ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES 10 MAR 95

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Subject: ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES  10 MAR 95                           

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Folder Title: ODS MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE OF XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS                                                

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                                       ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
                             DEPARTMENT OF PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES
                                 COMMUNITY HEALTH PRACTICES BRANCH


           MCCS-HPC                                                                    10 March 1995


           LTC Glenn M. Wasserman, MC
           WRAIR PM Residency Program



           1. Per your request about the ODS medical surveillance data that I still have. My surveillance
           was for outpatient conditions for the XVIII Airborne Corps. The data was compiled from the
           following units:

                  a. 1 st Medical Group (hospitals, clearing stations, medical battalion aid stations)
                  b. 62d Medical Group (hospitals, clearing stations, medical battalion aid stations),
                  c. 24th ID/ I 97th Inf Bde
                  d. I st Cavalry Division (until they joined VII Corps)
                  e. 82d Airborne Division
                  f. IO 1 st Airmobile Division
                  g. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment

           2. Unit strengths were compiled for each major command in XVIII Corps on a weekly basis
           from headquarters of the Corps. I am sending you the sheets which show weekly troop strength.
           They are incomplete only because I cannot find the rest (weeks 4-17, 23). 1 had them at one time
           and they were used to compute rates. The unit strength was always on a Wednesday so as to best
           represent the average weekly unit strength. These sheets were actually done daily, and I chose
           Wednesday as a weekly strength approximation.

           3. Pay attention to the lower left hand comer: rates vs adjusted rates. How did I adjust rates?
           I did not get data from each unit for every week. I used the rates from the weeks in which I had
           fairly complete data and estimated the percentage of the probable total for the weeks in which I
ata. My adjusted rates are what would have been IF the
           expected number of cases of disease had occurred in the units not reporting. For example, look
           at the chart which compares TOTAL disease rates Actual and Adjusted. Notice that in much of
           the chart the two are close because I had fairly complete reporting. In October/November and
           again in late February there is a significant gap because the reporting was much less than
           complete. For instance, the ' )rd week of February the adjusted rate is twice that of the actual rate
           because units representing about half of the corps strength reported in.

           4. 1 am sending you the charts I used to display my data.

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