Performance Improvement (PI) Monitoring

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.