NMCPHC-TM 6220.12, Medical Surveillance and Reporting

Question 1

Which reference defines medical surveillance?

Answer 1

DoD Directive 6490.02E

Question 2

What are the two types of surveillance and reporting covered this manual?

Answer 2

Reportable Medical Event (RME); Syndromic and Categorical injury

Question 3

Which type of events, usually disease or etiologic agent specific, may pose an inherent, significant threat to public health and military operations?

Answer 3

Reportable Medical Event (RME)

Question 4

What have the potential to affect large numbers of people, to be widely transmitted within a population, to have severe/life threatening clinical manifestations, and/or disrupt military training and deployment?

Answer 4

Reportable Medical Event (RME)

Question 5

What publishes the agreed upon Reportable Medical Events (RME) list along with specific case definitions as the Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events Guidelines and Case Definitions?

Answer 5

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

Question 6

Reportable Medical Events (RMEs) are commonly referred to as?

Answer 6

Medical Event Reports (MERs)

Question 7

Which instruction requires any medical event that meets the case definition of a reportable event to be reported

Answer 7

BUMEDINST 6220.12

Question 8

When submitting Medical Event Reports (MERs) of outbreaks or disease clusters, reporters need not include identifying information about individual patients or file a MER for each individual case unless instructed by who?

Answer 8

Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit (NEPMU)

Question 9

Urgent medical event reports are required within how many hours for some events?

Answer 9

24 hours

Question 10

How many calendar days must routine reports for all non-urgent medical events be submitted after their identification?

Answer 10

7 days

Question 11

What is the Navy’s official system to submit, view and track Medical Event Reports?

Answer 11

Disease Reporting System Internet (DRSi)

Question 12

If reporters are affected by connectivity limitations, Medical Event Reports (MERs) may be made by what communication means?

Answer 12

Phone, naval message, or e-mail to the nearest Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit (NEPMU)

Question 13

For the prevention of disease and reporting of communicable disease, regulations promulgated by the Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy’s Manual of the Medical Department mandate that all Navy Medical Officers will cooperate with the what agencies?

Answer 13

Public Health Services and other Federal, State, and local agencies

Question 14

Which type of surveillance involves monitoring the incidence of specific pre-diagnostic syndromes and injury occurring in specific populations to identify important clusters of disease/injury at the earliest time possible?

Answer 14

Syndromic and Categorical Injury Surveillance

Question 15

Syndromic and Categorical Injury Surveillance is also known as?

Answer 15

Disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) surveillance

Question 16

Base off of new guidance Disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) surveillance is imply referred to as?

Answer 16

D&I surveillance

Question 17

What is performed either electronically or manually depending on a unit’s ability to complete and transmit healthcare encounter records to central Military Health System (MHS) data repositories?

Answer 17

D&I surveillance

Question 18

What is the preferred D&I surveillance and reporting method that involves the analysis and monitoring of D&I related information stored in Military Health System (MHS) data repositories with the aid of analytic systems such as Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE), the Joint Medical Workstation, or the Theater Medical Data Store web interface?

Answer 18

Electronic D&I Surveillance and Report method

Question 19

Which program will be used to compile and submit manual reports of their unit’s D&I information to the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC)?

Answer 19

Microsoft Excel

Question 20

For manual reporting, how will you name the Microsoft (MS) Excel spreadsheet file before submitting your weekly report?

Answer 20

unitname.xls

Question 21

In general, the classification of Medical Event Reports (MERs) are considered?

Answer 21

unclassified

Question 22

Before releasing the report, reports who are concerned that a the report from their unit might have an adverse impact on their unit’s operational security or our national security should consult who for report classification?

Answer 22

Information Security/CO

Question 23

All Medical Event Reports (MERs) and D&I reports contain sensitive medical information, so all reports made through email should be?

Answer 23

Digitally signed and encrypted

Question 24

What are the Navy’s primary consultative resource for disease/outbreak confirmation and response assistance including implementation of prevention and control measures?

Answer 24

Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Units (NEPMUs)