Performance Improvement (PI) Monitoring

POPULATION OF INTEREST

All MWDs with diagnosis of heat injury.

INTENT (EXPECTED OUTCOMES)

- Recovery from heat injury.
- No evidence of organ injury (sustained CNS abnormalities, kidney or other organ compromise).
- Proper documentation of heat injury event in MWDs medical record.

PERFORMANCE / ADHERENCE MEASURES

- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that sustained heat injury.
- Specify whether mild, moderate or severe, if possible.
- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that recovered from heat injury event.
- Number and percentage of MWDs that returned to duty versus those that were medically retired following the heat 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.