Medical Events Reported
Background
Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) is tasked by Bureau of Medicine (BUMED) INSTRUCTION 6220.12A to run the Navy's reportable medical events program. The Naval Disease Reporting System (NDRS) is the Navy's electronic notifiable medical event reporting system. Information on 70 Tri-Service reportable medical events and an additional 10 Navy required medical events are collected. Events are monitored by submission to NDRS from the Medical Training Facilities (MTFs) and Navy Environment Preventive Medicine Units (NEPMUs).
Objectives
- Analyze NDRS data for use in guiding policy decisions, guiding intervention planning, and setting priorities.
- Use existing electronic datasets to facilitate case finding and case confirmation with regard to events of public health significance
- Assess existing electronic datasets to see how we can use them to streamline reporting requirements at the local level
- Project to supplement case finding efforts for select medical events in a timely manner using existing electronic data
Projects/Products
- Monthly NDRS report: A monthly report graphing medical event reports over time for the past year in order to track breakdowns and improvements in prevention/control measures. (.mil only)
- Weekly NDRS hot stuff: A weekly line list of Medical Event Reports reported over the past 30 days for Preventive Medicine review and action if needed. (Limited distribution)
- Influenza: Project to monitor and track seasonal influenza trends among Navy and Marine Corps beneficiaries
- Automated Medical Event Surveillance: Project evaluating the usefulness of laboratory data, outpatient encounter records, inpatient admissions for medical event surveillance. Efforts to evaluate Chlamydia in each of these datasets have begun.
- Fusarium: Project identifying Fusarium eye infections among DOD beneficiaries that may be related to the CDC's Fusarium keratitis investigation
Links of Interest
- Naval Disease Reporting System (NDRS)
- Preventive Medicine home page, including resources by topic
- Preventive Medicine and NMCPHC supported Policies and Directives
- NMCPHC Influenza
This page last updated on May 21, 2010.
Content last reviewed on March 3rd, 2009.
Content last reviewed on March 3rd, 2009.