Medical Surveillance and Reporting Flashcards
Medical Surveillance and Reporting
Purpose: Provides basic medical surveillance procedures and reporting requirements for all navy medical department personnel at the tactical /unit level to enable them to execute their basic regulatory duties
NMCPHC-TM 6220.12
Reportable medical event (RME)
Syndromic and categorical injury surveillance and reporting
Types of surveillance and reporting
Disease or etiologic agent specific, which may pose an inherent, significant threat to public health and military operations
Reportable medical event
Involves monitoring the incidence of specific pre-diagnostic syndromes and injuries occurring in specific populations to identify important clusters of disease/injury at the earliest time possible
Syndromic and categorical injury surveillance