POPULATION OF INTEREST

All MWDs with diagnosis of ocular injuries.

INTENT (EXPECTED OUTCOMES)

- Survival from mechanism of ocular injury.
- Maintained structural integrity of the globe and associated cranial structures.
- Maintained visual integrity.
- Proper documentation of ocular injury event in MWDs medical record.

PERFORMANCE / ADHERENCE MEASURES

- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that sustained an ocular injury.
  - Document how many of these MWD were wearing protective eyewear.
- Specify what component of the eye was injured, if possible.
  - Internal structures (such as lens, retina).
  - Globe (such as sclera, cornea).
  - Periocular tissues (such as conjunctiva, third eyelid).
  - Orbit (bony structures).
- Number and percentage of patients that required follow-on specialty ophthalmology care, if known.
- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that recovered from ocular injury event.
  - Number and percentage of MWDs that returned to duty versus those that were medically retired following the ocular injury event.

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.