All Active Component and Selected Reserve military Service members.

A medical condition or physical defect of a member that appears to be cause for referral into the Disability Evaluation System in accordance with DoD Instruction 1332.38, “Physical Disability Evaluation,” November 14, 1996, as amended or for a designation as non-deployable for a period longer than 90 days.

A medical assessment tool used to evaluate and document a Service member’s medical condition and deployability status. It is the cornerstone of force health protection as it is an opportunity for medical providers to identify medical concerns, educate Service members as to their medical condition, and refer Service members for further care as indica...

The percentage of those Service members available to deploy who are fully or partially medically ready. Includes all Service members not excluded in paragraph 1f on Enclosure 3 of this instruction.

A means to assess an individual Service member’s, or larger cohort’s, readiness level against established metrics applied to key elements of health and fitness to determine medical deployability in support of contingency operations.

Physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, advanced practice nurse, independent duty corpsman, independent duty medical technician, independent health services technician, or Special Forces medical sergeant.

The part of a fraction that is below the line and that functions as the divisor of the numerator.

A certificate issued to a laboratory to perform only waived tests.

Non-compliance with one or more condition level requirements.

The documents that constitute evidence of qualifying education, training, licensure, certification, experience, and expertise of health care providers. It includes professional qualifications such as a professional degree, post-graduate training and education, board certification, and licensure, etc.

Any of the requirements identified as “conditions” in section 7 and sections 10 - 20 of Enclosure 3 of DoDM 6440.02.

The material that is to be tested by the participants in the PT program.

Includes any political subdivision to which the State has expressly delegated powers sufficient to enable it to enforce requirements equal to or more stringent than CLIA requirements.

Any test system, assay, or examination that has not been found to meet the statutory criteria for waived (waived) tests, i.e., moderate complexity tests (including the subcategory of provider-performed microscopy procedures) and high complexity tests.

A value or range of values for a performance characteristic, established or verified by the laboratory, that is used to describe the quality of patient test results.