Projection of Patient Condition Code Distributions for Military Personnel During Nonconventional Operations
Abstract
United States forces are increasingly being tasked to respond to nontraditional operations, such as humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping, or peace enforcement. Peacekeeping operations, particularly those conducted under the support of the United Nations Charter, have become more common in the post-Cold War world, as evidenced by deployment to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. In many cases these deployments are subsuming traditional military operations. To ensure successful medical support for these operations, medical planners and logisticians need to program the needed supplies, equipment, and staff to meet the diverse challenges of the mission at hand. Estimates of the likely distribution of medical admissions by patient condition code are a key component in ensuring adequate resources to meet the medical needs of these operations. Use of empirical medical data from recent peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations, when supplemented with peacetime data from regional treatment facilities and data detailing admissions during previous conventional combat operations, provides a baseline for projecting disease and injury distributions for future nonconventional scenarios.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 10, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA387115
Entities
People
- Christopher G. Blood
- Gregory J. Walker
- James M. Zouris
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center