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A Standardized Approach to Department of Defense Medical Surveillance of Injuries: Initial Objectives of the Military Injuries Working Group, 2019-2022 : Defense Centers for Public Health, Injury Prevention , June 7 , 2023

June 7, 2023

Defense Centers for Public Health, Injury Prevention

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From the document: "The Defense Safety and Oversight Council (DSOC) Military Injuries Working Group (MIWG) was formed in 2019, some of the objectives of which were to establish a unified Department of Defense (DoD) injury definition, create standardized medical injury surveillance reporting tools, and explore Service-level injuries to recommend DoD solutions to improve injury reporting. This document reflects initial efforts of the MIWG, accomplished between calendar years (CY) 2019 through 2022, while under the chairmanship of U.S. Army Public Health Center (APHC) (now known as the Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen (DCPH-A)) public health scientists.

This technical information paper documents the injury definition, standardized medical injury surveillance reporting format, and medical cause-coding guidance recommended by the DSOC MIWG. The injury definition includes specified International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) injury diagnosis codes, and the standardized reporting format is demonstrated with CY 2018 Active-Duty (AD) Service member (SM) electronic health record (EHR) data. This report also describes the comparison between medical injury data and CY 2018 safety incident reporting data."

Authors - Chervak, Michelle, Renner, Anna, Jones, Bruce

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Chervak, Michelle, Renner, Anna, Jones, Bruce

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