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18 Cards in this Set
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Which instruction covers medical surveillance and notifiable event reporting?
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BUMEDINST 6220.12
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What is the purpose of the medical surveillance and notifiable event reporting?
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To provide policy concerning Navy medical surveillance practices, processes, and reporting requirements.
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What system is used to monitor the reporting of an MER.
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Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE).
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ESSENCE monitoring responsibilities should be assigned to a minimum of how many MTF staff?
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TWO (2).
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How many times will ESSENCE monitoring occur?
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At least once each routine workday.
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MER should be submitted when?
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A reportable medical event is suspected or confirmed.
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What system does the Navy use to submit an MER?
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Navy Disease Reporting System, internet (NDRSi).
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Who provides regional technical oversight for ESSENCE monitoring, reportable medical event surveillance, and outbreak response and coordination?
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Navy Environmental & Preventive Medicine Unit (NEPMUs).
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When does the Navy evaluate it's medical event surveillance program for effectiveness.
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Annually.
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When is the Navy and Marine Corps disease trends MER analyses published?
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Quarterly.
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The MER is assigned a report control symbol of?
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NAVMED 6220-3.
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The requirement to submit MERs extends to who?
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All beneficiaries active duty personnel, civilian mariners, eligible family members, retirees, and reservists on active duty.
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When must a medical departments providing inpatient or outpatient medical care submit a MER?
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Notified of a significant communicable disease outbreak among the military or civilian population, which may impact the health and readiness of military personnel.
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Which is the preferred method for submitting MERs?
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Navy Disease Reporting System, internet (NDRSi)
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What are some methods of reporting an MER?
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SAMS, Naval messages or standard correspondance, telephone or email.
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All MERs sent via message traffic must be identified by report control symbol _______ in the subject line.
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NAVMED 6220-3.
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Timeliness of reporting is limited to?
Routine______. Urgent______. |
Routine 30 days.
Urgent 24 hours. |
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The following events are required to be reported within 24 hours:
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Amebiasis, Anthrax, Biological Warfare Agent exposure, Botulism, Cholera, Dengue fever, E.coli, Encephalitis Arboviral and Tick-borne, Hantavirus Infection, Hemorrhagic Fever, Legionellosis, Malaria, Measles, Meningococcal Disease, Pertussis, Plague, Q Fever, Rabies (Clinical human), Smallpox, Tuberculosis pulmonary, Tularemia, Typhoid Fever, Typhus Fever, Yellow Fever, OutBreaks.
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