Performance Improvement (PI) Monitoring

POPULATION OF INTEREST

All MWDs with an open wound.

INTENT (EXPECTED OUTCOMES)

- Recovery from wound.
- No identified antibiotic resistance bacteria.
- Proper documentation of wound treatment in the MWD medical record.

PERFORMANCE / ADHERENCE MEASURES

- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that sustained an open wound injury.
  - Number of MWDs that received primary closure for the wound.
  - Number of MWDs that received delayed closure (either secondary or tertiary). Length of time before closure (secondary) or complete healing (tertiary).
- Number and percentage of MWDs that returned to duty.

DATA SOURCE

- Patient Record
- Department of Defense MWD Trauma Registry

SYSTEM REPORTING & FREQUENCY

The above constitutes the minimum criteria for PI monitoring of this K9 CPG. System reporting will be performed annually; additional PI monitoring and system reporting may be performed as needed.

The system review and data analysis will be performed by direction of the K9C4 Chair.