PMID- 11413722
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20010719
LR  - 20171206
IS  - 0026-4075 (Print)
IS  - 0026-4075 (Linking)
VI  - 166
IP  - 6
DP  - 2001 Jun
TI  - Quality of deployment surveillance data in southwest Asia.
PG  - 475-9
AB  - The Global Expeditionary Medical System (GEMS), formerly known as Desert Care II, 
      provides clinical data on every medical encounter that occurs at U.S. Air Force 
      medical treatment facilities in theater. After 22 months of surveillance from 
      March 1997 to January 1999, 59,026 records were generated from 27,305 active duty 
      members. A random sample of 273 individuals were reviewed for four key fields: 
      chief complaint, diagnosis, International Classification of Diseases, 9th 
      Revision, code, and disease and nonbattle injury category. The vast majority (> 
      99%) of records were consistently classified and reported. An unrelated subset of 
      all cases categorized as "Medical/Other" seen at Prince Sultan Air Base (5,640 
      records) also were analyzed. Reassignment was made in 19% of cases into other 
      categories, suggesting that further refinement of disease and nonbattle injury 
      reporting is needed for effective deployment medical surveillance. Overall, this 
      electronic data-gathering system has high internal validity, consistency, and 
      reliability for service members in the deployed U.S. Air Force setting.
FAU - Morrow, R C
AU  - Morrow RC
AD  - Navy Environmental Health Center, Norfolk, VA 23513, USA.
FAU - Schafer, K O
AU  - Schafer KO
FAU - Williams, R L
AU  - Williams RL
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Mil Med
JT  - Military medicine
JID - 2984771R
SB  - IM
MH  - Asia
MH  - Databases, Factual/*standards
MH  - Humans
MH  - Medical Records/*standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Military Personnel/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Population Surveillance
MH  - Quality Control
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Software
MH  - United States
EDAT- 2001/06/21 10:00
MHDA- 2001/07/20 10:01
CRDT- 2001/06/21 10:00
PHST- 2001/06/21 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/07/20 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/06/21 10:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mil Med. 2001 Jun;166(6):475-9.