摘要: The Naval Health Research Center has initiated an effort to compute the Disease and Non-Battle Injury (DNBI) rates needed to determine the medical requirements for Navy and Marine Corps personnel afloat and ashore. A data base has... 展开 The Naval Health Research Center has initiated an effort to compute the Disease and Non-Battle Injury (DNBI) rates needed to determine the medical requirements for Navy and Marine Corps personnel afloat and ashore. A data base has been compiled which includes information on all hospital admissions since 1965, information on outpatient visits, monthly morbidity reports, service history data, environment data, and employment information. In addition, more outpatient data are being collected with a Patient Encounter Report designed to document specific diagnoses, treatments, and the disposition of each patient. These data will be used to document current DNBI rates and project rates for situations where no data are available, to extrapolate geographic and temporal trends, and estimate the effect of different levels of combat intensity. The approach taken in this effort started by specifying the population in terms of a person's duty station. Therefore, determination of population strengths, which is often a problem, can be accomplished by extracting information from available service history records. Keywords: Disease and non-battle injury; Medical planning; Illness estimation; DNBI; Patients. (jg) 收起