Establishes confidentiality and privilege for continuous quality improvement activities by prehospital clinicians in South Carolina.
This bill amends the South Carolina Code to add Article 9 to Chapter 61, Title 44, establishing continuous quality improvement programs for prehospital clinicians. It ensures that activities, records, reports, data, and proceedings related to these programs are privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure. Immunity from civil or criminal liability is granted for participants in good faith, except in cases of willful misconduct or gross negligence. Unauthorized disclosure of this information is subject to penalties.
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