Accession Number:

ADA564948

Title:

Hospitalizations Among Members of the Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2011

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMED FORCES HEALTH SURVEILLANCE CENTER SILVER SPRING MD

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

2012-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

This report documents the frequencies,rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalizations of active component members of the U.S. Armed Forces during calendar year 2011. Summaries are based on standardized records of hospitalizations at U.S. military and non-military reimbursed care medical facilities worldwide. For this report, primary first-listed discharge diagnoses are considered indicative of the primary reasons for hospitalizationssummaries are based on the fi rst three digits of ICD-9-CM codes used to report primary discharge diagnoses. Hospitalizations not routinely documented with standardized, automated records e.g. during deployments, field training exercises,shipboard are not centrally available for health surveillance purposes and thus are not included in this report.

Descriptors:

• *HOSPITALIZATIONS
• *MEDICAL PERSONNEL
• *MEDICAL SERVICES
• *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• AUTOMATION
• DISTRIBUTION
• HEALTH
• PATTERNS
• RECORDS
• REPORTS
• SURVEILLANCE

Subject Categories:

• Personnel Management and Labor Relations
• Medicine and Medical Research
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE