Hospital Admission Rates and Lengths of Treatment Among a Conus-Based Cohort of Navy Personnel
Abstract
This effort is to determine the number of individuals who may be unavailable on the eve of a hypothetical deployment due to disease and nonbattle injury (DNBI) hospital admissions. A Cohort of Navy personnel enlisting after the Fulg War (April 1991- December 1992) was defined using service history files maintained by Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego. The length of each service member's time in the Navy was determined from the service history files, and hospital admissions records for this cohort extracted from medical history files maintained by NHRC. Rates of DNBI incidence and mean lengths of treatment were computed for the overall cohort, and for men and women service members separately. The overall rate of hospitalization for the Navy cohort examined was 0.304 admissions per 1000 strength per day. The mean length of treatment was 5.32 days. Multiplying the admission rate times the mean length of treatment yields a medically infective' rate' of 1.62 individuals per 1000 strength per day. A substantial gender difference in hospitalization incidence did exist, due largely to female admissions for pregnancy-related conditions. Determination of the levels of training and cross-training of personnel on advanced technologies critical to mission success should take into consideration that two people per 1000 strength may be medically ineffective on any given day.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA419091
Entities
People
- Christopher G. Blood
- Gregory J. Walker
- Jinjin Zhang
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center