Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1709

patients - Restrictions - Exemption from liability - Review

committees.

Any authorized person, hospital, sanatorium, nursing home or

rest home, or other organization may provide information,

interviews, reports, statements, memoranda or other data relating to

the condition and treatment of any person to any of the following

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for use in the course of studies for the purpose of reducing

morbidity or mortality: The State Board of Health; the Oklahoma

State Medical Association, or any committee or allied society

thereof; the American Medical Association, or other national

organization approved by the State Board of Health, or any committee

or allied medical society thereof; any in-hospital staff committee;

or a city-county health department. No liability for damages or

other relief shall arise or be enforced against any authorized

person, institution or organization by reason of having provided

such information or material, or by reason of having released or

published the findings and conclusions of such groups to advance

medical research and medical education, or by reason of having

released or published generally a summary of such studies. The

recipients shall use or publish such information or material only

for the purpose of advancing medical research or medical education

in the interest of reducing morbidity or mortality, except that a

summary of such studies may be released by any such group for

general publication. In all events, the identity of any person

whose condition or treatment has been studied shall be confidential

and shall not be revealed under any circumstances. Any information

furnished shall not contain the name of the person upon whom

information is furnished and shall not violate the confidential

relationship of patient and doctor. All information, interviews,

reports, statements, memoranda, or other data furnished by reason of

this section, and any findings or conclusions resulting from such

studies, are declared to be privileged communications which may not

be used or offered or received in evidence in any legal proceeding

of any kind or character, and any attempt to use or offer any such

information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda or other

data, findings or conclusions, or any part thereof, unless waived by

the interested parties, shall constitute prejudicial error in any

such proceeding. Physicians and others appointed to hospital

utilization review committees for the purpose of determining the

optimum use of hospital services shall be immune from liability with

respect to decisions made as to such utilization and actions

thereunder so long as such physicians or others act in good faith;

provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed

to relieve any patient's personal physician of any liability which

he may have in connection with the treatment of such patient.