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1
Q

Which reference defines medical surveillance?

A

DoD Directive 6490.02E

2
Q

What are the two types of surveillance and reporting covered this manual?

A

Reportable Medical Event (RME); Syndromic and Categorical injury

3
Q

Which type of events, usually disease or etiologic agent specific, may pose an inherent, significant threat to public health and military operations?

A

Reportable Medical Event (RME)

4
Q

What have the potential to affect large numbers of people, to be widely transmitted within a population, to have severe/life threatening clinical manifestations, and/or disrupt military training and deployment?

A

Reportable Medical Event (RME)

5
Q

What publishes the agreed upon Reportable Medical Events (RME) list along with specific case definitions as the Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events Guidelines and Case Definitions?

A

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

6
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Reportable Medical Events (RMEs) are commonly referred to as?

A

Medical Event Reports (MERs)

7
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Which instruction requires any medical event that meets the case definition of a reportable event to be reported

A

BUMEDINST 6220.12

8
Q

When submitting Medical Event Reports (MERs) of outbreaks or disease clusters, reporters need not include identifying information about individual patients or file a MER for each individual case unless instructed by who?

A

Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit (NEPMU)

9
Q

Urgent medical event reports are required within how many hours for some events?

A

24 hours

10
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How many calendar days must routine reports for all non-urgent medical events be submitted after their identification?

A

7 days

11
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What is the Navy’s official system to submit, view and track Medical Event Reports?

A

Disease Reporting System Internet (DRSi)

12
Q

If reporters are affected by connectivity limitations, Medical Event Reports (MERs) may be made by what communication means?

A

Phone, naval message, or e-mail to the nearest Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit (NEPMU)

13
Q

For the prevention of disease and reporting of communicable disease, regulations promulgated by the Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy’s Manual of the Medical Department mandate that all Navy Medical Officers will cooperate with the what agencies?

A

Public Health Services and other Federal, State, and local agencies

14
Q

Which type of surveillance involves monitoring the incidence of specific pre-diagnostic syndromes and injury occurring in specific populations to identify important clusters of disease/injury at the earliest time possible?

A

Syndromic and Categorical Injury Surveillance

15
Q

Syndromic and Categorical Injury Surveillance is also known as?

A

Disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) surveillance

16
Q

Base off of new guidance Disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) surveillance is imply referred to as?

A

D&I surveillance

17
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What is performed either electronically or manually depending on a unit’s ability to complete and transmit healthcare encounter records to central Military Health System (MHS) data repositories?

A

D&I surveillance

18
Q

What is the preferred D&I surveillance and reporting method that involves the analysis and monitoring of D&I related information stored in Military Health System (MHS) data repositories with the aid of analytic systems such as Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE), the Joint Medical Workstation, or the Theater Medical Data Store web interface?

A

Electronic D&I Surveillance and Report method

19
Q

Which program will be used to compile and submit manual reports of their unit’s D&I information to the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC)?

A

Microsoft Excel

20
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For manual reporting, how will you name the Microsoft (MS) Excel spreadsheet file before submitting your weekly report?

A

unitname.xls

21
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In general, the classification of Medical Event Reports (MERs) are considered?

A

unclassified

22
Q

Before releasing the report, reports who are concerned that a the report from their unit might have an adverse impact on their unit’s operational security or our national security should consult who for report classification?

A

Information Security/CO

23
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All Medical Event Reports (MERs) and D&I reports contain sensitive medical information, so all reports made through email should be?

A

Digitally signed and encrypted

24
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What are the Navy’s primary consultative resource for disease/outbreak confirmation and response assistance including implementation of prevention and control measures?

A

Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Units (NEPMUs)

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