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BUMEDINST 6220.12A
Medical Event Reports
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| BUMEDINST 6220.12A Medical Event Reports applies to who? | All ships, stations and units providing outpatient or inpatient medical care |
| What instruction includes monitoring of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE)? | BUMEDINST 6220.12 Medical Event Reporting |
| Why are MER’s required for select diseases and injuries? | Due to their potential to compromise operational readiness, present hazards, result in quarantine, or generate inquiries. |
| A successful medical surveillance program depends on what? | Regular monitoring of trends and early notification of suspected or confirmed medical events. |
| ESSENCE monitoring responsibilities should be assigned to a minimum of how many MTF staff? | Two |
| ESSENCE monitoring shall occur how often? | At least once each routine workday. |
| Who should be contacted to control disease outbreaks or to investigate unusual health related conditions? | Regional NEPMU (Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit) |
| Who evaluates the Navy’s event surveillance program effectiveness annually? | NMCPHC (Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center’s) |
| Who publishes quarterly MER analyses that examine Navy and Marine Corps disease trends? | NMCPHC (Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center’s) |
| Who shall submit an MER? | The medical department of the command with primary responsibility for the health of the affected individual. |
| What is defined as the occurrence, in a community or region, of cases of an illness or other health-related events in excess of normal expectancy? | An outbreak |
| For commands that do not have adequate internet access what should be used to report MER’s? | The Medical Event Reporting module in SAMS. |
| Files submitted through SAMS should be uploaded how often? | Weekly |
| All MER’s sent via message traffic must be identified by what report control symbol? | NAVMED 6220-3 in the subject line |
| Routine MER’s must be submitted within how many days of diagnoses? | 30 days |
| Report all suspected outbreaks as soon as possible and within how many hours? | 24 hours |
| How many reports should be submitted for clusters of individually reportable diagnoses? | One outbreak report |
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