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The systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of medical care to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being met.
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Events or incidents that may result in an individual experiencing a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or concussion.
Any member of the Armed Forces, civilian employee of the Department of Defense, or personal services contract employee under Title 10, United States Code, Section ...
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Any medical treatment facility or, dental treatment facility This includes garrison clinics and such facilities in a military operational unit, ship, or aircraft, and any other person or organization outside of such facilities' workforce who ...
Notes recorded, in any medium, by a health care provider who is a mental health professional documenting or analyzing the contents of conversation during a private, group, joint, or family counseling session and that are separated from the ...
The physical region that includes the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, United States possessions and territories, and surrounding territorial waters and airspace.
The regular or repeated collection, analysis, and interpretation of health related data and the dissemination of information to monitor the health of a population and to identify potential risks to health, thereby enabling timely interventions ...
An executive information system whose database contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and medical events (e.g., hospitalizations, ambulatory visits, reportable diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus tests, acute respiratory ...
A repository used for the identification, prevention, and control of diseases associated with military and DoD-EC service. The mission of the DoDSR for medical surveillance is for future clinical diagnosis and sero-epidemiologic studies.
Health surveillance conducted throughout Service members’ military careers and DoD civilian employees’ employment, across all duty locations, and encompassing risk, intervention, and outcome data. Such surveillance is ...
The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data derived from instances of medical care or medical evaluation, and the reporting of population based information for characterizing and countering threats to a population ...
The regular or repeated collection, analysis, archiving, interpretation, and dissemination of occupational and environmental health-related data for monitoring the health of, or potential health hazard impact on, a population and individual ...
For the purpose of this Instruction, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment.
A mental health professional with training and expertise in COSC management who consults with the Combatant Command Surgeon and the Combatant Commander about matters related to combat stress such as unit cohesion, unit morale, resilience, ...
Indicated prevention - Interventions targeted to Service members with COSR or indications of a potential mental health disorder, and to units that show signs that their mission effectiveness is being affected by combat or operational stressors ...
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