Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DoDSER) Data Quality Assessment

Abstract

The Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DoDSER) is the system of record for health surveillance related to suicide ideations, attempts, and deaths. This assessment focused on decreasing the number of don t know responses on suicide death submissions by identifying changes to policy, training, or oversight. We also examined the sharing of DoD medical information with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). We identified seven topics for DoDSER submissions improvement: DoDSERs are submitted prematurely, DoDSER data collection is stovepiped, technical questions presented challenges for non-technical DoDSER submitters, user/commander feedback on DoDSER data is limited, Military Crisis Line staff lacks access to relevant military healthcare information, DoDSER data is not shared with the VA, and Military Criminal Investigative Organizations participation in the DoDSER process is inconsistent.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 14, 2014
Accession Number
ADA612492

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Criminal Investigations
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Law Enforcement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Health
  • Statistical Samples
  • United States

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.