SUMMARY OF OUTPATIENT MORBIDITY SURVEILLANCE

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Subject: SUMMARY OF OUTPATIENT MORBIDITY SURVEILLANCE                    

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Parent Organization: HSC         

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Folder Title: OPERATION DESERT SHIELD DESERT STORM MEDICAL DATA                                               

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                                          DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
                                 HEADQUARTERS, 227TH MEDICAL DETACHMENT
                                            APO NEW YORK 09657



                  AFVH-XA-227-CO                                           4 March 1991



                  MEMORANDUM THR(J Commander, 74th Medical Detachment

                             THRIJ Surgeon, 44th Medical Brigade

                             THRU Commander, lst Corps Support Command

                               FOR Surgeon, XVIII Airborne Corps

                  SUBJECT: Summary of Outpatient Morbidity Surveillance


                  1. Surveillance of outpatient morbidity has been reported       on a
                  weekly basis since the end of December, but has often been
                  characterized by incomplete reporting or no reporting when       data
                  was fragmentary. Although much data is still missing, the        last
                  few weeks has brought in new data covering several months. A
                  summary of the outpatient morbidity surveillance is     herein
                  presented.

                  2. The two enclosures show tl)e numbers reported in     each of the
                  14 categories by week and by month. Rates for each      category are
                  also similarly grouped together. Below each week's      data is an
                  estimate of the completeness of the data collection     for that
                  particular time period. The estimates are based on      the number of
                  reporting units during a particular week and the usual proportion
                  of the total number that a given individual unit usually
                  reported. Using the weekly estimates of completeness of data the
                  overall completeness of data is estimated to be 70%.

                  3. Completeness of reporting showed the following pattern:

ng September through mid-November
                  averaged between 60-709.

                       b. Starting in mid-November through the first week of
                  January the reporting is close to complete. Only such units as
                  some non-divisional brigades have not submitted their reports.

                       c. During mid-January the reporting fell dramatically to
                  only about 259 of the probable total., This time frame
                  corresponds to the time when field units and medical units moved
                  north into field positions. Exact locations of units were
                  unclear and telephone communications were very poor.

                       d. As units became settled and communications improved, the
                  reporting improved to the 50-65% level.

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