DHA Sustainability Focus, March 2024
The DHA Sustainability Program quarterly newsletter for Spring 2024. Highlights include Practice Greenhealth, CleanMed, Earth Day 2024, and spotlight on sustainability.
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The DHA Sustainability Program quarterly newsletter for Spring 2024. Highlights include Practice Greenhealth, CleanMed, Earth Day 2024, and spotlight on sustainability.
This clinical recommendation provides medical staff with a single, comprehensive reference for the assessment and management of dizziness and visual disturbances following mild TBI/concussion. Dizziness and visual disturbances often present with overlapping symptoms and should prompt a provider to perform a visual and dizziness—or vestibular—assessment.
This clinical recommendation is an evidence-based return to activity protocol for primary care managers and concussion/traumatic brain injury clinic providers. The PRA is a six-step approach that begins after the provider performs the MACE 2 (Military Acute Concussion Evaluation 2) and the patient is diagnosed with a concussion, also known as a mild TBI.
The recommended coursework and competencies to administer vaccines within the DoD.
This TBICoE clinical recommendation allows primary care managers to make an informed, evidenced-based decision regarding whether or not imaging is indicated following a concussion/mild TBI.
The clinical pearls are a concise one-page document that serves as a quick reference for military clinicians treating service members with a mild TBI who may present with suicidal ideation.
A checklist to assess competency of health care personnel administering immunizations, including COVID-19 vaccine.
The Defense Health Agency Patient Safety Program is aligned to Health Care Administration, Medical Affairs, Clinical Support Division, under Clinical Quality Management. Our mission is to promote a culture of safety to end preventable patient harm by engaging, educating, and equipping patient-care teams to put evidence-based safe practices in place ...
The Department of Defense cannot conduct all Graduate Medical Education training at Defense Health Agency facilities, as the DHA does not have the clinical capability at all locations (e.g., burn patients) or the volume of patients is insufficient. DHA GME programs use local civilian hospitals and Veterans Affairs hospitals to meet training requirements.
The Defense Health Agency Medical Affairs Directorate supports three major programs for separating Service members with wounds from military service including inTransition, Recovery Coordination Program, and the Integrated Disability Evaluation System.
The Department of Defense identified the need to develop a program to eliminate variability in patient health outcomes, provide consistent quality of care and utilization of resources, and improve the quality of health care services delivered within the DOD.
The Rehabilitation Journey After Lower Limb Amputation – 100 page patient education handbook – covers the various phases of amputation rehabilitation.
Immunization standing orders are approved protocols that authorize appropriately trained health care personnel to assess patient immunization status and administer vaccinations without a written provider order or examination.
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Storage and Handling Label
Armed Forces Medical Examiner System guidelines for submission of toxicology analysis.
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