DoD Military Injury Metrics Working Group White Paper

Abstract

The DoD Military Injury Metrics Working Group was tasked in July 2002 to identify appropriate and standardized military injury metrics for the Department of Defense, to identify the best data sources for the metrics, to identify data gaps and limitations and develop recommendations, and to propose appropriate military injury metric reduction goals. Recommendations included four military injury metrics (injury case rate, lost day injury case rate, limited duty injury case rate, lost days rate), a target database, data gaps, injury reduction target metrics, a reduction target, injury reduction strategy, and next steps.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA596043

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Patient Care
  • Personnel Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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