Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR). Volume 4, Number 8, December 1998
Abstract
For the past two years, the AMSA has periodically assessed the completeness and timeliness of reporting of notifiable medical events by comparing hospitalizations of active duty soldiers for presumed reportable conditions with reports submitted through the Army's automated reporting system. This report updates the assessment of Army performance through June 1998. In addition, this report describes major enhancements to DoD and service-specific notifiable medical events surveillance efforts and introduces procedures for assessing the reporting of notifiable medical events that are managed in outpatient settings. Tri-service list of reportable medical events: In 1997, the DoD's Joint Preventive Medicine Policy Group endorsed the need for a tri-service consensus list of reportable medical events. During the latter half of 1997, public health officers representing each of the services established the following criteria for reportable medical events: first, the event must have a clear case definition and a single code in the International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision (ICD-9-CM); second, for each reportable event, an intervention must be available and/or a public health response must be indicated; third, a sufficient and timely source of the required information must not already exist; and fourth, the event must represent an inherent and significant public health (i.e., potential to affect large numbers of people, to be widely transmitted within a population, or to have severe clinical manifestations) and/ or military operational (i.e., potential to disrupt military training, deployment, or operations) threat, and/or the event must be commonly reportable by state or federal laws, regulations, or guidelines. Seventy medical events that met these preestablished criteria were included in the Tri-Service consensus list of reportable medical events (table 1).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA497196
Entities
People
- John Brundage
- Kimmie Kohlhase
- Mark V Rubertone
Organizations
- Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center