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Accession Number:
ADA331438
Title:
Medical Diagnoses in Operations Other Than War(OOTW): Relationship to DEPMEDS Patient Conditions.
Descriptive Note:
Interim rept. Jan-Sep 97,
Corporate Author:
NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
Report Date:
1997-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
26.0
Abstract:
Military medical requirements are based on Deployable Medical Systems DEPMEDS, a Department of Defense initiative which projects and deploys medical materiel to theaters of operations. An upward trend in operations other than war OOTW, such as peacekeeping and humanitarian missions, has been fostered by changes in US military strategy and global politics as a result, medical practitioners may encounter injuries and diseases that differ from those typically seen in combat operations. A set of 5806 outpatient diagnoses, collected from a triservice field hospital in Zagreb, Croatia during a multinational peacekeeping mission, were coded according to the international Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision ICD-9. They were then mapped to corresponding DEPMEDS patient condition PC codes. Diagnoses that did not map to PC codes were examined to determine how to expand DEPMEDS to account for them in the planning process. Approximately 62 of the diagnoses n3593 mapped to an existing DEPMEDS PC. Respiratory diseases mapped most often, with only 25 of 1095 occurrences 2.28 remaining unmatched. The remaining 38 of diagnoses n2213 could not be mapped. Injury was the largest category, both in frequency n1916 and in number and proportion n665, 30.04 of unmatched cases. Among other classifications, more than 50 of musculoskeletal, circulatory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and infectious disorders were unmapped.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
