BUMEDINST 6220.12A - Medical Event Reports Flashcards
A successful communicable disease and injury control program depends on what?
Early notification of diseases
What will the Medical Event Reports (MERs) replace?
Disease Alert Reports
What may generate inquiries to the Chief, Bureau Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) or higher authority?
Medical Event Reports (MERs)
Who’s responsibilities are to maintain an effective command medical event surveillance program and to submit an OPREP-3 NAVY BLUE message when a medical event may attract high level Navy interest or affect operational readiness?
Commanders, commanding officers, OICs, or masters of MSC ship
Who’s responsibility is it to submit MERs using Naval Disease Reporting System (NDRS) and contraction of HIV?
Unit senior medical department representatives
HIV Infections report form
CDC Form 50.42A
What must accompany the member upon transfer to a new command?
The Medical Event Report (MER)
Who must submit a final MER?
If a member is transferred?
The originating command.
The receiving facility must file an MER
What are the authorized reporting procedures?
Naval Disease Reporting System (NDRS) software program, naval message or naval letter, and email or phone the cognizant NAVENPVNTMEDU.
How many years does the Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit (NAVENPVNTMEDU) keep MERs on file?
5 years
What is the Medical Event Report control symbol?
MED 6220-3
Who is the primary action addressee on MERs?
The cognizant NAVENPVNTMEDU
How should an operational unit send an urgent MER?
Unclassified message
If message is classified, what must be included?
As much information as possible designated unclassified
What type of report is most common and must be submitted no later than the 1st of each month to the NAVENPVNTMEDU and then to the NAVENVIRHLTHCEN no later than the 15th of each month?
Routine reports
