-297. "Public Accommodation"
16-18-2-298.5. "Public Health Authority"
16-18-2-299.1. "Publicly Owned Treatment Works"
16-18-2-301. "Publish"; "Published"; "Cause to Be Published"
16-18-2-301.7. "Qualified Entity"
16-18-2-302. "Qualified Patient"
16-18-2-302.3. "Qualified Person"
16-18-2-302.5. "Qualified Recipient"
16-18-2-304. "Radiation Machine"
16-18-2-306. "Radioactive Material"
16-18-2-306.7. "Rape or Incest"
16-18-2-308. "Real Property or Land"
16-18-2-308.2. "Reasonably Available"
16-18-2-308.5. "Recognized Accrediting Organization"
16-18-2-312. "Recording Officer"
16-18-2-313. "Reduction in License"
16-18-2-316.6. "Replacement Facility"
16-18-2-317.3. "Reproductive Health Care Facility"
16-18-2-317.7. "Residential Care Facility"
16-18-2-317.8. "Residential Onsite Sewage System"
16-18-2-318. "Responsible Head"
16-18-2-324.7. "Second Opinion"
16-18-2-326.5. "Secured Storage"
16-18-2-327.5. "Serious Communicable Disease"
16-18-2-327.9. "Serious Health Risk"
16-18-2-327.9-b. "Serious Health Risk"
16-18-2-328. "Serious and Present Risk to the Health of Others"
16-18-2-328.2. "Service Animal"
16-18-2-328.3. "Sexual Assault Examination Kit"
16-18-2-328.4. "Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner"
16-18-2-328.5. "Shaken Baby Syndrome"
16-18-2-328.6. "Sex Selective Abortion"
16-18-2-331.8. "Small Employer"
16-18-2-331.9. "Small House Health Facility"
16-18-2-337. "Sponsoring or Supervising Hospital"
16-18-2-337.5. "Standard Charge"
16-18-2-337.8. "Standard Licensed Diagnostic Test for Hiv"
16-18-2-338. "Standard Serological Test for Syphilis"
16-18-2-338.3. "Standing Order"
16-18-2-338.5. "State Authority"
16-18-2-339. "State Department"
16-18-2-340. "State Health Commissioner"; "Commissioner"
16-18-2-342. "Storage Facility"
16-18-2-342.4. "Subsidized Health Services"
16-18-2-346.3. "Target Housing"
16-18-2-348.7. "Telephonic Interaction"
16-18-2-349. "Temporary Residence"
16-18-2-351. "Terminal Condition"
16-18-2-351.5. "Terminal Illness"
16-18-2-352.5. "Total Comprehensive Care Bed Days Available at Comprehensive Care Health Facilities"
16-18-2-352.7. "Total Statewide Inpatient Days"
16-18-2-353.5. "Training or Educational Purposes"
16-18-2-354. "Transfer Station"
16-18-2-354.8. "Treating Physician"
16-18-2-358. "Unfit for Human Habitation"
16-18-2-360. "Universal Precautions"
16-18-2-361. "Unnecessary Radiation"
16-18-2-362.1. "Urgent Care Facility"
16-18-2-363.3. "Vending Machine"
16-18-2-366. "Vital Statistics"
16-18-2-367. "Volunteer Fire Department"
16-18-2-368. "Volunteer Firefighter"
16-18-2-370. "Waste Blood Specimen"
16-18-2-376. "Wic Participant"
16-18-2-378. "Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program"