6-19 Medical Event Report and Disease & Injury Report Flashcards
What are the primary objectives of Medical Event Reports?
- Enables navy public health experts to be aware of:
- -important medical events
- -prevention/control actions
- -impact to affecting large numbers of people
- enables navy public health experts to be proactive
Findings of MERs shall be reported to?
cognizant NEPMU
Who is the primary consultant resource for MERs
NEPMU
What is the official system to capture, store, and communicate information related to RMEs?
Disease Reporting System internet (DRSi)
When internet is unavailable, MER routine reports should be submitted to?
Nearest NEPMU by U.S. mail
Where can you find the report format for the MER?
Appendix D of the NMCPHC-TM-PM- 6220.12
What is the NMCPHC-TM-PM 6220.12
Medical surveillance and medical event reporting
Urgent reports may be made by:
- phone
- priority naval message
- encrypted mail
Urgent MERs must be submitted within?
Routine?
- 24 hours
- no later than 7 calendar days after their identification
Which communicable diseases are required to be reported within 24 hours?
** 16 of them**
A,B,D,H,I,M,M,M,O,P,P,R,S,S,T,T
- anthrax
- botulism
- diphtheria
- hemorrhagic fever
- influenza A
- malaria
- measles
- meningococcal
- outbreak/disease cluster
- plague
- poliomyelitis
- rabies
- SARS
- smallpox
- TB, pulmonary
- tularemia
What are the incidences requiring submission of MERs?
- any diagnosis on the RME list
- outbreaks
All MERs should be marked?
“For official use only”
Who is required to submit the MERs
the medical officer, command surgeon, of staff responsible for the health/treatment of that individual
Once a diagnosis, case, or event becomes reportable once it has been classified as?
- suspected
- probable
- confirmed
Involves monitoring the incident of specific pre-diagnostic syndromes and injuries occurring in a unit?
Disease and injury surveillance
