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
What type of reports is submitted to the NAVENPVNTMEDU and Navy Environmental Health Center (NAVENVIRHLTHCEN) no later than 24 hours?
Urgent reports
What is submitted to the Immediate Superior In Command (ISIC), the cognizant NAVENPVNTMEDU, NAVENVIRHLTHCEN and BUMED (MED-24) when a medical event attracts high level Navy interest or affect operational readiness?
OPREP-3 NAVY BLUE message
What is the instruction for medical event reports?
BUMEDINST 6220.12A
A suspected outbreak among the military personnel is considered?
Urgent reportable medical event
At a minimum, how many years should MTF members be assigned essence monitoring responsibilities?
2 years
What tool is used to ascertain growth and spread of a particular syndromes?
Essence
How often does the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) evaluate the Navy Medical Event surveillance programs effectiveness?
Annually
