Performance Improvement (PI) Monitoring

POPULATION OF INTEREST

All MWDs with diagnosis of arachnid (spider or scorpion) or snake bite.

INTENT (EXPECTED OUTCOMES)

- Recovery from bite incident.
- No evidence of organ injury (sustained kidney injury, etc.)
- No long-term morbidity from wound occurrence and subsequent management.

PERFORMANCE/ADHERENCE MEASURES

- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that sustained arachnid or snake bites.
  - Specify what type of bite if information is available.
- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that required sustained wound management (> 7 days) because of arachnid or snake bite.
- Number and percentage of patients in the population of interest (deployed MWDs) that recovered from arachnid or snake bites.
  - Number and percentage of MWDs that returned to duty versus those that were medically retired following the bite event or that died as result of the bite incident.

DATA SOURCE

- Patient Record
- Department of Defense Military Working Dog 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.