Shipboard Medical Admissions during Peacetime and Combat Support Deployments.
Abstract
To assist in medical requirements determinations, the shipboard casualty projection system, SHlPCAS, provides projections of the number of wounded-in-action (WIA) and disease and nonbattle injuries (DNBI) likely to be sustained on board U.S. Navy ships during combat operations. More accurate forecasts of theater medical requirements can be obtained by combining the projected DNBI and WIA incidence rates with the expected illness category distributions of the patient streams. The present investigation seeks to improve theater medical resource requirement projections by providing medical planners with information on the types of illnesses likely to be incurred aboard ships in combat support operations and in different operational theaters.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA359357
Entities
People
- B. R. Dererian
- C. G. Blood
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center