Projection of Patient Condition Code Distributions for Naval Combat Deployments

Abstract

Projection of the wounded-in-action and disease/nonbattle injury incidence in terms of patient condition (PC) codes is essential to the programming of medical resources needed to support military engagements. Utilizing empirical disease and injury data from naval deployments during both peacetime and combat conditions, estimates of the PC codes were derived. The wounded in action (WIA) methodology first partitioned the empirical data into traumatism and anatomical location categories, and then mapped these combinations into PC codes. The non-battle injury (NBI) PC methodology was similar to the WIA methodology except that the projections were extended to two more categories of traumatism; Environmental and Miscellaneous NBI. The Disease PC methodology entailed first mapping the empirical disease distributions into PC clusters and then distributing this incidence into individual PC codes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 06, 1999
Accession Number
ADA374981

Entities

People

  • C. G. Blood
  • J. M. Zouris
  • Satpreet H. Singh

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bites And Stings
  • Bone Fractures
  • Debridement
  • Disability Administration
  • Health Services
  • Insect Bites And Stings
  • Medical Personnel
  • Wounds And Injuries

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Trauma or Military Medicine