Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR). Volume 3, Number 3, April 1997
Abstract
This issue marks the beginning of the MSMR's third year of reporting Army-wide medical surveillance information. Each April, the MSMR summarizes hospitalization and reportable disease experiences during the previous calendar year. In this anniversary issue, the MSMR introduces new disease and injury summaries that will be useful for tracking effects of Army disease and injury prevention and control programs. The Army requires central reporting of 97 diseases/conditions with public health or military operational significance (e.g., cases with command interest or requiring a public health response). The Army Medical Surveillance Activity has designated 23 of these as sentinel reportable diseases (SRDs). The SRDs were selected because they represent various modes of transmission and are reported with relatively high frequencies Army wide -- thus, time trend analyses are meaningful. Presentations of SRD incidence data are grouped by principal modes of transmission, including fecaloral, respiratory, sexual, arthropod, or by the main affected organ (e.g. liver, meninges). For all SRDs, comparisons of reports to date (current versus prior year) will be presented in the MSMR quarterly (see pages 19-21). Two-year time trends and tabular summaries of selected sexually transmitted diseases and seven of the most frequently reported SRDs will be published monthly (see pages 4-7). Clearly, frequencies and trends of reportable diseases are less meaningful when reporting is incomplete, inaccurate, or untimely. As an objective measure of reporting compliance, the AMSA analyzed the proportion of all "reportable" hospitalizations (as recorded in IPDS, the Army's central hospitalization database) that were reported through the MSS, the Army's automated disease reporting system. To track indicators of compliance with Army required disease reporting, semiannually the MSMR will publish rates and trends of reporting completeness.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA497664
Entities
People
- John Brundage
- Kimmie Kohlhase
- Mark V Rubertone
Organizations
- Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center