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.